CAIRO - Ex-president Hosni Mubarak, on trial for the death of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising that toppled him, said future generations would judge him "fairly" in an interview published on Sunday.  "I have said in the past that history would bear witness and judge, and I am still ...

cairo - Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Saturday to face a new trial for complicity in the murder of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising, as well as for corruption.The 85-year-old Mubarak, who was taken into court in a wheelchair dressed in white and wearing ...

CAIRO (AFP/Reuters): Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was transferred Thursday from a military hospital back to prison to await a retrial in May over his role in the deaths of protesters in 2011, a security source said.Mubarak was taken by ambulance to Tora prison under heavy security ...

CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the release of former president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters but he will remain in custody pending investigation into fraud charges, state media reported. The Cairo Court of Appeal ordered Mubarak’s release after the expiry of ...

CAIRO (AFP) - The judge in ousted president Hosni Mubarak's retrial stepped aside on Saturday, in a chaotic opening hearing that lasted just seconds and saw a proud and combative Mubarak smile and wave in the dock.Head judge Mostafa Hassan Abdallah told the court he would recuse himself and send ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Ousted president Hosni Mubarak has a build-up of fluid in his lungs and cracked ribs, Egypt’s official news agency MENA reported after he was transferred from prison to military hospital for treatment. The state prosecutor ordered Mubarak’s transfer on Thursday after his ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt’s state prosecutor on Thursday ordered imprisoned former dictator Hosni Mubarak to be transferred to a military hospital after his health deteriorated, a source at the prosecutor’s office said. Mubarak, serving a life sentence over the killings of protesters, was ...

CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian court on Tuesday freed the former senate leader under ousted president Hosni Mubarak on bail, after spending the maximum permitted 18 months in jail awaiting his corruption trial, the official MENA news agency reported. Safwat al-Sherif, one of the top-ranking members of ...

CAIRO - Egypt’s ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, who is serving a life sentence, was injured when he slipped in a prison shower on Saturday, the official MENA news agency reported. The former president, who was sentenced over the killings of protesters during the uprising that toppled him last ...

CAIRO - Stalwarts of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak were acquitted Wednesday of organising a notorious camel-borne assault on protesters during last year’s uprising, the state MENA news agency said. The court found all 24 defendants not guilty, including the then speakers of ...

LAHORE – The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has issued another notice to the owners of Mubarak Centre, Ferozpur Road, giving them an option to either start construction at the earliest or to refill the deeply excavated site to avoid any mishap, sources informed TheNation.The construction ...

CAIRO  - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who has been in critical condition since moving to prison, was defibrillated twice after his heart stopped on Monday, a prison hospital source told AFP. Mubarak's "heart stopped twice. Doctors had to use a defibrillator. He has been in and out ...

Hosni Mubarak may suffer a stroke at any time, according to an official in the Torah prison where the Egyptian ex- president is presently serving a life imprisonment. According to MENA news agency, the official said that Mubarak’s health was seriously deteriorating, and he was having ...

An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison on Saturday after convicting him of involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year.Also given a life term for the killings was Mubarak's former interior minister Habib al-Adly, while ...

CAIRO - Deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak's sons, already on trial for corruption with their father, will face a new separate case for alleged corrupt stock market dealings, state media reported Wednesday. The official Nile Television reported that Alaa and Gamal Mubarak would go on trial in ...

CAIRO  - A Cairo criminal court on Sunday sentenced ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's former chief of staff to seven years in jail on corruption charges, a judicial source told AFP. Zakaria Azmi was also ordered to pay a fine of 38 million Egyptian pounds (around $6.2m), the source ...

CAIRO - Members of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s regime, in jail for corruption, have offered their assets in exchange for their release, Egyptian state media reported on Thursday.The government says it is considering the deal, which would pump vital money into the suffering economy, but ...

CAIRO - Civilian courts have no authority to hear corruption charges against ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak because he reverted to his former military rank when he quit, his defence lawyer Farid al-Deeb said on Thursday.Deeb cited a law adopted in 1979, during the presidency of Mubarak's ...

CAIRO  - Hosni Mubarak was "a just man, not a tyrant" and his accusers have no evidence to support their charge that he ordered the killing of protesters during the uprising against him, the lawyer defending the former Egyptian president said on Tuesday.Defence lawyer Farid el-Deeb said the ...

MOSCOW - Russia on Saturday said it was concerned after Egyptian prosecutors demanded a death sentence for fallen dictator Hosni Mubarak, calling for humanitarian factors to be considered. "Such announcements are heard in Moscow with concern," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement. While ...

CAIRO  - The chief prosecutor in Hosni Mubarak’s trial insisted on Wednesday that he had strong evidence against the fallen dictator in arguing that Mubarak had ordered the killings of anti-regime demonstrators, and accused the interior ministry of hampering the case. “The ...

LONDON (AFP) - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was assessed by British Foreign Office officials as dim but "free of any taint of corruption" before he took power in 1981, files released Friday showed.British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was told by officials that Mubarak was "the coming ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Egypt's military ruler, will most likely testify in the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak if summoned after a request by the defence, a security official said Thursday. Fareed al-Deeb, who represented the fallen dictator at his murder trial, asked ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egypts ex-president Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into court on a stretcher on Wednesday and denied murder and graft charges, as sporadic clashes erupted outside between his supporters and his foes. The former strongman, looking pale and dressed in white, pleaded not guilty from a ...

ABU DHABI (AFP)-Middle East shares gained, sending Abu Dhabi's stock index to the highest in a month, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation bolstered investor optimism. Israeli stocks rose the first time in four days. Dana Gas PJSC, a fuel producer with operations in the North African ...

He seemed insurmountable as president of most populous nation in Arab world until outbreak of anti-regime protests. HE survived 10 attempts on his life, and at 82 his health was a subject of speculation. But in the end, it was his people who brought down Egypts modern-day pharaoh. Until the ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Tuesday he took an Egyptian holiday including Nile boat cruise partly funded by Egyptian authorities shortly before the popular uprising against President Hosni Mubarak. Faced with calls for the sacking of his foreign minister for ...

KARACHI - The fishermen still waiting for the fulfilment of the promises made by the government about developing their village into a model village, The Nation learnt on Tuesday. As per details, the fishermen of Mubarak village have complained that the government has not taken any concrete step ...