Mustafa Kassam, arrested in 2013 during Cairo demonstrations, always maintained he was an innocent bystander swept up in mass arrests during dispersal of Islamist sit-in

With public pressure behind it, Environmental Protection Ministry strides toward solar energy. But Energy Ministry still issues permits for oil, gas, fracking, though it cuts coal

PM says peace with Arab states based on strength and deterrence; reveals how in 2012 he got Egypt's Morsi to withdraw tanks he had sent into Sinai in breach of peace deal

Rights groups say nearly 2,000 arrested in week-long crackdown on demonstrators, activists and academics decrying economic hardship and government corruption

Crackdown comes ahead of Friday's mass rally calling for ouster of general-turned-president; prominent critics and academics nabbed in wave of arrests

Cairo says police exchanged fire with members of banned Islamist group, who were 'planning a series of terror operations'

Abdullah Morsi suffers heart attack in Cairo; he was detained last year for alleged membership in Muslim Brotherhood and had campaigned to improve his father's prison conditions

Khalid Siddiqi says those allegedly responsible for the former Egyptian president's death were 'working for Satan'

Amnesty says 'chilling' arrest of journalists, businessmen and political figures for purported links to outlawed Islamist group are politically motivated

Most outlets just used the same 42-word government statement and relegated the news to the inside pages