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A powerful auto bomb exploded early Thursday near a national security building in a popular residential neighborhood in Cairo, wounding 29 people including at least six police officers.

Egypt’s interior ministry said that a auto had exploded outside the police building, which houses a centre for investigating threats to national security, in the early hours of Thursday morning. Its homegrown status likely makes it more attentive to local sentiment. Wrecked...

A wide crater was left behind by the blast near the four-storey concrete building. Of those hurt, 11 were police and soldiers. No deaths were reported.

Meanwhile, the US State Department warned the new law may amount to further human rights violations, but nevertheless expressed support for Egypt’s security and stability.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued an anti-terrorism law on August 15, which grants prosecutors greater power to arrest suspects and withhold them from due process as well as the ability to execute deep and “potentially indefinitive surveillance” of potential...

The Islamic State’s black flag could be seen in the background, and a knife pierces the sand next to the headless body.

The IS radio station said on Thursday that its Egyptian affiliate killed a Croatian hostage, the first word from the extremist group a day after a gruesome image of his beheading circulated online.

Terror tracker SITE Intel Group’s head Rita Katz had tweeted a grab from the video which showed the Croatian man dressed in a faded yellow jumpsuit kneeling before a knife-weilding ISIS fighter in fatigues.

“We’ve obviously seen Prime Minister Milanovic’s statement about the reported murder of a Croatian citizen Tomislav Salopek by ISIL terrorists in Egypt. We understand the government of Croatia is still working to confirm this brutal act”.

During a phone call on Thursday 13/8/2015 with his Croatian counterpart Vesna Pusic, Shoukry said Egypt is doing its best to arrest the captors. It would be the first slaying of a foreign captive in Egypt, with the release of a video of him alive and then a photo of the alleged...

The group has also posted videos appearing to show the killings of Egyptians it accuses of helping the Egyptian government or Israel.

Egypt is to unveil a major extension of the Suez Canal on Thursday, a mega-project that has emerged as a cornerstone of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s efforts to restore national pride and revive the economy after years of unrest.

“It’s not about capacity, it all depends on trade between East and West, growth in the world economy, especially in Europe, and how the (authority) handles its fees”, said Xu Zhibin, managing director for the Egyptian affiliate of China’s state-owned...

An Egyptian court adjourned a verdict on Thursday in the retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists on terrorism-related charges.

It may help Kerry and President Barack Obama counter one argument advanced by critics – that the deal must be bad because it’s opposed by both Arab states and Israel, which agree on little else.