Egypt's top court has rejected an appeal by an ultraconservative Islamist and ally of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, upholding his seven-year sentence for forging official documents to run for presidency in 2012, a judicial source has said.

Egypt's foreign ministry has defended a recent rash of death sentences against Islamists accused of violence, slamming western condemnation of the rulings as "flagrant interference" in its judicial system.

Al Shabaab Islamist militants attacked a government building housing two ministries in the Somali capital on Tuesday, setting off two big blasts before gunmen stormed inside, killing at least 10 people, police and the rebels said.

Egypt's Foreign Ministry expressed on Monday its "strong disapproval" of what it described as a Turkish "intervention" in judicial affairs, in the wake of 14 death sentences issued to Muslim Brotherhood leaders and supporters.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese led the Orthodox Easter mass at St. Mark Cathedral in Abassiya Saturday.

An alleged member of the Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested for manufacturing dozens of explosive devices in his apartment in Sheikh Zayed city on the outskirts of Cairo, according to a Monday police statement.

A bomb placed in a garbage bin targeted the Moroccan Embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, early Monday without killing or wounding anyone, in an attack claimed by a local Islamic State affiliate.

Pope Francis on Saturday proclaimed an extraordinary Holy Year starting in December that he said will bring the Roman Catholic Church and its 1.2 billion followers back to basics, focusing them on the need to show mercy toward others.

Nasr City Misdemeanor Court sentenced Mohamed Mahsoub, Mohamed Morsi’s former minister for legal and parliamentarian affairs, to three years in jail Wednesday for fraud, Youm7 reported.

The Islamic concept of “Jihad” has been misused for the alleged goal of establishing an “Islamic caliphate”, while the concept is not meant to impose Islam on others, according to the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayyeb.

Egypt's armed forces killed 29 suspected militants and arrested 32 more in security campaigns on the Sinai peninsula this week, the army spokesman said on Thursday.

Archbishop Anglios al-Naqady, representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Ethiopia, said the Church "prays every day for the success of Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi."

Turkish President, Teyib Recep Erdogan said the release of ousted Egypt President, Mohamed Morsi and the cancellation of death sentences against his supporters is a prerequisite for reviewing relations with Egypt.“Morsi is an elected president who bagged 52 percent of the vote, he should be released, Erdogan told reporters following his return from Iran.

One NATO coalition soldier was killed in a firefight that broke out between NATO and Afghan troops in east Afghanistan, the coalition said in a statement.

Security forces have shot a suspected assailant during an attack on the Imbaba police station in Giza, in which a police officer was injured, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

The life sentences of 10 Muslim Brotherhood protesters were upheld by the Cassation Court Wednesday for allegedly killing a cab driver in Mansoura in 2013, Youm7 reported.

With the continuation of Operation Decisive Storm, which the Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out against the Houthis in Yemen since March 26, more positions continue to emerge on the operation — some in support and some opposed — thus redrawing the map of alliances in the region.

An Egyptian misdemeanors court sentenced six leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood to 15 years in jail in absentia, and three years to six other members who were present in court on Wednesday for inciting murder of policemen, Aswat Masriya reported.

Egypt's state media regulator has warned the broadcaster of a controversial show discussing Islam that it should revise the show's content, its head told Ahram Online on Monday.

A total of 525 Egyptians have fled Yemen since the Saudi-led coalition started airstrikes on 25 March, according to a Monday statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry.

An Egyptian prosecutor has referred nearly 190 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to a military court over charges of storming a police station nearly two years ago.