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Lawyer believes Jeremy Hodge, of Los Angeles, held with local filmmaker Hossam Eddin el-Meneai by Egyptian NSA ...

s deep political divisions. The majority of the deaths were in Cairo, according to the health ministry. Security forces lobbed teargas and fired in the air to try to prevent anti-government demonstrators from reaching Tahrir Square, the symbolic heart of the 2011 uprising, where government supporters called for the head of the military, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to run for the presidency. Armoured...

Supporters of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi clash with Muslim Brotherhood supporters who are marching toward Tahrir Square on Saturday ...

Twenty nine have been killed, the majority of them in Cairo, where police tried to stop people entering Tahrir Square during marches on the third anniversary of the uprising that culminated in the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak ...

We must encourage education and tolerance if we are to bring about peace in the Middle East and the rest of the world The last weeks have seen a ghastly roll call of terror attacks in the obvious places: Syria, Libya, Iraq and Lebanon, as well as Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and Pakistan. Also suffering are places where we have only in recent years seen such violence: Nigeria, and in many parts of central...

s letters from prison An Australian journalist who is being held in an Egyptian jail has described his detention as an "attack on freedom of speech" in letters to his family. Peter Greste and two colleagues working for al-Jazeera were arrested on 30 December for allegedly holding illegal meetings with the banned Muslim Brotherhood. He said in his letters the detention had not led him to being charged...

t want that right to be snatched away. I've been locked in my cell 24 hours a day for the past 10 days, allowed out only for visits to the prosecutor for questioning, so the chance for a walk in the weak winter sunshine is precious. So too are the books on history, Arabic and fiction that my neighbors have passed to me, and the pad and pen I now write with. I want to cling to these tiny joys and avoid...

s most successful political comedian. But 10pm passed and Bassem Youssef did not appear. Instead, a newsreader read a statement from the channel's board: Youssef's show had been withdrawn . It was a telling moment for free speech in Egypt, in the wake of the ousting of former president Mohamed Morsi. Youssef, a former heart surgeon, had become a poster boy for post-revolutionary Egypt in the months...

Tension high in Egyptian capital as al-Qaida inspired group says it will carry out more attacks ...

Peter Greste and two Al Jazeera colleagues have been held for almost a month by military government Paul Farrell ...

s police headquarters early on Friday morning – the eve of the third anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak. Three smaller blasts later struck near a cinema, metro station and a police station in west Cairo. All appeared to target policemen, with officials saying the fourth was aimed at the motorcade of a senior police officer. The explosions mark an apparent escalation...

Jailed reporter, who has not been charged, to remain in solitary confinement for at least another 15 days, say parents  ...

Big explosion outside Egyptian police headquarters followed by two more blasts in capital Patrick Kingsley ...

People gather at the scene of a huge truck bomb blast at the police headquarters in Cairo ...

s police headquarters early on Friday morning – the eve of the third anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak. Two smaller blasts occurred near a metro station and a police station in west Cairo. The first killed one person and injured four after a passing driver threw a grenade at police vehicles, officials said. No casualties were reported from the second blast....

s overthrow are squeezed out of political discourse Egypt is braced for more violence on the third anniversary of its 2011 uprising, after the prime minister, Hazem Beblawy, called on Egyptians to march in support of the police – while a terrorist group who attacked police with four separate bomb attacks on Friday simultaneously warned the public to stay away from open spaces. Whatever happens, many...

Scroll through this timeline to explore the last six months of continued unrest in Egypt and click to read more The film ends in July 2013, with the deposition of a second president in the space of three years – but much has happened since. We pick up where The Square leaves off. Scroll through this timeline to explore the last six months of continued unrest in Egypt and click to read more Patrick...

Armed men opened fire on the officers at a checkpoint in southern province of Bani Suief Egyptian security officials say masked gunmen riding on a motorcycle have killed five police officers at a checkpoint in the south of the country. The officials say the attack took place early on Thursday when the armed men opened fire on the checkpoint in el-Wassta district in the southern province of Bani Suief....

s favourite mummified teenage pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, had been buried with his penis at 90 degrees to make him look more like Osiris, god of the afterlife, for reasons too complicated to get into right now. Then Japanese researchers digging in Luxor unearthed the tomb of the chief brewer of the temple of Mut . It was the tell-tale hieroglyphics of pint mugs and crisp packets that gave the game away...

s lead archaeologist said on Wednesday. The discovery of King Senebkay is the first firm evidence of a pharaonic dynasty whose existence archaeologists had suspected but never proved. About 20 previously undiscovered pharaohs may lie near Senebkay's tomb, explained Josef Wegner, the dig's head archaeologist. "It's emerging as something like a Valley of the Kings," he added, referring to the famous...