A string of attacks killed nine members of Egypt's security and military forces and hit the country's main satellite communications station, in an apparent retaliation by Islamic militants.

A New Zealand freelance journalist has been released after being detained in Egypt amid clashes between rival groups.

Egypt's former leader Hosni Mubarak claimed the United States was plotting to overthrow him as far back as 2005.

Egyptian troops and tanks backed by helicopter gunships swept through villages in the northern Sinai Peninsula near the border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip.

Egypt's interior minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when a suspected car bomb tore through his convoy, wounding 22 people and leaving a major Cairo boulevard strewn with debris.

A panel of Egyptian judges has recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood, adding momentum to a push by authorities to ban the ousted president's main backer and a pillar of political Islam in the region.

Egypt's top prosecutor has referred ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to trial on charges of inciting the killing of opponents protesting outside his palace while he was in office, the state news agency said.

Kiwi journalist Wayne Hay has been celebrating his release from detention in Egypt with a cold beer.

Riot police backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers and helicopters Wednesday swept away two encampments of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, setting off running street battles in Cairo and other Egyptian cities. At least 192 people were killed nationwide, many of them in the crackdown on the protest sites.

The family of ousted President Mohammed Morsi has furiously denounced the military, accusing it of "kidnapping" him.

The nation is divided against itself. On one side are the liberals who want to live in a tolerant, secular society.

Egypt's military authorities ordered the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader yesterday for inciting an outbreak of violence that left at least 51 of the movement's supporters dead.

The grainy film captures the soldier as he shoots from his vantage point on top of the yellow stone building.

Fresh from toppling the country's first democratically elected leader, Egypt's military risked further outrage from the Muslim Brotherhood by arresting the group's Supreme Guide as he was staying in a resort by the Mediterranean coast.

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's embattled President, stared down his last stand as the country faced a second revolution.

The demonstrations in Brazil began after a small rise in bus fares triggered mass protests.

In Manshiet Dahshur, 35km south of Cairo, the villagers recently extended the boundaries of the cemetery. For Ahmed Rageb, a carpenter who buried his cousin in the annexe, it was a logical decision.