- 11:57 13/05/2012 CAIRO, May 13 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt’s Constitution should be based on the Koran and Sharia law, presidential candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement Mohamed Morsi said.
- 11:57 05/05/2012
At least 130 people were injured in clashes between Egyptian armed forces and protesters in Cairo on Friday, the state news agency reported.
- 21:41 02/05/2012 CAIRO, May 2 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt's military is ready to hand over power to a new president after the first round of the vote on May 24, Egyptian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Sami Anan said on Wednesday.
- 13:07 02/05/2012 CAIRO, May 2 (RIA Novosti)
Five people died and dozens were injured on early Wednesday during riots outside the Defense Ministry in the center of Cairo, Egypt’s Health Ministry reported.
- 01:06 29/04/2012 CAIRO, April 28 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) and leaders of the country’s major parties have agreed on the make-up of the commission to draft a new constitution, the MENA news agency reported.
- 05:23 20/04/2012 CAIRO, April 20 (RIA Novosti)
A mass demonstration with most liberal and Islamist parties and movements participating is expected to be held on Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Friday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
- 18:16 13/04/2012 CAIRO, April 13 (RIA Novosti)
Thousands of Egyptians from Islamist movements took to the streets in Cairo to protest against former allies of ousted President Hosni Mubarak running for president.
- 04:43 05/04/2012 WASHINGTON, April 5 (RIA Novosti)
White House and other U.S. officials met with representatives of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement in Washington earlier this week, U.S. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said.
- 01:21 05/04/2012 CAIRO, April 5 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt’s ruling military council has reiterated its pledge to hand over power in the country to a civilian leader following the next month’s presidential vote.
- 12:09 01/04/2012 CAIRO, April 1 (RIA Novosti) –
The Arab Commission for Human Rights called on Egypt to join the Arab Charter on Human Rights adopted by the Arab League in 2004, Egyptian television EGYnews said on its website.
- 22:03 29/02/2012 CAIRO, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt will hold its presidential election on May 23-24, Farouk Sultan, the head of the county’s election commission, said on Wednesday.
- 05:01 26/02/2012 CAIRO, February 26 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt’s Islamist parties have won the majority of seats the upper house of parliament, the Shura Council, the country’s election authorities said.
- 11:27 24/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 24 (RIA Novosti)
Three men armed with rifles attacked Egyptian Presidential Candidate Abdelmoneim Abul Fotouh and stole his car on Thursday evening, his campaign manager Ali al-Bahnasawy said.
- 15:11 06/02/2012
Egyptian security forces are facing another wave of protests in Cairo. This RIA Novosti video shows police trying to disperse rioters near the Interior Ministry building in downtown Cairo.
- 15:34 05/02/2012
Clashes between protesters and police have swept the central streets of the Egyptian capital in the past few days.
- 12:36 03/02/2012
Over a hundred people were injured in clashes between Egyptian youth and police during a rally in central Cairo.
- 14:02 31/01/2012 CAIRO, January 31 (RIA Novosti)
The Islamist Freedom and Justice Party stands to win up to 60 percent of the seats in the Egyptian parliament’s upper house, according to preliminary election results quoted by the party in a statement issued on Tuesday.
- 04:15 29/01/2012 CAIRO, January 29 (RIA Novosti)
The first round of elections to the upper house of parliament, the Consultative Council, will take place in Egypt on Sunday and Monday, and the second will follow on February 14 and 15, Supreme Election Commission head Abdel Moez Ibrahim was quoted as saying on the Al Ahram website.
- 06:49 27/01/2012 CAIRO, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Hundreds of protesters gathered on early Friday morning near the Egyptian state television and radio building in Cairo, Nile News television channel reported.
- 19:13 26/01/2012 CAIRO, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak did not order troops to fire on protesters during nationwide riots in 2011, former Interior Minister Habiba el-Adly said, the news portal Ash-Shuruk reported on Thursday.
- 13:12 26/01/2012
Flip-flops with a portrait of former president Hosni Mubarak have been snapped up on the anniversary of the revolution in Egypt. Protesters who gathered in Tahrir Square on January 25 bought flags, badges, multi-colored Panama hats and stickers.
- 18:13 25/01/2012 CAIRO, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
Thousands of Egyptians gathered on Wednesday on Cairo's central Tahrir Square to meet the first anniversary of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
- 16:35 25/01/2012
The anti-government Day of Wrath rally held on January 25, 2011, triggered public disturbances across Egypt. Since then, Cairo and other Egyptian cities saw many mass riots and clashes, which eventually led to a change of power in the country.
- 16:01 25/01/2012 Political commentator Andrei Murtazin exclusively for RIA Novosti
On January 25, 2011 mass demonstrations began in Cairo and Alexandria, leading to the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February and the transfer of power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) headed by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
- 20:22 24/01/2012 CAIRO, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
The 30-year-long state of emergency in Egypt will be lifted from Wednesday, the head of the country’s ruling military council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, said on Tuesday.
- 04:18 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), which ruled Egypt since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, delegated legislative and monitoring powers to parliament, the MENA news agency said on Tuesday.
- 07:37 22/01/2012 CAIRO, January 22 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt’s Islamist parties have won an overwhelming victory at the first parliamentary polls since last year’s uprising which led to the fall of the Hosni Mubarak regime
- 02:53 15/01/2012 CAIRO, January 15 (RIA Novosti)
Ex-IAEA chief and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei pulled out of the race for the Egyptian presidency due to dissatisfaction with the current military rule.
- 15:29 13/01/2012 CAIRO, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt’s Islamist parties, the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Salafi Nour party have so far secured 71 percent of the votes at the first post-revolution parliamentary elections, the Al-Masry Al-Youm reported on Friday.
- 12:49 07/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 7 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it was concerned about the calls of the prosecutor at the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to sentence the former leader to death by hanging.
- 17:58 05/01/2012 CAIRO, January 5 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt’s Prosecutors General’s Office demanded on Thursday a death sentence for the Egyptian ex-president, Hosni Mubarak, the country’s former interior minister and six other defendants, Egyptian state news agency, MENA reported.
- 04:36 03/01/2012 CAIRO, January 3 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt prepares for the third and final round of elections to the lower house of the country’s parliament that will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
- 19:09 02/01/2012 CAIRO, January 2 (RIA Novosti)
Trial of Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak his sons and former interior minister will be held every day, Egyptian media reported.
- 20:36 29/12/2011 CAIRO, December 29 (RIA Novosti)
Cairo Criminal Court has exonerated five policemen accused in the deadly shooting of protesters during the nationwide uprising last winter.
- 05:44 19/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 19 (RIA Novosti)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned excessive use of force against protestors in Egypt
- 19:57 07/12/2011 CAIRO, December 7 (RIA Novosti)
The new Egyptian cabinet led by Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri was sworn in before the head of the country’s ruling military council on Wednesday, the local MENA news agency reported.
- 14:52 30/11/2011 CAIRO, November 30 (RIA Novosti)
Preliminary indications suggest the Freedom and Justice Party, created by the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and the Salafi Nour Party are leading in most of the provinces where Egyptian parliamentary elections were held, an Egyptian newspaper reported on Wednesday.
- 21:34 28/11/2011
People have formed unprecedented long lines at voting stations during the first stage of the parliamentary elections that started in Egypt on Monday.
- 05:44 28/11/2011 CAIRO, November 28 (RIA Novosti)
Parliamentary elections will begin in Egypt on Monday, the first since the January 25 uprising which led to the fall of the Hosni Mubarak regime.
- 15:33 25/11/2011 CAIRO, November 25 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt's ruling military council said in a statement it appointed Kamal al-Ganzouri the country's new prime minister on Friday and charged him with forming a cabinet.
- 05:00 25/11/2011 CAIRO, November 25 (RIA Novosti)
Caroline Sinz, a journalist for French TV channel France 3, was sexually assaulted on Thursday in central Cairo’s Tahrir Square
- 23:48 24/11/2011 CAIRO, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
Former Egyptian prime minister Kamal Ganzouri agreed on Thursday to a request by the ruling military council to form a new government, the Al Jazeera TV channel said.
- 11:52 24/11/2011 CAIRO, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
The Egyptian Ministry of the Interior has warned protesters that criminal gangs may seek to provoke violence at Tahrir Square in central Cairo, Al-Ahram reported on Thursday.
- 04:50 24/11/2011 CAIRO, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
Egyptian interior minister said on Thursday that the November 28 parliamentary elections should be postponed, contrary to a previous statement by the ruling military council's chairman, Al Jazeera reported.
- 20:02 23/11/2011 CAIRO, November 23 (RIA Novosti)
At least 35 people have died in clashes between protesters and security forces in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the country's health ministry said on Wednesday.
- 15:18 23/11/2011
Clashes between protesters and police in downtown Cairo have continued for five days.
- 13:27 23/11/2011 CAIRO, November 23 (RIA Novosti)
Investigators from the Egyptian Prosecutor General’s Office have started questioning security officers and protesters over the latest wave of unrests that broke out on Tahrir Square on Saturday, Egypt’s state TV reported.
- 12:11 23/11/2011
Thousands of Cairo residents took part in all-out protests on the streets of Cairo. The protesters demand the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Supreme Armed Forces Council which has been ruling the country since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak on February 11, 2011.
