A court in Egypt on Monday jailed Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie to life in prison for inciting clashes that killed six people, in his third such sentence.

The 71-year-old has already been sentenced to life terms in two other separate cases, as well as being handed down a death sentence along with 182 others for inciting violence in which two policemen were killed last August.

An Egyptian court Monday ordered the release on bail of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a top activist of the revolt against ex-President Hosni Mubarak, at his retrial in a case where he had been sentenced to 15 years.

Abdel Fattah, one of the most prominent faces of the 2011 uprising, is being retried after he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of assaulting a policeman at an illegal protest.

A textile dyeing factory collapsed in Egypt, killing six people and injuring 22 in an accident blamed on poor construction, authorities said Monday.

Tehran ridiculed an international conference on the jihadist threat that opened in Paris on Monday, insisting the Islamic State cannot be defeated without the support of its ally Damascus.

Neither Iran nor Syria were invited to the meeting in the French capital, despite the Damascus government's involvement in almost daily military action against IS.

Seven jihadists were killed in a shootout in Egypt's Sinai peninsula during a joint operation by police and the army, Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said Sunday.

The seven men were among "the most dangerous elements of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis" and had taken part in a July attack on a border post with Libya that killed 22 soldiers, he told a news conference.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he had "frank" talks on human rights with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Saturday in a meeting to bolster an anti-Islamic State coalition.

"The United States doesn't ever trade its concern for human rights for any other objectives," Kerry said at a news conference with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Egypt was on the frontline of fighting "terrorism" as he sought Cairo's support for a coalition against Islamic State jihadists.

"Egypt is on the frontline of the fight against terrorism, particularly when it comes to fighting extremist groups in Sinai," Kerry told a press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri.

Leaders of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood exiled in Qatar will leave the Gulf country after it came under enormous pressure to cut support for the Islamist group, a Brotherhood official said.

Amr Darrag, a leader of the Brotherhood's political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, said several members were relocating to "spare Qatar embarrassment", in a statement posted on his Facebook page late Friday.

Amnesty International called Friday for the release of more than 20 demonstrators including two prominent female activists detained in June for defying Egypt's controversial law on protests.

Security forces arrested the group on June 21 after dispersing a demonstration near Etihadeya presidential palace in Cairo calling for the release of political detainees and scrapping of the law.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat has rejected the so-called self-security, reiterating his warning from the rise of terrorist threats in Lebanon and inquiring the U.S. about planned airstrikes against jihadists in the region.

“Self-security leads to total chaos,” Jumblat warned in remarks published in As Safir newspaper on Friday amid reports that certain Lebanese factions were arming themselves to confront terrorists.