Egyptian authorities have denied permission to eight American nonprofits to operate locally, the Associated Press reports. Nonprofits subject to the order include the Carter Center, which monitors elections and had planned to oversee upcoming elections in the country.

The move raises questions about whether next month's presidential election, the first since the 2011 ouster of longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, will be transparent and fairly contested. The months leading…

Egyptian officials have said the Egyptian government will stand down in a dispute with Washington over funding for civil society groups in the country out of concern that a continuation of the standoff could jeopardize billions of dollars of U.S. aid, Reuters reports.

Nineteen Americans are among the forty foreign and domestic pro-democracy…