An agreement that would end the hunger strike of some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has been reached in Cairo, pending approval by strikers’ committee, a senior Palestinian official told Al Jazeera. “An agreement was reached in Cairo today [Sunday] on a proposal to end the hunger strike of the Palestinian prisoners,” Issa Karaka, [...]

CAIRO, May 8, 2012 (IPS) – More than a year since president Hosni Mubarak was removed from power, the money he allegedly syphoned from Egypt during his 29-year rule remains beyond the reach of authorities attempting to recover it. Mubarak amassed a fortune by carving up Egypt as if it were his own private estate. [...]

As the election nears, Egypt’s fragile transition to democracy is slipping into turmoil. It is not just the killings, or the repetition of the generals’ heated denials – on Thursday they insisted that they had nothing to do with the bloodshed, had no preference for who should be president, and had no desire to cling [...]

In a wide-ranging interview with TheMarker, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer says ties with Egypt must be maintained at all costs. For more on this story, visit: Israel must be prepared for future confrontation with Egypt, says ex-Defense Minister – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

The protests were aimed at stepping up pressure on the generals to hand over power to civilians and bar ex-regime members from running in forthcoming presidential elections. Both Islamists and liberals turned out in force for the protest, to show the widespread anger at the military over the country’s political chaos ahead of the first [...]

Hosni Mubarak’s former vice-president and spy chief has said he will not attempt to “reinvent” his mentor’s regime if he is elected president of Egypt. Omar Suleiman, who is running in the elections due on 23-24 May, told the state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper that restoring security would be his top priority as president. Next on his [...]

Western governments have been encouraging Egypt’s nascent political powers to consider offering the military generals currently running the country immunity against prosecution, according to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) has been in control of the country since the toppling of former president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, with the [...]

A ship carrying a cargo of weapons with explosives en route from the USA to Egypt must not be allowed to offload because of a substantial risk the weapons will be used by Egyptian security forces to commit human rights violations, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The organization has tracked the Dutch-flagged ship, MV Schippersgracht, [...]