Egypt pushed for action against jihadists in Libya ahead of a UN Security Council meeting Wednesday but faced reluctance from Western powers who stressed the need for a political solution.

A civilian was killed in an explosion in the vicinity of the October 6 Police Station in Giza on Wednesday, said an official from the civil protection administration.

“If there’s real will to defeat terrorism before it arrives to Egyptian territory in a clear and intensified fashion, there should be preemptive strikes against those who aid the terrorists……I specifically mean the Qatari airplanes that aid them through Sudan.”

As fears grow that the Islamic State group is building a new stronghold in violence-wracked Libya, analysts warn that international military intervention would risk plunging the country deeper into turmoil.

A young Egyptian Coptic man told Al-Hayat satellite channel on Tuesday that he avoided the Islamic State's massacre of 21 Egyptians in Libya by returning alone to Egypt.

Students supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsy and the Muslim Brotherhood whipped up fresh protests on Tuesday at a number of universities, resuming a year-and-a-half-old wave of campus activism against the government that ousted the former leader.

The UN Security Council (UNSC) is holding an emergency meeting Wednesday regarding the situation in Libya.

The Suez public prosecutors referred on Tuesday 199 people, including Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, to military trial over violence which occurred in August 2013, reported state news agency MENA.

Al-Azhar University banned any food or drink containers on its headquarters over fears students could use them to make explosives during demonstrations, Youm7 reported Tuesday

Hundreds of grieving mourners in Al-Our village in Minya on Monday bade farewell to the 21 Egyptian victims killed by Islamic State militants in Libya.

Egypt`s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi visited on Monday the head of Egypt`s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II extending condolences over the killings of the 21 Copts by Islamist State militias in Libya.

Families of 21 slain Egyptians in Libya held symbolic funerals for them in their hometown in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya on Monday.

In honor of Pope Francis’s visit to Palestine in May 2014, the Palestinian Museum launched a project entitled, "In the presence of the Holy See". The exhibit was comprised of an innovative and creative collection of digital collages which shed light on the decades-long suffering of Palestinian people.

Pope Tawadros II is holding a mass on Tuesday at noon at the St. Mark Cathedral in Abbassiya in tribute to the Egyptian Coptic Christians that were killed by IS in Libya.

A video showing the beheading of the Egyptians kidnapped in Libya was released on Sunday night on social media.

In the terrorism trial of a man accused of being one of al-Qaeda’s early leaders, an American described being asked in 1995 by Osama bin Laden to kill Egypt’s president by ramming his plane with his own in midair.

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed to 28 February former president Mohamed Morsi’s trial, on charges of spying and “leaking confidential documents [belonging to] general and military intelligence”, state media reported.

The trial of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and Muslim Brotherhood politician was postponed to 28 February, after the first session in a new trial where he is accused of "spying for Qatar" convened on Sunday.

Egypt’s ministry of foreign affairs has no new updates about Egyptian abductees in Libya, including about 21 Coptic Christian Egyptian workers kidnapped by the Islamic State in Sirte, the ministry’s official spokesperson Badr Abdel Atti said on Sunday.

A year after Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab took office, the premier on Wednesday stressed an initial promise to “crush terrorism” in his country following recent years of political turbulence and social unrest.

Police probing the murder of three Muslim students by a North Carolina man said Wednesday they were studying whether the slayings were racially motivated, as thousands gathered to mourn the killings and denounce intolerance.