Egypt arrests 80 Brotherhood Islamists in sweeps
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Egyptian security forces detained 80  members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday in sweeps  at dawn, intensifying a clampdown against the government's most  powerful political rival.
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Egyptian state security prosecutors released four members of the banned but normally tolerated Muslim Brotherhood and extended the custody of 52 others, legal sources said.
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Eight people have been arrested under anti-terrorism legislation during early morning raids in Birmingham, west central England, police said.
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Egypt sent a convicted Israeli spy home after eight years in jail and Israel released six Egyptian infiltrators Sunday in the clearest sign of a warming of relations strained by a Palestinian uprising.
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TABA, Egypt  - Investigators lifted fingerprints, swabbed dust and collected tissue from the wreckage of three car bombings Saturday and detained dozens of Bedouin tribesmen, including quarry workers who could have provided the explosives that killed at least 34 people.
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Egyptian police detained dozens of Muslim  Brotherhood members on Wednesday, security officials said,  escalating a crackdown against the country's strongest  opposition group ahead of local elections in April.
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Egypt's electoral authorities say the ruling National Democratic Party has won 84 out of 88 seats contested.
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Egypt deports eight French and two Belgian citizens it arrested on suspicion of links to terrorist groups.
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More than 80 reputed mobsters in jail or on the run after major transatlantic strike against mafia
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Police arrested the main financier and strategist of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood opposition group Thursday, security and group officials said.
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A huge police operation leads to the arrest of nearly 80 alleged mafiosi and brings an old gang war to light
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Egypt's security state has pushed Islamic radicals who once reigned in neighborhoods like Imbaba to the fringes.
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The government goes after Palestinian Islamists in Tripoli
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CAIRO, Egypt  - Eight Egyptians have been arrested and accused of plotting the nearly simultaneous car bombings of a hotel and tourist camp in the Sinai that killed at least 34 people earlier this month.
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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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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.