Top Headlines

• President Sisi pardoned100 of Egyptian activists including Aljazeera reporter Mohamed Fahmy & others. (Wenesday)
• Egypt says police killed militants who attacked the Italian consulate. (Friday)

Al-Jazeera journalist after their release in Cairo- via AP

 Main Headlines

Monday

• Bodies of Mexico tourists killed in Egypt to be flown home
• Hamas rejects construction of ‘water channels’ along Gaza border
• 49 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members have been arrested
• ISIS claim Egyptian affiliate is responsible for Cairo’s Ahmed Orabi bomb
• 10 female protesters were referred to criminal court
• Residents block Cairo’s ring road to protest frequent water cut ‪
• 11 ‘homosexuals’ were arrested in pre-Eid morality raids
• Many Egyptian parliamentary candidates test positive for drug use
• Court sentences former Egypt housing minister to three years in jail
• Coptic pope to visit Ethiopia

Tuesday

• Rights group says civilians harmed in Egypt’s Sinai campaign
• Cabinet: Egypt has complied with international law in Sinai
• Egyptian army kills 10 militants in Behariya
• April 6 Youth Movement says leader has been arrested
• Sisi discusses a number of issues with the French president
• Detention renewed for 15 days for former agriculture minister
• Secretary General of Social Democratic Party: Next parliament will be worst in Egypt’s history will be the worst of Egypt’s history

Wednesday

• Egyptian President has pardoned 100 prisoners, including two Al-Jazeera journalists
• CPJ welcomes Al-Jazeera pardons, calls for all other journalists in Egypt to be freed
• AlJazeera welcomes the release of journalists
• France says Egypt to buy warships after Russia deal scrapped
• Egypt’s armed forces seize explosives stores in Giza and Al-Arish
• Army announces second phase of ‘Retribution for the Martyr.’

Thursday

• 30 Egyptians injured in deadly Mecca’s hajj stampede
• Egyptian activists welcome the pardon of 100 prisoners, but demand more
• Hamas accuses Egypt of further besieging the Gaza Strip by flooding the border area
• Early campaigning for parliament, minor clashes mark Eid celebrations
• Anti-sexual harassment group documents 87 incidents on first day of Eid

Friday

• Egypt says police killed militants who attacked the Italian consulate
• Death toll among Egyptian pilgrims reaches 14 in hajj stampede
• Presidency: Egypt keen to participate effectively in the U.N. General Assembly
• US welcomes Egypt’s pardon of prisoners
• Sisi tells the UN: All factions must contribute to Egypt’s prosperity
• Conflicting reports on killing of “9 Muslim Brotherhood members”

 Saturday

• Two Egyptian policemen were killed in a roadside bombing
• State of Sinai claims responsibility for roadside bombing in Al-Arish
• 6 April founder Amr Ali appears in Tora prison
• Number of tourists in Egypt rose by 8.2 percent in 2015
• 399 Egyptians return home from Libya

 Sunday

• AP Interview: Egyptian president el-Sissi says country in a “ferocious war”
• Netanyahu praises Sisi’s call to expand Egypt-Israel peace to other Arab states ‪
• 55 Egyptians dead in Mecca stampede
• Open letter calls on Obama and Ban to raise Ahmed Maher detention with Al-Sisi
• Obama/Putin meeting on ‪Ukraine, snubs US ally Egypt
• Pope Tawadros II heads Sunday mass in Ethiopia
• Elections commission says several candidates have started illegally campaigning
• IAEA interested in assisting Egypt in Dabaa’s nuclear power plant

 Good Reports

• Nour Party, Egypt’s political Islam sole survivor, left with dim hopes. Sherif Tarek
• Egypt’s war on terrorism bears fruits. Khaled Abu Toameh
• Egypt’s Coptic cinema on the brink of extinction. George Mikhail
• With limited aspirations, Nour is largest Islamist party after crackdown on Brotherhood left with dim hopes
• Eni’s winning gas streak leaves competition chafing

Good Read

• What the discovery of offshore gas means for Cairo. Yuri M. Zhukov
• Mexico is outraged over citizens killed in Egypt but ignores the dead at home. Daniel Pena
• How can Egypt’s Prime Minister succeed? Abdel Latif Al-Menawy
• Alexandria no longer easy gain for political Islam, argues novelist-researcher Alaa Khaled. Dina Ezzat

Video

• Summery of Egypt’s president with the Associated Press
• ‘I still can’t believe it’, says pardoned Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy

Interview

• 5 questions Salafi Nour party’s parliamentary candidate Amr al-Mekky.
• On the run: Interview with Egyptian atheist Sherif Gaber

Timeline

• A look Egypt’s Al-Jazeera English trial

 From Twitter 

Plus

• UK Ambassador to Egypt reflects on his usage of social media
• Ali Salem, author of iconic play Madrasset El-Mushaghebeen dies at 79
• Egypt approves use of radar tests on Tutankhamun tomb
• Memoires of an Egyptology guru

Photo Gallery:

• Men, women and children pray Eid Al-Adha in Egypt

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt.