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Qatar's Interior Ministry releases a list of individuals and entities it says are linked to terrorism. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, who had demanded the list amid tensions with Qatar, welcome its release but criticise the time taken to prepare it.
2018-03-22

Egypt tries 237 activists, who face jail terms of up to three years, arrested for protesting without permits against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Thousands demonstrated this month following the Sisi government's decision to hand over two uninhabited islands in the Straits of Tiran to Saudi Arabia. Human Rights Watch says at least 382 had been arrested.
2016-04-30

An Egyptian court sentences the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie and fourteen other people to death for inciting violence.
2015-04-11

A suicide bomber kills one person and injures 24 in an attack on a police station in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
2015-03-10

Egypt deports Australian journalist Peter Greste after being jailed with two al-Jazeera colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed 400 days before.
2015-02-1

Egypt's main opposition demands an investigation into the referendum on the Draft constitution, citing "fraud and violations" in the voting.
2012-12-23

A Draft constitution by the Constitutuent Assembly is approved by a majority of Egyptians in a referendum on 15 and 22 December.
2012-12-23

Clashes break out in Alexandria, Egypt, on the evening of the second leg of voting in the constitutional referendum.
2012-12-21

Voters in Egypt go to the polls for a highly charged referendum on a new constitution with violent clashes reported in Alexandria the evening before.
2012-12-15

Egypt holds parliamentary runoff elections following alleged electoral fraud in last week's first round.
2010-12-5