Mohamed Morsi

Following the ousting of Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi, Chinese state media ran editorials warning of the failures of Western democracy.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi a strategic alliance and sought to restore diplomatic ties between the two nations at a meeting in Cairo Tuesday.

Egypt has requested a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to boost the country’s economy.

Egypt’s water resources and irrigation minister Hisham Qandil was appointed prime minister by President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday.

Egypt’s lower house of Parliament convened Tuesday despite the country’s highest court saying a day earlier that the legislative body is dissolved and cannot reassemble.

The high court of Egypt on Monday said that President Mohamed Mursi does not have the right to reinstate the lower house of Parliament after the body was dissolved last month.

Newly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered Sunday that the country’s lower parliament be reinstated, weeks after it was dissolved by the ruling military council.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi was sworn in on Saturday night as Egypt’s first freely elected president since the country’s revolution 16 months ago.

Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi was declared the victor in Egypt’s presidential race Sunday; but the ruling junta that has controlled the country since February 2011 is still calling the shots.

Former Egypt President Hosni Mubarak was pronounced “clinically dead” on Tuesday as thousands demonstrated.