- 04:53 23/11/2011 CAIRO, November 23 (RIA Novosti)
A televised address by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the chairman of Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has not changed the mood of tens of thousands of protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
- 22:33 22/11/2011 CAIRO, November 22 (RIA Novosti)
Presidential elections in Egypt are scheduled for late June 2012, the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Marshal Hussein Tantawi, said on Tuesday.
- 21:16 22/11/2011 CAIRO, November 22 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt's ruling military council is in talks with the country's political forces on Tuesday to discuss ways of ending the current political crisis, the Egyptian TV said.
- 23:24 21/11/2011 CAIRO, November 21 (RIA Novosti)
The Egyptian government headed by Prime Minister Isam Sharaf stepped down on Monday in response to tensions caused by some 30,000 protesters gathering on the capital's central Tahrir Square.
- 23:02 21/11/2011 CAIRO, November 21 (RIA Novosti)
The Egyptian government headed by Prime Minister Isam Sharaf stepped down on Monday in response to tensions caused by some 30,000 protesters on the capital's central Tahrir Square.
- 13:21 21/11/2011 CAIRO, November 21 (RIA Novosti)
At least 20 people have died in clashes between protesters and security forces in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
- 22:25 20/11/2011 CAIRO, November 20 (RIA Novosti)
The Egyptian government is not going to move the date of parliamentary elections, which now scheduled to begin on November 28, the government's Cabinet said on Sunday.
- 19:51 20/11/2011 CAIRO, November 20 (RIA Novosti)
New violent clashes between protesters and police occurred outside the Interior Ministry of Egypt near Tahrir Square in Cairo, dozens of people were injured.
- 14:32 20/11/2011 CAIRO, November 20 (RIA Novosti)
More than 900 people were injured as clashes erupted between riot police and protesters in Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Saturday, health officials said on Sunday.
- 04:21 20/11/2011 CAIRO, November 20 (RIA Novosti)
At least one person was killed and more than 670 injured as clashes erupted between riot police and protesters in Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Saturday
- 16:31 18/11/2011 CAIRO, November 18 (RIA Novosti)
Some 50,000 protesters gathered on Friday in Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital of Cairo to take part in rallies against military rule called “Friday of One Demand,” a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
- 12:28 05/10/2011 CAIRO, October 5 (RIA Novosti)
Youth movements in Egypt are set to hold a mass protest under the slogan "Thank You! Now return to your barracks!" in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, the EGYnews portal reported.
- 13:42 02/10/2011 CAIRO, October 2 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt's ruling military council has unveiled a schedule of power transfer to a civilian government, with schedule details published by Egyptian media on Sunday.
- 07:39 02/10/2011 CAIRO, October 2 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt's ruling military council agreed to amend election laws after representatives of the country's major parties threatened to boycott parliamentary polls.
- 17:27 30/09/2011 CAIRO, September 30 (RIA Novosti)
Hundreds of protestors gathered on Friday morning in Cairo's central Tahrir Square for a rally dubbed "A Friday to Reclaim the Revolution."
- 16:45 28/09/2011 CAIRO, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced Hosni Mubarak's powerful information minister Anas al-Fiqqi to seven years in prison for corruption and misappropriation of public funds charges.
- 02:28 18/09/2011 CAIRO, September 18 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt's supreme election commission has proposed to hold elections to the country's parliament starting from November 21, the Al Ahram newspaper said.
- 21:25 07/09/2011 CAIRO, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
A Cairo court ruled on Wednesday to summon top officials from the ruling military authorities to testify in the trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, Arab media reported.
- 06:30 06/09/2011 CAIRO, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been adjourned until Wednesday, the Egyptian Nile TV channel reported.
- 16:22 05/09/2011 CAIRO, September 5 (RIA Novosti)
The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resumed behind closed doors on Monday as families of those who died during the uprising that ousted him clashed with police outside the courtroom.
- 12:29 05/09/2011 CAIRO, September 5 (RIA Novosti)
Supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak began to gather in front of the Police Academy in Cairo on Monday morning, where a third hearing will be held later in the day.
- 02:28 18/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt's former presidential chief of staff Zakaria Azmi, once among the country's most powerful officials, will go on trial on charges of abuse of office, the Elaph portal said.
- 16:50 03/08/2011 CAIRO, August 3 (RIA Novosti)
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak pleaded not guilty of abuse of office, corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during February's uprising in a trial in Cairo on Wednesday.
- 13:46 03/08/2011 CAIRO, August 3 (RIA Novosti)
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak appeared before a Cairo court on a stretcher on Wednesday.
- 20:20 02/08/2011 CAIRO, August 2 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak will be transferred on Wednesday from a Red Sea resort to Cairo to stand trial on charges that he ordered the killing of protesters during February's revolution, regional media said.
