Egyptian Crisis

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  Egyptian Prosecutor Allows For Hosni Mubarak Release

  A prosecutor allowed Monday for Hosni Mubarak to be released, his lawyer said, after an appeals court acquitted Egypt's ex-president of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising.

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  ISIS Executes 5 Egyptians Accused Of Aiding Army

  The ISIS group in Egypt claims to have executed five men it accused of working for the army, which is battling the jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula.

• Al-Jazeera in legal action claiming Egypt harassment

  Qatari-owned news channel Al-Jazeera has launched legal action against the Egyptian authorities, saying that its journalists have been detained without charge and attacked, its London-based lawyers announced on Thursday.

• Egypt Islamists vow new demos as crisis grows

  Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi announced new demonstrations on Sunday as the country grew increasingly polarised and the death toll in four days of violence topped 750.

• Egypt considers outlawing Muslim Brotherhood

  Egyptian authorities are considering disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood group, a government spokesman said on Saturday, once again outlawing a group that held the pinnacle of government power just more than a month earlier.

• Egyptian government to declare mediation efforts failed to end crisis

  The chances for a negotiated end to Egypt's political crisis looked to have hit the rocks on Tuesday with the army-installed government reportedly ready to declare that foreign mediation efforts had failed.

• Envoys in Egypt visit jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader, claim reports

  Western and Arab envoys visited a high-ranking member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood in jail on Monday, the state news agency reported, to press an international bid to defuse the crisis ignited by President Mohamed Morsi's downfall.

• US envoy meets Egypt's foreign minister in a bid to resolve crisis

  A US envoy met Egyptian officials today amid efforts to find a peaceful solution to the stand-off between supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and the army-installed interim government.

• Egypt: Chief justice Adli Mansour sworn in as interim President

  The chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in Thursday as the nation's interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

• In New York's 'Little Egypt,' Egyptian-Americans cheer Mohamed Morsi's ouster

  Members of New York's Egyptian community descended on the coffee shops, delis and Hookah bars of "Little Egypt" on Wednesday to celebrate the overthrowing of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi after one year in office.

• Egypt's military chief thanks the armed forces for their sacrifices

  The armed forces couldn't plug its ears or close its eyes as the movement and demands of the masses calling for them to play a national role, not a political role as the armed forces themselves will be the first to proclaim that they will stay away from politics.

• Egypt: When is a coup not a coup? Barack Obama faces tricky call

  The Egyptian military's overthrow of elected President Mohamed Morsi left President Barack Obama grappling with a difficult question of diplomacy and language in dealing with the Arab world's most populous nation: was it a coup?

• Egypt shuts down Islamist-run TV channels

  Egypt's military-led authorities shut down three Islamist-run TV stations on Wednesday including one operated by the Muslim Brotherhood after President Mohamed Morsi was toppled by the army, drawing a statement of concern from a press freedom watchdog.

• US orders mandatory evacuation of embassy in Cairo

  The United States on Wednesday ordered the mandatory evacuation of its embassy in Cairo, just hours after the Egyptian military ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

• Egypt's Mohamed Morsi: from prison to palace to..?

  Egypt's first freely elected president Mohamed Morsi, who was toppled in a coup on Wednesday, is a veteran Islamist who is no stranger to underground politics having broken out of jail just 30 months ago.