Muslim Brotherhood threatens demos if poll fraud found
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood, the biggest winner in the first round of Egypt's elections, has threatened to take to the streets if there is any attempt to manipulate results. The…
Egyptian border guards kill African migrant
EL-ARISH: A security official says Egyptian police have shot dead an African migrant and wounded three others near the border with Israel. The security official says the four men, all…
Police detain Shias at Cairo shrine
CAIRO: Police detained seven people celebrating the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura on Monday in front of the Hussein Mosque in Cairo's Islamic quarter, a security source said. The detained…
Low turnout at Qasr El-Nil polling stations
CAIRO: Qasr El-Nil polling stations witnessed a low voter turnout on the first day of run-off elections as four candidates battle for two individual seat. Two of the candidates belong…
FJP, Al-Nour face off in run-offs amid low turnout
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) faced off Monday in the run-offs with the Salafi (ultra conservative) Al-Nour Party as they both competed to snatch more individual…
Appeals Court rejects request to release activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah
CAIRO: The Appeals Court rejected Monday a request to release activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, remanded in custody since Oct. 30 pending investigations into the Maspero clashes. The activist’s lawyers lodged the…
Egypt revises down election turnout to 52 pct
CAIRO: The election committee on Monday lowered its turnout figure for the opening phase of Egypt's first election since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, revising it to 52 percent from…
Fierce competition among Islamists in Alexandria run-off
CAIRO: The run-off of the first round of parliamentary elections in Alexandria, where 16 are contesting eight individual seats, witnessed fierce competition among Islamist candidates. The Islamists have secured five…
Employees not needed in run-offs demand second half of bonus
CAIRO: Councilor Abdel-Moez Ibrahim, head of the Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC), said in a press conference Thursday that some of the employees overseeing the voting process in the first round…
Heliopolis voters choose between FJP and ‘felool’
CAIRO: Text messages circulated among the residents of the Heliopolis constituency saying “Protect Heliopolis from former members of the regime…we won’t vote from Hisham Soliman, member of the dissolved party’s…