- 02:31 24/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 24 (RIA Novosti)
A total of 231 people were injured when pro-democracy protestors clashed with government supporters in the Egyptian capital Cairo, the MENA news agency said.
- 16:11 13/07/2011 Yelena Suponina for RIA Novosti
Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf is expected to announce the dismissal of several ministers and some of his deputies today, although protesters on Cairo's Tahrir Square demanded more. They chanted for the resignation of Sharaf himself and Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, who leads the ruling military council.
- 20:52 07/07/2011 CAIRO, July 7 (RIA Novosti)
The vast majority of Egypt's political forces are preparing to rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday as frustration is mounting at the slow pace of reforms in the country.
- 18:44 01/07/2011 CAIRO, July 1 (RIA Novosti)
Several thousand people are taking part in a protest in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on Friday.
- 15:47 29/06/2011 CAIRO, June 29 (RIA Novosti)
Hundreds of people were injured on Wednesday as Egyptian police clashed with anti-government protesters in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, al Jazeera TV reported.
- 17:43 04/06/2011
Former Egyptian finance minister Yussef Boutros Ghali was on Saturday sentenced in absentia to 30 years of prison over corruption charges, Egypt's official news agency Mena said.
- 15:27 27/05/2011
Thousands of Egyptians are moving into Cairo's central Tahrir Square for a new Day of Rage protest on Friday.
- 17:38 24/05/2011
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons will go on trial over the shooting of peaceful protesters, national media reported on Tuesday.
- 21:12 21/05/2011
The lawyer of Egyptian former prime minister Ahmed Nazif on Saturday demanded that his defendant was released from custody during the period of legal proceedings, the MENA news agency said.
- 22:35 17/05/2011
Egyptian ex- President Hosni Mubarak has turned over all his assets to the government in an attempt to avoid jail, the Al Ahram weekly said on Tuesday.
- 19:56 13/05/2011
Egypt's authorities have ordered the detention of Suzanne Mubarak, the wife of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, pending further investigation of corruption allegations, the Mena state news agency reported on Friday.
- 13:16 05/05/2011
A court in Cairo has sentenced Egypt's former interior minister, Habib al-Adli, to 12 years in jail for money-laundering and profiteering, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday.
- 17:26 16/04/2011
The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court has ordered on Saturday to dissolve the country's ousted President Hosni Mubarak's party.
- 02:18 10/04/2011
Egyptian military police detained over 40 people following a mass rally on Saturday on Cairo's central Tahrir Square, the MENA news agency reported.
- 16:56 09/04/2011
At least two people have been killed and other 18 wounded as thousands of Egyptians calling for trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak clashed with the army on Cairo's central Tahrir Square, local media said on Saturday.
- 20:59 06/04/2011
Egypt's military Supreme Council, which is temporarily governing the country, denied media reports on Wednesday about a secret agreement with ousted President Hosni Mubarak on letting him leave the country.
- 19:55 30/03/2011
Egypt will hold presidential elections before the end of the year, Gen. Mamduh Shahin, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, said on Wednesday.
- 18:18 30/03/2011
Egypt's governing Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Wednesday announced a constitutional declaration that will act as the country's main set of laws during a transitional period.
- 17:49 30/03/2011
The first thing that Egyptian authorities should do to restore stability in the country is to put an end to strikes that have doubled the economic damage caused by the revolution, Egyptian Ambassador to Russia Alaa El Hadidi said on Wednesday.
- 11:26 28/03/2011
Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces denied earlier reports that presidential elections would be postponed until mid-2012 and stressed that the military is seeking to transfer power to civilian rule as soon as possible.
- 13:53 23/03/2011
A joint commission of Egyptian and Arab human rights groups has submitted a report to the country's top prosecutor about the alleged involvement of ex-president Hosni Mubarak and police in premeditated murders of protesters, a local paper said on Wednesday.
- 21:29 20/03/2011
Egyptians approved on Sunday constitutional changes that will, the head of the supreme judicial committee Mohammed Ahmed Attiyah said.
- 11:28 19/03/2011
Egyptians are going to the polls on Saturday in a referendum on constitutional changes that pro-democracy campaigners say do not go far enough.
- 22:42 06/03/2011
Several hundred people tried to storm an office of the state security service in central Cairo on Sunday to seize archives, which they suspect police wants to destroy, the local media said.
- 20:13 06/03/2011
Egypt's new Prime Minister Isam Sharaf announced on Sunday a new lineup of the Cabinet, which will take the oath to the Supreme Council running the country on Monday.
- 17:31 06/03/2011
Egypt's ruling Supreme Council has called on people to return top secret documents which went missing during the recent raids in state security agencies and asked the holders to keep the information secret.
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