Riot police have clashed with supporters of Egypt’s former Islamist president across the country, leaving two dead as the Muslim Brotherhood renewed calls to protest ahead of a key referendum later this month.

Egyptian security forces backed by armoured fighting vehicles and helicopters have stormed a town known to be an Islamist stronghold outside Cairo near the Great Pyramids, coming under barrages of fire from gunmen on rooftops.

Egyptian troops backed by helicopters have surrounded a town outside Cairo known to be an Islamist stronghold after exchanging fire with suspected militants who killed a senior police officer, the country’s official news agency said.

Hundreds of supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi took to the streets of Cairo today, holding scattered rallies across the city.

The supreme leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested, dealing a serious blow to the group as it tries to maintain street protests over the removal of president Mohammed Morsi.

The brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri has been arrested in Egypt, officials say.

Egyptian authorities have authorised police to use deadly force to protect themselves and key state institutions from attacks.

Angry supporters of Egypt’s ousted president have stormed and torched two buildings housing the local government in Giza, the city next to Cairo that is home to the pyramids.

A state of emergency and curfew are in place in Egypt after riot police smashed two protest camps hosting supporters of the deposed Islamist president, sparking street violence that officials said killed over 400 people

Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have fortified their two Cairo sit-in sites.

Supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi remained defiant as Egypt’s military-backed government offered protection to those who ended their two sit-ins – widely seen as a first step towards dispersing the vigils on opposite sides of Cairo.

His fate hanging in the balance, Egypt’s embattled president last night vowed he would not resign, hours before a deadline to yield to the demands of millions of protesters or see the military install a new leadership.

Egyptians were voting today in the second and final phase of a referendum on an Islamist-backed constitution, but there was little indication that the result of the vote will end the political crisis in which the country is mired.

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.

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.

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Egyptian passengers fed up with waiting for their train to move put logs and rocks on the rails of a nearby track, causing two other trains to collide, an official says.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood candidate has won a spot in a run-off election, according to partial results from the country’s first genuinely competitive presidential election.

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Egyptians in nine provinces have started voting in the second round of the first parliamentary elections since a popular uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February.

The attack on his country’s embassy in Egypt is a “grave violation” of diplomatic norms and a “blow to peaceful relations” between the two countries, a senior Israeli official said today.

EGYPT’S military rulers have vowed to crack down on religious violence after 12 people died in clashes in a Cairo suburb sparked by unconfirmed suspicions that Christians had abducted a woman who converted to Islam.

EGYPT’S military rulers have called for an end to strikes and protests as thousands of state employees, from ambulance drivers to police and transport workers, demonstrated to demand better pay in a growing wave of labour unrest unleashed by the democracy uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak’s regime.

Egypt was hit by a wave of pay strikes by public sector workers today, even as the interim government managed to virtually clear out demonstrators from Tahrir Square.

Hundreds of Egyptian state workers took to Cairo’s streets today to demand better pay and conditions in the latest outbreak of unrest.

Japanese carmaker Nissan has restarted its plant in Egypt, shut down for two weeks because of massive protests, a company spokesman said.

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ONLY one of the seven wonders of the ancient world survives. The pyramids of Giza, just outside Cairo, have been standing for 4,600 years.

A MASSIVE statue of one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, Ramses II, rolled through the streets of Cairo to a new home near the Pyramids yesterday to escape the corrosive pollution of its former spot in a crowded transit hub.

A BOMBER was seriously hurt yesterday when an explosive device - believed to have been intended for tourist shops near the famous pyramids of Giza - blew up, police said.