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US administration pressured to shift its policy

Experts in the bi-partisan Washington-based Egypt Working Group confirmed that they met with senior officials at the White House National Security Council (NSC) on Tuesday to discuss political reform in Egypt...

Interior Ministry to control elections

Dr Magdy Abdel Hamid, chairman of the Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement, stated that the delegation of the coalition headed on Monday to the Supreme Council for Elections to submit a file on monitoring the elections during the upcoming parliamentary polls...

57 MB candidates barred from registering in elections

The first day of registering for nomination as candidates in the upcoming parliamentary polls has proved to be eventful. Although 75 candidates were successful in submitting applications at least 57 other Muslim Brotherhood candidates were rebuffed by the government...

Abduction of MB leader in Zagazig and raid on another's house in Kafr El-Sheikh

Security forces from the Zagazig Police station abducted MB leader Mr.Saleh Ali Saleh, Secretary of the United Nations Library at the Zagazig University during the evening continuing its sweep on MB members, leaders and supporters...

Analysts: Egypt Aims at Bringing TV Talk Shows and News Bulletins under Control of State Television

Egypt's information minister Anas el-Fiqi, maintained that new licenses for private TV satellite uplinks would be distributed ...

Student Hammam Waleed Ruqiyah Dies under Torture

Informed sources in the Syrian capital, Damascus, have reported that Hammam Waleed Ruqiyah, a student, was arrested from his town, Jayrud, in a rural province in Damascus three months ago. His family did not know his fate or the reason for his detention...

Evidence of U.S. backtracking on supporting democracy in Egypt

In clear evidence of the decline in the U.S. administration in maintaining the principle of spreading democracy in the Middle East US Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey confirmed the US respected and trusted Egypt’s supervision over the parliamentary elections...

Breaking news: 75 MB candidates submitted applications despite escalating aggression

Security forces brutally attack political opposition demonstrating in front of the Municipal Building in the Gharbeya governorate after being prevented from handing in applications for parliamentary candidates and prevent journalists and media from the vicinity...

IOF release child after 38 days in several jails

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) released a 13-year old child called Sayel Abu Qwaider after he spent 38 days in different Israeli jails...

Palestinian gov't demands Britain to apologize for Balfour declaration

The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya demanded Britain once again to declare publicly its responsibility for Balfour declaration, apologize to the Palestinian people and atone for its historical crime against Palestine...

MB Nominates 132 Candidates for Parliamentary Polls

The Muslim Brotherhood opposition group has maintained that it plans to field a total of 132 candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections, slated for November 28. MB MP Saad Husseini asserted that 66 members are already in fact sitting members of parliament...

IOA bulldozes Beit Ummar land to establish 50 new housing units

The Israeli occupation authority is accelerating the bulldozing of Palestinian land in Beit Ummar village, Al-Khalil district, in preparation for building 50 new housing units...

MB Secretary General: We Seek Neither Power nor Authority

Secretary General for the Muslim Brotherhood Dr. Mahmoud Hussein accused the Egyptian government of attempting to tarnish the image of the Muslim Brotherhood in the media and hindering the group’s efforts to publicize their ideology and principles to the Egyptian people...

MB: It is a religious and national duty to protect places of worship and we vehemently condemn any form of violence

Security has been tightened by the Coptic Church in Egypt in advance of Pope Shenouda III's Wednesday sermon following threats made by the Iraqi wing of al-Qaeda against Egyptian churches detaining two women who have converted to Islam...

Egyptians' Tax Money Spent on Improving Image of Egypt's Regime

With parliamentary elections just round the corner and the presidential elections to follow in 2011 the Egyptian government has embarked on a quest to improve its image...

ElBaradei: Democracy must come from within

Noble Peace prize laureate and former IAEA chief Dr Mohamed ElBaradei confirmed that he would not contest in the Egyptian presidential elections slated for next year...

Egypt elections: Hosni Mubarak awaits his managed landslide

Egyptians wishing to stand in the general election on 28 November must file an application by Sunday, the interior ministry said last week...

MB strongly condemns attacks on Christians in Baghdad

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt vehemently condemned the heinous attack on the Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad where over 60 civilians were killed and approximately 100 were critically injured, describing it as heinous.The group asserted that Islam does not advocate such violence and denounces any such actions highlighting that Islam promotes respect and sanctity to human life regardless of religion, colour or creed...

Experts: Prison Act in Egypt Is Unconstitutional

Lawyers and judges stressed that the current Prison Act is unconstitutional as it was passed in 1965 in the absence of parliament and was not reviewed after its formation...

MB confirms using their slogan - Islam is the solution

As elections near papers monitor the run up reporting the political opposition's activities...