Egypt

Israeli regime has urged Washington not to freeze its annual $1.3 billion in aid to Cairo following the ouster of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi by the military.

Every revolution in history has had its counter-revolution. Internal and external forces ally, as they did in Egypt to abort the January 2011 revolution. In this revolution on 30 June 2013 they failed and they will continue to fail because the Egyptian youth both men and women who are rebelling against the Muslim Brothers , have learned the lessons of the past. Their consciousness has deepened with organization and unity writes a former director general in the Egyptian Ministry of Health.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday decided to postpone until Aug. 17 the retrial of Egypt's ex- president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, former interior minister and six of his aides over killing protesters during the 2011 unrest.

Lavrov held telephone talks on July 5 with Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amre on the Egyptian side's initiative.

Many have been wondering U.S. State Secretary John Kerry's whereabouts when the popular coup in Egypt broke out and ousted former President Mohamed Morsi. Apparently, he was having a pre-Independence Day vacation and yachting all day while the President of the United States, Barack Obama has been scrambling with his National Security advisors of what to do.

Egyptian security forces arrested Morsi and the head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and another of the movement's top leaders on July 3, an FJP official and security sources said, after the army toppled Mohamed Morsi from the presidency.

Egyptian Security forces have broken into the studios of Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr and have locked up its employees inside, shortly after the arrest of crews of Islamic TV channels. Shortly after the military announcement of the ouster of Islaimst president Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-owned television channel Misr 25 went off air along with several other Islamist-run channels, including the controversial Hafez and Al-Nas. The police also arrested some of the personnel working for these channels.

Egypt's President Mohammad Morsi's announcement on severing ties with Syria, shutting down the Syrian embassy in Cairo and withdrawing the Egyptian charge d' affaires from Damascus on Saturday came in implementation of orders and dictates by powers hostile to Syria, led by the US and reinforces inter-Arab divisions according to various leaders.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi announced severing ties with Syria, shutting down the Syrian embassy in Cairo and withdrawing the Egyptian charge d' affaires from Damascus. Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood is bank-rolled by the U.S. government and Qatar, also urged world powers not to hesitate to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria.

An Egyptian court decided Saturday to temporarily release former President Hosni Mubarak over charges of illicit gains, but still to keep him in custody over other cases, official news agency MENA reported.

The Cairo Appeal Court has set the date for the retrial of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak on 11 May and was transferred to Egypt's Tora prison hospital.

Egyptian NGOs – along with Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian counterparts – issue joint call to boycott UK/Danish security firm G4S due to latter's involvement with Israeli occupation.