Al-Masry Al-Youm

Senior leaders in Egypt’s Orthodox Church denominational council have announced they will join opposition groups’ 30 June protests to demand early presidential elections.

The Wall Street Journal

From ancient Egypt to imperial China, those who could best manage great rivers have ruled

Until the Aswan dam was built, the Nile (above, late 19th century) stood apart
among the world's great rivers for its natural system of irrigation, with annual
floods that miraculously corresponded to the needs of farmers.
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It is a testament to the power of rivers that Yu the Great, the founding hero of ancient China's Yellow River civilization, was a water engineer. In the 23rd century B.C., as the legend goes, he tamed the deadly floods that gave the river the nickname "China's sorrow" by diverting its muddy waters into irrigation channels for nourishing fields of millet and wheat.

Reuters

(Reuters) - Egypt does not want war with Ethiopia but will keep "all options open", President Mohamed Mursi said on Monday, turning up the heat in a dispute over a giant dam Addis Ababa is building across the Nile.

Washington Post

Egyptian protesters burn a poster with the photo of Egyptian President
Mohammed Morsi with Arabic that reads, “ Rebel, Muslim Brotherhood
will fall on June 30 at the Itihadiya Palace,” Cairo, Egypt, June 11, 2013.

CAIRO — Egypt’s largest opposition group on Tuesday rejected calls by the president for national reconciliation talks as “too late” as pro and anti-government protesters briefly clashed ahead of plans for a mass rally calling for his ouster later this month.

Washington Post

 LUXOR, Egypt — An Egyptian court has convicted a Coptic Christian teacher of blasphemy but didn’t hand down a prison sentence and only imposed a fine on her.

Reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign minister, vowing not to give up "a single drop of water from the Nile", said on Sunday he would go to Addis Ababa to discuss a giant dam that Ethiopia has begun building in defiance of Cairo's objections.

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention to the UN Human Rights Council (the Council) today, 7 June 2013, in which it discussed the state of human rights in Egypt under President Morsi.

Al Monitor

Egypt should press for prosecution of government-funded clerics, government officials and others who incite violence, while disciplining government-funded clerics who preach hatred.

Coptic Christians pray during a Coptic Orthodox Easter mass at the
main cathedral in Cairo May 4, 2013

In June 2012, more than 16 months following the Tahrir Square revolution and the end of Hosni Mubarak’s reign, Egypt went to the polls and elected Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi as its new president.