Some 40 members of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood went on trial at a military court on Thursday, charged with being in a banned organisation and funding terrorism, a judicial source said.
A military trial of 40 top figures from the Muslim Brotherhood on terrorism and money laundering charges began Thursday under heavy secrecy, one of the largest such tribunals in years in a crackdown against Egypt's most powerful opposition political movement.
Germany says it won't lend a 3,400-year-old statue of Queen Nefertiti to Egypt because it is too fragile to travel. Egyptians don't accept the excuse. "We will make the lives of these museums miserable," the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt said.
One of the two Palestinians who tried to infiltrate into Egypt from the Palestinian territories was injured as he threw a bomb at the security agencies, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported on Thursday.
Israeli tourists in Egypt continue to be targets for suicide bombers as they try to smuggle in explosive belts into the tourism-active Sinai Peninsula.
CAIRO -- Some 40 members of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood went on trial at a military court Thursday, charged with being in a banned organization and funding terrorism, a judicial source said.
The BBC's Washington correspondent Just Webb examines anti-Americanism in Egypt for the final in his "Death to America" series.
Source: Reuters (Adds ministry of interior statement, paragraph 7) AL-ARISH, Egypt, April 26 (Reuters) - A Palestinian man lobbed a grenade at Egyptian police who confronted him near the Gaza border on Thursday as ...
A Palestinian man lobbed a grenade at Egyptian police who confronted him near the Gaza border on Thursday as he tried to smuggle a suicide bomb belt into Egypt, security sources said.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Courts in Hungary and Egypt side with Anheuser-Busch in its seemingly-never-ending battle with a Czech brewer over the Budweiser name.