Egypt’s Foreign Ministry says the Turkish ambassador to Cairo has been considered persona non grata and will be ordered to leave the country because of Turkey’s continued “interference” in Egyptian internal affairs.

Three Hamas fighters are reported killed after Israeli aircraft bombed what the military described as a “terror tunnel” in Gaza.

Egyptian riot police have fired tear gas and locked down Cairo’s Tahrir Square and several other main streets as clashes broke out during a march by Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

A farmer in southern Egypt has been arrested after putting the military chief’s name and an army-style cap on his donkey while riding it through town.

Egypt’s Central Bank paid back US$2bn (€1.5bn) in aid to Qatar despite its faltering economy and refused a request by Qatari airlines to increase flights, authorities said today, marking a new low in relations between the two countries.

A fugitive leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is denying media allegations that his group is waging a “terror” campaign.

Egypt’s Prime Minister has ordered that ex-President Hosni Mubarak be placed under house arrest when he’s released from prison following more than two years in detention.

It is being reported that the four Irish citizens caught up in the recent violence in Cairo are being detained by security forces in Egypt.

The European Union says it will “urgently review” its relations with Egypt where more than 800 people have died in clashes between security forces and supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi.

After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like “prisoners of war” before a Muslim woman offered them refuge.

Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have taken to the streets in several parts of Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt in defiance of the military-imposed state of emergency.

Egypt has announced a month-long state of emergency across the nation on state TV.

Egyptian security forces, backed by armoured cars and bulldozers, have moved in to clear two sit-in camps by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out at both sites, state television and security officials said.

Egyptian helicopters have fired on a meeting of suspected militants in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 12 people as authorities stepped up their attacks following an Israeli drone strike in the region.

Syrian government forces bombed a strategic rebel town in the country’s north for the third straight day, pounding it with airstrikes that killed at least five people, activists said.

Islamist lawmakers in Egypt’s disbanded upper house of parliament have demanded the army reinstate ousted President Mohammed Morsi, and called on other legislatures around the world not to recognise the country’s new military-backed leadership.

Islamic supporters vowed to protest today after Egypt’s military moved swiftly against top Muslim Brotherhood figures, targeting the backbone of support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

The chief justice of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in today as the nation’s interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Syria’s President Bashar Assad said his opponents have “used up all their tools” and failed to overthrow his regime. The remarks came as Western-backed Syrian opposition figures gathered in Turkey for talks on electing a new leadership.

Egypt’s military has suspended the country’s Islamist-backed constitution and called early elections.

The Egyptian military has drawn up a plan to suspend the Islamist-backed constitution, dissolve the Islamist-dominated parliament, and set up an interim administration if President Mohammed Morsi fails to reach a solution with his opponents, the state news agency says.

Egypt’s military issued a “last-chance” ultimatum to President Mohammed Morsi, giving him 48 hours to meet the demands of millions of protesters seeking his resignation or face intervention by the generals, who will impose their own plan for the country.

Hundreds of thousands thronged the streets of Cairo and cities around the country and marched on the presidential palace, in an attempt to force out the Islamist president with the biggest protests Egypt has seen in two years of turmoil.

Egyptians were preparing for the worst today as streets once again filled with protesters eager to oust President Mohammed Morsi and Islamists determined to keep him in power.

Police fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters in Cairo today, a day after Egypt’s president declared a state of emergency in three provinces hit hardest by political violence.

Thousands of people who turned out for a mass funeral for 35 people killed in rioting in the coastal city of Port Said have been chanting against Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Key Egyptian rights groups are calling for a repeat of the first round of a constitutional referendum on grounds that the vote was marred by widespread violations.

The military has assumed responsibility for security and protecting state institutions in Egypt until the results of a constitutional referendum on December 15.

Egypt’s military today warned of “disastrous consequences” if the crisis that sent tens of thousands of protesters back into the streets is not resolved, signalling the army’s return to an increasingly polarised and violent political scene.

Egypt delayed early voting on a contentious draft constitution and might even call off the entire referendum, in the first signs that Islamic leader President Mohammed Morsi is finally yielding to days of protests and deadly street clashes.

Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets after Friday midday prayers in rival rallies and marches across Cairo, as the standoff deepened over what opponents call the Islamist president’s power grab, raising the spectre of more violence.

Islamists approved a draft constitution for Egypt early today without the participation of liberal and Christian members, seeking to pre-empt a court ruling that could dissolve their panel with a rushed, marathon vote that further inflames the clash between the opposition and President Mohammed Morsi.

Egypt’s benchmark stock index has plunged 9.5% halfway through the first trading session since the country’s Islamist president issued decrees to assume near absolute powers.

Egypt’s highest body of judges has called the president’s recent decrees an “unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings”.

Opponents of President Mohammed Morsi have set fire to offices of his Muslim Brotherhood in several Egyptian cities, clashing with his supporters after the Islamist leader assumed sweeping new powers.

A speeding train that crashed into a bus carrying Egyptian children to their kindergarten killed 51 and prompted a wave of anger against a government under mounting pressure to rectify the former regime’s legacy of neglect.

At least 47 children were killed today when their school bus was hit by a train on a level crossing in southern Egypt.

Palestinian militants fired nearly 150 rockets into Israel today, killing three people and striking the southern outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi will attend a summit in Iran later this month, the first such trip for an Egyptian leader since relations with Tehran deteriorated decades ago.

Masked gunmen killed 16 Egyptian soldiers at a checkpoint along the border with Gaza and Israel, the first such attack on troops.

Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi gave a lengthy speech to the army in praise of its role during the run-up to his election, proclaiming that he, his government and the powerful generals would co-operate for the future.

Egypt’s incoming cabinet will have few Islamists and some holdovers from the outgoing military-backed team in key positions, according to a partial list.

Egypt’s Islamist-dominated parliament opened a new front in the country’s leadership showdowns today by meeting in defiance of orders that disbanded the chamber and brought President Mohammed Morsi in conflict with both the powerful military and the highest court.