Thousands of protesters filled Cairo's Tahrir Square overnight as Egypt's rival presidential candidates, an Islamist and former general, accused each of trying to steal an election whose result is sti

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood expects its anticipated presidential election win to be respected, its candidate said on Friday, after the ruling military threatened to deal "firmly" with any unrest.

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Officials postponed declaring a winner in Egypt's disputed election on Wednesday, sending political tensions soaring as the country awaited its first new president in three decades.

Adding to the con

An Egyptian prison official says former President Hosni Mubarak's health has taken a turn to the worst and he is likely to be moved out of his prison hospital to a military facility nearby.

The offic

Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak has suffered a stroke and been defibrillated in prison and is on his way from prison to hospital, state news agency MENA said Tuesday.

The agency said Mubarak had s

Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak was declared clinically dead after he was transferred to hospital from prison on Tuesday, state media reported, after his heart stopped beating.

"Hosni Mubarak is c

Egypt's authorities will soon issue a statement on the health of Hosni Mubarak, state television said on Wednesday, after conflicting reports said the ex-president was clinically dead or in a coma.

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Hosni Mubarak was in a coma on Wednesday but off life support and his heart and other vital organs were functioning, according to security officials.

Overnight, state media reported that the 84-year

Several thousand Egyptians took to Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest against the ruling military's bid to grab new powers, as both presidential candidates claimed victory in a historic vote.

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The Muslim Brotherhood has declared that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt's presidential election.

Morsi 'is the first civilian, popularly elected Egyptian president', the group says on its w