Sources: AFP
Egypt's interior ministry reports that a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet belonging to the pharaoh Amenemope, missing from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was stolen, melted and sold, with several suspects arrested. 2025-09-18
The Hamas delegation holds another round of ceasefire talks in Cairo, Egypt, with General Intelligence Service chief Hassan Mahmoud Rashad. 2024-12-9
Egyptian authorities arrest Mahmoud Ezzat, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was serving a sentence "in absentia" and was detained in a hideout in Cairo. 2020-08-28
Nine people are killed in two coordinated attacks targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt. Two of the victims are killed by a gunman in a Coptic-owned appliance store in the Helwan area of Cairo. The gunman then moves to a church where he kills a further six civilians and a policeman before being arrested. 2017-12-29
Egyptian authorities arrest Muhammad Badie, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, in Cairo. Mahmoud Ezzat, deputy leader of the Brotherhood, becomes temporarily the new Supreme Guide. 2013-08-20
Tens of thousands of people converge on Cairo's Tahrir Square to demonstrate against Egypt's military rulers, who have seized power following the ousting from power of Hosni Mubarak in last year's revolution. 2012-06-19
2011 Egyptian revolution: Activists gather in the Egyptian capital Cairo, calling for the end of the post-Hosni Mubarak military regime. 2011-12-23
2011 Egyptian protests: Egyptian protestors claims that the Egyptian Army beat them up in Cairo's Tahrir Square. 2011-02-25
Organisers of the 2011 Egyptian protests call on supporters to fill every square in Cairo after two days of clashes between supporters and opponents of President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak. 2011-02-4
Egyptian mosques pray for President Hosni Mubarak—who is ill and whose health is taboo—as images of his recovery in Germany are broadcast on television screens, boosting stock markets. 2010-03-19