Thousands of opponents of Egypt’s Islamist president clashed with his supporters in cities across the country today, burning several offices of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt’s president has ordered his interior minister to investigate a rash of sex assaults during a just-completed Muslim holiday.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet today, targeting British and German embassies and clashing with security forces around the Middle East and other Muslim countries.

Egypt’s president fired the first shots in his battle with the nation’s powerful generals, ordering the Islamist-dominated parliament to reconvene despite a military-backed court ruling that dissolved it.

Egypt’s newly-elected president read the oath of office in Tahrir Square and defied the country’s military rulers by saying: “I fear no one but God.”

Thousands of Islamists have poured into Cairo’s Tahrir Square to hear Egypt’s president-elect make his first public speech since declaring victory.

New Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi has moved first thing into the office once occupied by his ousted predecessor Hosni Mubarak and started work on forming a government.

Islamist Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner in Egypt’s first free presidential election in history, closing the tumultuous first phase of a democratic transition and opening a new struggle with the still-dominant military rulers who recently stripped the presidency of most of its powers.

Mohammed Morsi was declared Egypt’s first Islamist president today.

Egyptians demonstrated throughout the weekend in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square and other cities, enraged that a court had spared deposed leader Hosni Mubarak his life over the killing of protesters in the uprising that ended his three-decade rule.

Tens of thousands of protesters have packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the biggest demonstration in months against the ruling military.

Tens of thousands massed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and other Egyptian cities, marking a year after an uprising erupted that toppled Hosni Mubarak, spurred revolts across the region and exposed rifts in the Arab world’s most populous state.

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have gathered to mark the first anniversary of the country’s 2011 uprising, with liberals and Islamists on different sides of Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a reflection of the deep political divides.

Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers in riot gear swept through Cairo’s Tahrir Square today firing on protesters demanding an immediate end to military rule.

Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers swept into Cairo’s Tahrir Square today, chasing protesters and beating them to the ground with sticks and throwing journalists’ TV cameras off balconies in the second day of a violent crackdown on anti-military protesters that has left nine dead and hundreds injured.

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.

EGYPTIANS voted in droves in the first election since the fall of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, giving Islamists a chance to make political gains even as the army generals who replaced him cling to power.

EGYPT’s army ruler warned yesterday he would not tolerate any pressure ahead of new protests demanding that he step down on the eve of the country’s first elections since the January revolution.

Leading Egyptian democracy advocate Mohamed El Baradei says he is prepared to head a “national salvation” government to steer the country out of its political crisis.

TENS of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to military rule packed Cairo’s Tahrir square in the biggest turnout of a week of protests and violence that has killed 41 people.

Egypt’s military rulers picked a prime minister from ousted leader Hosni Mubarak’s era to head the next government today.

Tens of thousands of protesters chanting “Leave, leave!” are rapidly filling up Cairo’s Tahrir Square today in what promises to be a massive demonstration aiming to force Egypt’s ruling military council to yield power.

Egypt’s military rulers rejected protesters’ demands for them to step down immediately and said they would start the first round of parliamentary elections on time next week, despite serious unrest in Cairo and other cities.

Egypt’s parliamentary elections will be held on schedule next week despite spreading unrest, the country’s military leaders said today.

Police and protesters demanding that Egypt’s ruling military council step down are observing a truce after five days of deadly street battles in which at least 40 people died.

YEMEN President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a Gulf initiative last night to hand over power to his deputy as part of a proposal to end months of protests that have pushed the Arab country to the brink of civil war.

International criticism of Egypt’s military rulers mounted today as police clashed for a fifth day with protesters demanding the generals relinquish power immediately.

EGYPT’S ruling generals offered last night to transfer power to a civilian president by July in a dramatic attempt to placate protesters and defuse a political crisis that has jolted plans for the country’s first free election in decades.

The revolution against Mubarak did not have a figurehead; that was said to be key to its success. However, this strength has become a weakness in Egypt’s transition to democracy, writes Omar Ashour

A move by Egypt’s military rulers to bring forward the transfer of power to a civilian government has failed to win over thousands of street protesters in Cairo.

Egypt’s civilian cabinet offered to resign after three days of violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Tahrir Square – but the action failed to satisfy protesters deeply frustrated with the new military rulers.

SECURITY forces fired tear gas and clashed with several thousand protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the third straight day of violence that has killed at least 33 people and has turned into the most sustained challenge yet to the rule of Egypt’s military.

Police have clashed again with thousands of protesters in Cairo on the third straight day of violence that has left more than 20 people dead.

EGYPTIAN soldiers and police set fire to protest tents in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets yesterday to drive out thousands demanding that the military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government.

Firing tear gas and rubber bullets, Egyptian riot police clashed for a second day with thousands of rock-throwing protesters demanding that the ruling military quickly announce a date to hand over power to an elected government.

Egyptian riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets stormed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square today to dismantle a protest tent camp, setting off intense clashes which injured at least 507 people.

At least 81 people were injured today when Egyptian riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets stormed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square today to clear a protest tent camp.

ABOUT 50,000 mainly Islamist protesters flocked to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to press Egypt’s military rulers to transfer power to elected civilians after the cabinet launched a move to exempt the army from parliamentary oversight.

Thousands of Egyptians are rallying in Cairo’s Tahrir square in a protest against what they say are attempts by the country’s military rulers to reinforce their powers.

Five TDs have accused Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore of double standards regarding the detention of 14 Irish activists in Israel as they tried to bring aid to Gaza.

The interception of an Irish ship trying to break Israel's naval blockade on Gaza was violent and dangerous, activists have claimed.

WOMEN in Cairo’s Coptic hospital wailed for their dead and Christians accused Egypt’s generals of failing to protect them from strict Islamists after 25 people, most of them Coptic demonstrators, were killed in clashes with troops.

Egypt’s ruling military and protesters seeking greater and faster change are moving into an outright collision, as the generals try to strip away public support for the movement while cosying up to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

Thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets to demand justice for victims of Hosni Mubarak’s regime and press the new military rulers for a clear plan of transition to democracy.