(Reuters) - Egypt's interim prime minister was assembling his cabinet on Sunday to lead the country under an army-backed "road map" to restore civil rule, with peace having returned to the streets after the military removed President Mohamed Mursi. Hazem el-Beblawi, a 76-year-old liberal economist appointed interim prime minister last week, is tapping ...

Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak will be placed under house arrest if he is freed from prison, the interim government has ordered. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said that he ordered Mubarak be put under house arrest as part of the emergency measures put in place this month, Reuters reported. In the context ...

Egypt's army-backed interim prime minister has defended the government's decision to order the crushingof camps of supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi, saying the authorities had no choice but to act. In a televised statement late on Wednesday, Hazem el-Beblawi said the decision to break up the protests "was not easy" and came only after ...