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An Egyptian court, on Saturday, upheld death sentences against 21 convicts of last year's deadly soccer riot that killed 74 people, and acquitted 28 others, sparking off widespread violence in the deeply polarised country.
A third goal-line technology system has been approved and granted a licence, making it eligible to be considered for use at the 2014 World Cup, FIFA said in a statement on Monday.
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Hazem el-Beblawi, a liberal economist and Egypt's former finance minister, was on Tuesday appointed as the country's new prime minister in a transitional government as the interim president unveiled a roadmap for fresh polls by early next year to end the raging political crisis.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on a historic visit to Egypt, has narrowly escaped being hit by shoes hurled at him -- a grave insult in the Arab world.
Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi was put under detention on Thursday by the army, which launched a massive crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood movement, arresting its senior leaders, even as a top jurist took over as the interim head of state.
In the course of talks with Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, who will be in India on March 18, the tricky one for New Delhi to handle may well be Cairo's quest for greater co ordination on Syria. Saeed Naqvi examines
The United States consulate in Chennai was attacked on Friday evening by an angry mob to protest against a controversial anti-Islam video.
Some 400 people arrived from the direction of Tahrir Square shouting slogans against remnants of the former regime on Monday night. They broke into the villa in Dokki neighbourhood that houses Shafiq's offices, stole computers and documents and threw some into the street, an eyewitness said.
Israel bombarded as many as 80 locations in the narrow Gaza enclave, flattening Gaza's police headquarters and taking the Palestinian death toll to nearly 100 in six days of onslaught.
The sacrifices and heroism of 800 Indian soldiers killed in the battle of El Alamein, fought 70 years ago in Egypt's north coast, were remembered at a special memorial service organised by the Indian Embassy in Cairo.
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The events in the coming days and weeks may take a course similar to what happened in the Islamic world after the publication of caricatures in a Danish newspaper in September 2005, notes B Raman.
Ousted Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak's two sons and his last Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq were on Thursday acquitted of corruption charges by a criminal court in Cairo.
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is suffering from severe depression in jail with his psychological deteriorating after being sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the killing of protesters to his rule.
Journalist Peter Greste arrived in Australia and been reunited with his family after 400 days in a Cairo jail.
Egypt's state prosecutor will appeal against the ruling in Hosni Mubarak's trial, which acquitted him and his two sons on corruption charges, as thousands of enraged protesters hit the streets across the country on Sunday against the "light" sentence given to the ousted President.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the collapse of a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, asking Israel and the Palestinians factions to reach an immediate understanding on a durable truce.
Egypt, which came under dictatorship 60 years ago, on Wednesday, will vote to choose their president in the first-ever competitive elections to be held.
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Hosni Mubarak, the fallen Pharaoh of Egypt, began his life sentence in a prison hospital in Cairo with a freshly assigned prisoner number, a blue uniform that he stubbornly refused to wear, and a visit by his wife.
Seventy-four people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday when Egyptian football fans staged a pitch invasion in the city of Port Said, the deadliest incident since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak from power.
Seventy-four people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday when Egyptian football fans staged a pitch invasion in the city of Port Said, the deadliest incident since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak from power.
Egyptians gathered in Cairo at the iconic Tahrir Square to mark the completion of their revolution that begin a year ago leading to the ousted of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old regime.
An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the release of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured onto the streets of Cairo on Tuesday for an unprecedented rally seeking ouster of Hosni Mubarak, hours after the powerful military showed signs of distancing itself from the besieged President vowing that it would not fire on the protesters.
One person was shot dead and 18 injured in clashes between security forces and angry football fans in Egypt's Port Said after their club al-Masry was banned for two seasons following the country's worst stadium disaster, a medical source said.
Unmoved by the ruling Generals' overtures like appointment of a new Premier, tens of thousands of Egyptians on Friday packed the iconic Tahrir Square in Cairo for a "last chance" mass rally demanding that the military junta hand over power to civilians immediately.
Five months after a popular uprising ousted him from nearly three decades of absolute power, deposed president Hosni Mubarak was flown into Cairo on Wednesday to face trial for murder and corruption.
Egypt's streets continued to simmer with anger with 10 lives lost over three days, as fuming protesters clashed with the police over its failure to prevent Port Said's unprecedented football violence. Police in Cairo fired teargas and birdshots at protesters who tried to march on to the interior ministry and threw stones at security forces guarding the building on Saturday.
The Egyptian army secretly arrested thousands of anti-government protestors over the past two weeks and tortured some of them, The Guardian reported. Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in Cairo, told the UK daily that hundreds, and possibly thousands, of ordinary people had "disappeared" into military custody across the country for no more than carrying a political flyer, attending the demonstrations or even the way they look.
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Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's courtroom remarks have reportedly become popular ringtones in his native country. The 83-year-old former president appeared at a special ourt in Cairo on Wednesday to face charges of corruption and the unlawful killing of over 850 protesters during the Tahrir Square revolution that forced him from power.
FIFA are to donate $250,000 (157,321.75 pounds) to the families of the victims of last week's Egyptian stadium disaster in which 74 people were killed after violence flared at a soccer match in Port Said between al-Masry and Cairo-based Al Ahli.
FIFA has requested a full report from Egyptian authorities into the violence at a soccer match in Port Said that left 74 people dead, world soccer's governing body said on Thursday.
Egypt's worst soccer violence claimed at least 74 lives in the northern city of Port Said, plunging the nation into rage and prompting protests and clashes with the police in Cairo.
Twenty-five Egyptian officials of the erstwhile Hosni Mubarak regime have been charged for their role in an attack on pro-democracy protesters in Cairo in February in which assailants on horses and camels charged into crowds.
