Egypt Judges Killing

Islamic State group suicide bombers killed four people, including a judge, in an assault today on a North Sinai hotel hosting judges overseeing Egypt's parliamentary polls, the government and jihadists said.

A car bomb exploded outside a hotel housing election judges in Egypt's North Sinai today, killing at least three people and injuring 14, security and medical sources said.

Gunmen killed two Egyptian judges and a prosecutor Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula, where security forces are battling an Islamist insurgency spearheaded by an Islamic State group affiliate, officials said.

Families of Egyptians killed in protests that unseated Hosni Mubarak reacted angrily in court on Saturday when a judge trying the former president over the deaths barred their lawyers from taking part in the case.

Police and protesters clashed in the port city of Alexandria on Sunday after a judge investigating the killing of protesters in Egypt's 2011 uprising said he was transferring the case to another court, a court source and a Reuters witness said.

An Egyptian judge convicted former president Hosni Mubarak of complicity in the killings of protesters during the uprising that ended his 30-year rule and sentenced him on Saturday to life in prison.

A Cairo court today sentenced five policemen to 10 years in jail in absentia for the killing of protesters during the uprising which ousted president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources told AFP. Judge Mohammed Faheem, who issued the ruling, also handed out one-year suspended sentences to two other policemen.

Islamic State group suicide bombers killed four people, including a judge, in an assault today on a North Sinai hotel hosting judges overseeing Egypt's parliamentary polls, the government and jihadists said.

A car bomb exploded outside a hotel housing election judges in Egypt's North Sinai today, killing at least three people and injuring 14, security and medical sources said.

Gunmen killed two Egyptian judges and a prosecutor Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula, where security forces are battling an Islamist insurgency spearheaded by an Islamic State group affiliate, officials said.

Families of Egyptians killed in protests that unseated Hosni Mubarak reacted angrily in court on Saturday when a judge trying the former president over the deaths barred their lawyers from taking part in the case.

Police and protesters clashed in the port city of Alexandria on Sunday after a judge investigating the killing of protesters in Egypt's 2011 uprising said he was transferring the case to another court, a court source and a Reuters witness said.

An Egyptian judge convicted former president Hosni Mubarak of complicity in the killings of protesters during the uprising that ended his 30-year rule and sentenced him on Saturday to life in prison.

A Cairo court today sentenced five policemen to 10 years in jail in absentia for the killing of protesters during the uprising which ousted president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources told AFP. Judge Mohammed Faheem, who issued the ruling, also handed out one-year suspended sentences to two other policemen.