Egypt’s president is reported to be considering whether to give the military full control of the volatile city of Port Said after days of deadly street clashes stoked by excessive force used by riot police.

Riot police have fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters in central Cairo a day after the president declared a state of emergency in three provinces hit hardest by political violence.

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.

Egypt’s president last night declared a 30-day state of emergency and night curfew in the three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by the wave of violence that has left more than 50 dead in the past four days.

Egypt’s president tonight declared a 30-day state of emergency and night curfew in the three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by the wave of violence that has left more than 50 dead in three days.

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.

Two football players are among 27 people killed in riots in the Egyptian city of Port Said, the area’s director of hospitals said.

The Egyptian military is being deployed to the Mediterranean city of Port Said after eight people were killed in riots outside the main prison.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 21 people to death on charges related to one of the world’s deadliest incidents of soccer violence, which killed 74 mostly teenage fans of Egypt’s most popular sports club last year.

Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s decree that put his decisions above legal challenge until a new parliament has been elected has caused fury amongst hisopponents who accused him of being the new Hosni Mubarak and hijacking the revolution.

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.

Fans charged over Egypt’s deadliest football riot have protested their innocence at the opening of their trial, turning their anger on police widely believed to have helped in the killing of 75 members of a rival club.

Egypt’s top prosecutor has charged 75 people with murder and negligence in connection with a deadly football riot in the Mediterranean city of Port Said.

Egyptian protesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army hurled rocks at police guarding Egypt’s Interior Ministry yesterday and were forced back with volleys of tear gas.

Volleys of tear gas left a white cloud over Cairo’s Tahrir Square and streets surrounding Egypt’s Interior Ministry, in the fourth day of clashes between security forces and rock-throwing youths protesting after a deadly football riot.

The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly football riot rose to 11 today, security officials said, as demonstrations continued in Cairo.

The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly football riot rose to eight today, security officials said, as demonstrations continued in Cairo.

The number of protesters killed in clashes with security forces in the wake of a deadly football riot in Egypt has risen to seven, security officials said today.

Police in Cairo fired salvos of tear gas and birdshot at rock-throwing protesters as popular anger over a deadly football riot spilled over into a second day of street violence that left five people dead and more than 1,500 injured, doctors and health officials said.

Three people have been shot dead in clashes between Egyptian police and protesters angry over a football match riot that left 74 dead.

Two protesters have been shot dead in clashes with Egyptian police in Suez, the first to die in demonstrations that followed a football match riot that left 74 dead.

Anger over a deadly soccer riot erupted in fresh clashes that injured nearly 400 people yesterday as security forces fired tear gas at fans and other protesters who accused police of failing to stop the bloodshed.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has condemned the violence following a football match in the Egyptian city of Port Said yesterday in which at least 75 people died.

Many Egyptians are blaming police and the ruling military for failing to prevent riots at a football match that left 74 people dead.

Al-Ahly coach Manuel Jose spoke of his sense of helplessness after watching his club’s fans die in front of him.

FIFA today demanded a full report into the violence at match in Egypt last night that left more than 70 people dead.

At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured after soccer fans invaded the pitch in the Egyptian seaside city of Port Said, following an upset victory by the home team over the country’s top club.

Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a minister called the biggest disaster in the nation’s soccer history.

At least 73 people have died in clashes after a football match in Egypt, state TV says.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is leading in initial, partial parliamentary election results but faces stiff competition from more hard-line Islamic groups and a liberal-secular alliance.

An explosion rocked a natural gas terminal near Egypt’s border with Israel early today, sending flames shooting into the air and forcing the shutdown of the country’s export pipeline.

CAIRO airport workers protesting for better pay, textile workers on strike to demand a corruption investigation and residents living by the Suez Canal pressing for the closure of a chemical factory allegedly dumping toxic waste into a lake shows the wave of unrest shaking Egypt has continued.

The military council in Egypt has issued its second statement in three days calling for an immediate halt to all labour unrest.

Industrial unrest unleashed by the turmoil in Egypt continued today despite a warning by the ruling military that protests and strikes were hampering efforts to improve the economy and return life to normal.

Doctors in white coats and lawyers in black robes have streamed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square as strikes across the country give powerful momentum to Egypt’s wave of anti-government protests.

A wave of strikes added to the chaos in Egypt tonight with thousands walking out of their state jobs in support of anti-government protests.

Two Greenpeace activists boarded a decommissioned French warship today to protest at its departure for India for dismantling, saying it carried hundreds of tons of toxic waste.

WIDESPREAD violence marred the second round of Egypt’s parliamentary vote yesterday, with police saying a campaign worker was shot and killed in Alexandria and witnesses reporting scores of injuries.

Five cargo ships carrying military supplies for United States troops in the Gulf entered the Suez Canal today on their way to join the American build-up for a possible war on Iraq, marine officials said.