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• Peter Greste: Egypt envoy hopes for release 'sooner rather than later'

  10 Sep 2014: Ambassador to Australia hopes ‘everything will be cleared’ in the case of the jailed journalist

• Kerry leads diplomatic drive to boost Arab support in fight against Isis

  9 Sep 2014: Efforts made ahead of Barack Obama's announcement of new strategy to fight extremist group

• Egypt charges Mohamed Morsi over alleged Qatar leaks

  6 Sep 2014: Ousted president accused of endangering national security by handing state secrets and sensitive papers to Gulf state

• Egyptian belly-dancing show shelved after religious backlash

  4 Sep 2014: Country's people remain conservative despite removal of Muslim Brotherhood but dancers say things have still improved

• Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy applies to marry fiancee in prison

  4 Sep 2014: Fahmy makes official request after 250 days of incarceration and hopes Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed will be best men

• Thousands of Egyptians evicted without compensation for Suez project

  3 Sep 2014:

  Inhabitants of two villages say 1,500 homes have been destroyed and 5,000 are under threat to make way for bypass

• Egypt's rights groups get temporary reprieve

  31 Aug 2014: Activists fear that they will still be affected by crackdown on dissent by Egyptian government

• Egypt's tourism revenues fall after political upheavals

  29 Aug 2014:

  Since 2011 uprising and subsequent turmoil, income has plunged so far antiquities ministry worried it cannot pay its staff

• Accusations of massacre at Cairo's elite club as hundreds of stray cats killed

  28 Aug 2014: Egypt's animal rights record is exposed amid protests from animal welfare groups outside Gezira Sporting Club

• Sinai jihadist group says it has beheaded four men

  28 Aug 2014:

  Egyptian group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claims to have killed locals who gave information to Israeli forces

• Ahmed Seif el-Islam, leading light of Egypt human rights, has died

  27 Aug 2014: Seif el-Islam represented political activists and protesters, including his son, Alaa, and his daughter, Sanaa

• Call Islamic State QSIS instead, says globally influential Islamic authority

  27 Aug 2014: Egypt-based Dar al-Ifta urges rebrand to al-Qaida Separatists in Iraq and Syria to stop militants smearing reputation of Islam
  

• Gaza ceasefire: Israel and Palestinians agree to halt weeks of fighting

  27 Aug 2014:

  Terms of indefinite ceasefire – brokered by Egypt – expected to be similar to those agreed at the end of 2012 conflict

• UAE and Egypt behind bombing raids against Libyan militias, say US officials

  26 Aug 2014: Strikes said to be from planes flying out of Egyptian airbases signal step towards direct action in conflict by other Arab states

• Libya could be just the beginning for a newly proactive Gulf

  26 Aug 2014: Jane Kinninmont: No longer able to rely on US support, richer Arab states are more likely to take military action on their own behalf

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