Egypt freezes Muslim Brotherhood assets
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A court ordered a freeze Wednesday on the assets of 29 known financiers of the Muslim brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful opposition movement.
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A top Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt is arrested along with scores of the group's supporters.
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The UK government on Friday directed financial institutions to freeze the funds of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA) with immediate effect.
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Egypt had less than half its Internet  capacity available on Thursday because of breaks in two  undersea cables that have also affected the Gulf region and  south Asia.
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Some officials believe the Muslim Brotherhood, a secretive and diverse movement opposed to Western influences, offers a chance for political engagement that could help isolate violent jihadists.
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Egypt ordered that 140 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood detained during a sweep be kept in custody for two weeks, judicial and security sources said.
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Britain has frozen the assets of the hardline Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) insurgent group responsible for a spate of hostage-takings and executions in Iraq, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown told parliament.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the government's decision to freeze the assets of a Missouri-based Islamic charity with alleged links to a foreign group that supports terrorism.
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A Canadian court freezes the worldwide personal assets of media tycoon Lord Conrad Black.
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Authorities on Saturday released 55 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood who had spent up to 20 years in jail, a human rights group said.
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The United States on Wednesday froze the U.S. assets of nine people and two businesses in the border area of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay who Washington said helped funnel millions of dollars to Lebanon's Hezbollah.
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The Libyan Central Bank has withdrawn  $1 billion of assets which had been frozen for almost two  decades in the United States on Washington's orders, a Libyan  central bank official said Wednesday.
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Police arrested 73 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday, in what appeared to be a pre-emptive strike against the country's largest Islamic group ahead of elections and a key parliamentary debate, officials said.
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Egypt cuts off supplies to its border zone with Gaza to discourage Palestinians from pouring into the area.
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Egyptian police detained dozens of members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, expanding a crackdown on the country's strongest opposition group ahead of local elections in April.
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Egypt stops Palestinians vehicles from crossing the Gaza border, as talks begin in Cairo to resolve the crisis.
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Egyptian police detained 50 students from the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most powerful opposition group, in a renewed crackdown on the movement Saturday, a Brotherhood source said.