Egypt : News

[Aswat Masriya]Egypt's High Constitutional Court has set June 2 to announce its verdict on the dissolution of the Shura Council and constitution-writing assembly. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]A Cairo criminal court will hear on Sunday the case of former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly over graft charges worth EGP 181 million. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Egypt's High Constitutional Court will hear on Sunday the cases of dissolving the upper house of parliament and the constitution-writing assembly. (AllAfrica)

[CAF]The symposium for the analysis of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations (Gabon and Equatorial Guinea 2012 and South Africa 2013) opened on Saturday in Cairo, Egypt. The symposium is organized by CAF with a number of the coaches who participated with their teams in the two mentioned editions attending. CAF deputy secretary general Mr. Essam Ahmed presented CAF Vice president Mr. Suketu Patel to open the symposium, in the presence of Mr. Jurg Nepfer from FIFA and Leodegar Tenga, CAF Executive Committee member. (AllAfrica)

[CAF]Fran Hilton-Smith is the technical director of South Africa football association, and she's a CAF and FIFA instructor. She's currently in Cairo to attend the Symposium for the analysis of Orange CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2012 and 2013. She spoke to Cafonline.com. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Egypt's Cassation Court has annulled a sentence to imprison businessman Ahmed Ezz for seven years and fine him EGP 19 billion over money laundering. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]A Cairo criminal court adjourned the trial of Alaa and Gamal Mubarak on Sunday in the case of stock market manipulation to June 9 to hear further testimonies and have the prosecution present complete investigations. (AllAfrica)

[Zimbabwe Standard]ZIMBABWE has been seeded second at the 2013 Africa Zone Davis Cup Group III tournament, which begins at Cairo's Smash Tennis Academy in Egypt on Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]A Coptic Christian man who was accused of attempting to kill his wife for converting to Islam died on Sunday upon jumping off the fourth floor of an Assiut court before his trial. (AllAfrica)

[SPS]Cairo -The Saharawi students in the Arab Republic of Egypt celebrated Friday evening the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Spanish acronym; POLISARIO). (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Egypt's top prosecutor on Saturday issued a release order for political activist Ahmed Maher, reported Al Jazeera. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]The Egyptian security services on Saturday arrested members of a terrorist organization that were planning to carry out attacks in Cairo and Alexandria, said a senior-level security source. (AllAfrica)

[AI London]A Coptic Christian teacher detained in Egypt on charges of "defamation of religion" must be immediately released and the criminal case against her dropped, said Amnesty International today, ahead of her appearance in court on Saturday. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]President Mohamed Mursi returned to Cairo on Friday after a historical three-day visit to Brazil. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Egyptian police forces at Cairo International Airport detained activist Ahmed Maher upon his return from the United States of America on Friday, activists said. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed on Friday ways to increase the size of trade exchange between the two countries. (AllAfrica)

[UN News]Expressing concern about key legislative measures being considered by Egyptian authorities, the United Nations human rights chief today urged the Government to take steps to ensure it does not drift further away from the ideals that drove the 2011 revolution in the country. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Authorities at Cairo International Airport detained political activist Ahmed Maher, a founding member of the "April 6" movement, upon his arrival from the United States of America on Friday, sources at the airport said. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]High winds and dust storms obscuring vision caused Boghaz al-Borollos and al-Sayd seaports to close on Friday in Kafr al-Sheikh governorate. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]April 6 movement called for rallying in front of the public security headquarters and Cairo International Airport after political activist Ahmed Maher was detained at the airport upon his return from the United States of America on Friday. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Head of Cairo's Criminal Court Judge Mahmoud Kamel al-Rashidi allowed the Egyptian state television to air former president Hosni Mubarak's retrial proceedings on Saturday. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]The Popular Current reaffirms its support for al-Azhar's Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, said founder of the front Hamdeen Sabahi. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Nobel Laureate and prominent opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei said on his Twitter account on Thursday that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' assessment on Egypt proves that the Egyptian government has "lost its connection with the revolution." (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros arrived at Vatican City in the first visit of an Egyptian pope to the Catholic Church in 40 years on Thursday. (AllAfrica)

[EOHR]The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) denounces torturing Mohamed Al Sayed in Shobra Thani Police Station. In this regard, EOHR calls upon the prosecutor general and the Egyptian Minister of interior to open an immediate investigation on the severe physical torture incident that severely threatens the rule of law and the earnings of the revolution. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil arrived on Friday morning in Turkey for a two-day visit to attend the annual summit of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]President Mohamed Mursi invited Brazilian businessmen to invest in Egypt, the presidential spokesman's Facebook page reported. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]A Cairo criminal court approved on Thursday the release of 11 Black Bloc members who were arrested last month in light of confrontations by the high court, rejecting a challenge to their release by another court. (AllAfrica)

[Aswat Masriya]Egyptian authorities arrested singer Hatem Fahmy on Thursday over allegations that he conned people through the web. (AllAfrica)

[State Department]Excerpt from the United States Department of State daily press briefing: (AllAfrica)

Police in Egypt have arrested members of an al-Qaeda-linked cell that plotted to carry out a suicide bombing against a Western embassy and other targets in the country, the interior minister has said. Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said that the police have delivered a successful blow against a terror cell plotting suicide bomb attacks, including a plot to attack a Western embassy which was ... (Arab Herald)