Egypt Violence

• Three Dead in Attack at Islamist Protests in Egypt

  Three people including an army general were killed and at least 26 wounded on Friday in a drive-by shooting and violence that erupted at Islamist protests around Egypt, security sources and health officials said.

• Egypt police storm area near Cairo, officer killed

  Egyptian security forces clashed with gunmen on the outskirts of Cairo on Thursday as the army-backed government moved to reassert control over an Islamist-dominated area where political violence broke out last month.

• Egypt extends state of emergency by two months

  Egypt's interim authorities on Thursday extended a state of emergency in force since mid-August by another two months because of the country's continued security problems.

• Egypt's Brotherhood under legal threat as bomb hits central Cairo

  A judicial panel set up by Egypt's military-backed government supported a legal challenge to the status of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, compounding a drive to crush the movement behind the elected president deposed by the army in July.

• 173 killed in Egypt in 24 hours: government

  An Egyptian government spokesman says the death toll in Friday's clashes has risen to 173 nationwide.

• Egypt death toll rises to 623, UN Security Council chief urges 'restraint'

  Supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood stormed and torched a government building in Cairo on Thursday, while families tried to identify hundreds of mutilated bodies piled in a Cairo mosque a day after they were shot dead by the security forces.

• Egypt violence: Canada shutters embassy citing concerns for staff

  Canada has shuttered its embassy in Egypt, citing concerns about staff safety amid growing unrest in Cairo in the wake of hundreds of deaths in a crackdown on protesters.

• Death toll in Egypt violence rises to 421

  An Egyptian Health Ministry spokesman has further raised the death toll from the previous day's clashes between police and supporters of the country's ousted president to 421.

• US weighs canceling military exercise with Egypt

  The United States is considering calling off a major military exercise with the Egypt after Egyptian security forces killed scores of protesters on Wednesday, US officials said.

• Egypt seethes under curfew after hundreds killed

  Security forces struggled to clamp a lid on Egypt on Thursday after hundreds of people were killed when authorities forcibly broke up camps of supporters protesting the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, in the worst nationwide bloodshed in decades.

• Two journalists killed in Cairo violence

  Two journalists were killed in Cairo on Wednesday as Egyptian forces crushed protests by thousands of supporters of the deposed president, shooting scores of people dead.

• At palace, Egypt protesters, police clash

  Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, as more than a week of political violence came to Mohammed Morsi's symbolic doorstep for the first time.

• Egypt's Mohamed Morsi to give speech after signing in new charter

  President Mohamed Morsi is to address Egypt on Wednesday, after signing into law a contentious constitution he and Islamist allies backed to the fury of the opposition and to international concern.

• Egypt poised to give official poll results

  Authorities in Egypt are to release official results on Tuesday of a constitutional referendum that the ruling Islamists say they have already won but which the opposition alleges was marred by fraud.

• Clashes as Egyptian Islamists stage rally

  Supporters of President Mohamed Morsi and his opponents hurled rocks at each other in Egypt's second city on the eve of a final vote on a new constitution shaped by Islamists.