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A group of labor and political forces agreed Thursday to coordinate ahead of celebrations for the first anniversary of the uprising that forced President Hosni Mubarak from power on 11 February last year. Several political powers and official bodies have already announced their intention to commemorate the start of the revolution. The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has declared 25 January a national holiday. The decision came during a meeting of representatives from the Egyptian Farmers Union, Egyptian Communist Party, Tagammu Party, Egyptian Socialist Party, 25 January Revolution Youth Coalition, as well as additional political and labor forces. Some of these groups are still in the process of being officially certified. The meeting resulted in the formation of a committee that will be tasked with organizing activities and preparing for the celebrations. These activities will include distributing fliers and organizing public rallies and Cai...

Court rulings have invalidated the results of various elections around Egypt for the third round of elections for the lower house of parliament, delaying the official end of the first half of Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls. The runoff vote for party list-based seats for the People's Assembly will be re-held in the first electoral district of Sohag Governorate on 16 and 17 January, said head of the High Judicial Elections Commission (HJEC) Abdel Moez Ibrahim Thursday. This will implement a ruling by an administrative court and endorsed by the Supreme Administrative Court, Ibrahim added. Ibrahim also spoke about other court rulings regarding the third round of People's Assembly elections. The administrative court in Assiut on Thursday evening canceled the results of elections for single-winner seats in Minya Governorate's second constituency. The 53 candidates there will re-compete in both normal and runoff elections...

Former Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa denied receiving funds from Saudi Arabia for his election campaign, in an interview with London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper Friday. When the newspaper asked Moussa about repeated charges that he has received funding

Dozens of protesters marched around Tahrir Square after Friday prayers, demanding retribution for protesters killed since the 25 January revolution began, social justice, halting natural gas exports to Israel, and a swift transition to civilian rule. The march did not disrupt traffic in the square. Protesters urged people at Omar Makram mosque and the Mugamma administrative building, both located on the square, to participate in the celebrations planned for 25 January to commemorate the anniversary of the uprising the overthrow former President Hosni Mubarak. Mazhar Shahin, the imam of Omar Makram mosque, participated in the march. During the demonstration, protesters raised images of the revolution's martyrs and the image of a military soldier who is currently on trial for joining Tahrir protesters in uniform last November. On Monday, 54 political parties and movements called for nationwide protests on 25 January to demand a swift transfer of power from militar...

Two judges investigating the violent clashes outside the cabinet last December ordered activist Ahmed Doama detained Thursday for 15 days pending investigation, judicial sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm Friday. In response, activists on Facebook and Twitter called for a Friday protest outside the public prosecutor's office in downtown Cairo. The judges handling the investigation into the clashes had detained 160 people total pending investigations. On Thursday, the Cairo Criminal Court released 60 suspects while continuing to investigate charges against them. The Dostor news †††site reported that security forces arrested Doama late Thursday in the Dokki neighborhood in Giza. Doama was interrogated in the Fifth Settlement in New Cairo, said activist Asmaa Mahfouz on Twitter. State-run Al-Ahram said on its †††site that the public prosecutor had charged Doama with inciting violence, assaulting military officers and attacking public institutions. On 16 Dece...

Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr is currently on a six-country tour of the Nile Basin countries as Egypt increases its attempts to engage its neighbors to the south lobbying for a greater share of Nile water. Amr's visit is being advertised as promoting Egyptian investment in the Nile Basin countries, but Egyptian foreign policy experts say that the trip is really aimed at improving relations with the six countries that signed the Entebbe agreement in the Ugandan city back in 2010. The treaty calls for a more equitable distribution of Nile water rights among the eleven riparian countries, though at the time of signing it was ten, before the advent of South Sudan. The treaty was initially signed by Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. Burundi signed a year later. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has promised to sign, but has yet to do so. Egypt refused to sign the treaty and declared it non-binding because it lacked Egypt’s consent. A...