Brotherhood leader 'ready to talk' when Mubarak goes

Egypt’s opposition said Sunday it will keep fighting the Islamist-backed constitution after the Muslim Brotherhood, the main group backing the charter, claimed it passed with a 64% “yes” vote in a referendum.

CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian prosecutors launched an investigation on Tuesday against a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting the president in the latest case raised by Islamist lawyers against outspoken media personalities. Lawyer Ramadan Abdel-Hamid al-Oqsori charged that TV host Bassem Youssef insulted President Mohammed Morsi by putting the Islamist leader’s image on a pillow and parodying his speeches.

Clashes killed at least 31 people in Egypt's Port Said as violence raged into the early hours of Sunday in several cities including the capital following death sentences passed on 21 football fans after a riot.

CAIRO — Two years after Egypt’s revolution began, the country’s schism was on display Friday as the mainly liberal and secular opposition held rallies saying the goals of the pro-democracy uprising have not been met and denouncing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. With the anniversary, Egypt is definitively in the new phase of its upheaval.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak came under fresh pressure Monday to quit immediately as opponents posing the biggest challenge to his 30-year rule said concessions made in landmark talks were insufficient.As the uprising entered a 14th day, central Cairo's Tahrir Square was still filled with anti-regime protesters adamant that the start of dialogue with opposition groups would not divert their campaign to unseat Mubarak.

The Egyptian opposition weighed up its limited options on Wednesday after the ruling party crushed its main rival the Muslim Brotherhood in a bitterly-disputed parliamentary election.The National Democratic Party of President Hosni Mubarak won 209 of 221 seats in the first round of voting, according to official figures released late on Tuesday night."Electoral earthquake in the ranks of the opposition," ran the headline of the independent daily Al-Shuruk.

The Egyptian opposition weighed up its limited options on Wednesday after the ruling party crushed its main rival the Muslim Brotherhood in a bitterly-disputed parliamentary election.The National Democratic Party of President Hosni Mubarak won 209 of 221 seats in the first round of voting, according to official figures released late on Tuesday night."Electoral earthquake in the ranks of the opposition," ran the headline of the independent daily Al-Shuruk.