
By Tom Perry and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces have thwarted a plan by an al Qaeda-linked cell to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy, capturing three militants, the interior minister said on Saturday. Mohamed Ibrahim said the men, who he accused of having links to militants in the Middle East and Pakistan, were found in possession of 10 kg (22 lb) of aluminum nitrate, which is used to make bombs. He declined to say which embassy had been targeted. ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil will remove Finance Minister Al-Mursi Al-Sayed Hegazy in a reshuffle expected to be completed later on Tuesday, a cabinet source said. Hegazy is expected to be replaced by Fayyad Abdel Moneim, the source said, giving no further details. Hegazy is an expert on Islamic finance who was appointed in January when Kandil last reshuffled his cabinet. Kandil has said he will replace 11 ministers in the reshuffle. (Reporting by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Tom Perry)

By Paul Taylor and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - It's harvest time in Egypt but the secular opposition is reaping scant benefit from the Muslim Brotherhood's difficulties in government, two years after an Arab Spring uprising swept away President Hosni Mubarak. Many Egyptians are looking to the army, or to more radical Salafi Muslim groups, rather than to liberal or leftist parties as Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and his cabinet struggle to revive a sick economy, restore security and build institutions. ...

By Yasmine Saleh and Paul Taylor CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood is trying to exact revenge on the judiciary for years of imprisonment and political exclusion, but is attacking the wrong target, opposition leader Amr Moussa said on Monday. The elder statesman told Reuters that Egypt faced an exceptional "to-be-or-not-to-be crisis" worse than after its 1967 defeat by Israel, and Islamist President Mohamed Mursi would do better to pursue national unity rather than division. ...
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