6Ashton offers Egypt crisis mediation August 21, 2013 10:19 AM EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met Egyptian officials last month, including ousted leader Mohammed Morsi The EU's top foreign policy official, Catherine Ashton, has offered to return to Egypt to help mediate a political solution to the crisis in the country. "I am more than willing to go back... if they wish me to," she said. She was speaking to reporters in Brussels ahead of an extraordinary meeting of EU foreign ministers, who will discuss whether to continue with a 5bn-euro (£4.3bn) aid package to Egypt. Violence in the country has left more than 900 people dead in the last week. Lady Ashton said member states would have to balance the need to continue to support the people of Egypt, while also reflecting their concerns about the situation. There is "great concern about acts of violence" among the countries of the EU, Lady Ashton noted, but member states also recognise they need ...
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http://m.spiegel.de/international/world/a-916921.html Egypt cabinet to hold crisis meeting August 18, 2013 8:37 AM Egypt's cabinet is set to discuss the crisis in the country, where hundreds have died in clashes in recent days. The interim prime minister has put forward a proposal to legally dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood. Its members are key supporters of Mohammed Morsi, whose ousting as president sparked Egypt's stand-off. The interim government is continuing to crack down on protests by the Brotherhood, but more demonstrations are planned around Cairo on Sunday. Many Egyptians support government efforts to quash Brotherhood protests Overnight, television pictures showed protesters on the streets of Egypt's second largest city, Alexandria, and in Helwan and Minya to the south of Cairo, in defiance of an overnight curfew. On Saturday Egypt's security forces cleared the al-Fath mosque in Cairo after a long stand-off with Muslim Brotherhood supporters barricade...
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Coptic Christian churches, buildings targeted in Egypt for second straight day Published August 15, 2013 | FoxNews.com ADVERTISEMENT Attacks on Coptic Christian churches in Egypt continued for a second day Thursday, the country’s state-run news agency said, as Muslim Brotherhood supporters torched a church in a province outside of Cairo. Egypt's MENA agency said supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi set fire to the Prince Tadros church in the province of Fayoum, where three similar attacks occurred on other churches the day before. Ishaq Ibrahim from The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights group, documented as many as 39 incidents of violence against churches, monasteries, Coptic schools and shops in different parts of the country on Wednesday. Violence across Egypt in the past two days has left at least 638 dead and 4,200 injured, according to Health Ministry figures. Looking to crack down on church-related attacks, Egyptian authorities on Thursday referred 84 ...
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Huge rival rallies grip Egypt http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23472072 MIDDLE EAST 26 July 2013 Last updated at 23:22 GMT Egypt crisis: Huge rival rallies as Morsi is accused Huge rallies by supporters and opponents of Egypt's ousted Islamist president are continuing into the night with five people killed in Alexandria. In what is seen as a trial of strength, supporters of Mohammed Morsi filled the streets around a mosque in Cairo to condemn his removal by the army. Army supporters converged on Tahrir Square, just a few miles away. The detained ex-leader has been formally accused of conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Early on Saturday, Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said the sit-in protest by Morsi supporters at the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo would be "brought to an end soon and in a legal manner". He gave no details but said local residents had complained about the encampment. Earlier this week, army...