Two Canadians have been arrested in Egypt amid spiraling bloodshed in the Mideast nation, a Canadian official said Monday.

"The Government of Canada is very concerned that two Canadian citizens have been arrested in Egypt," Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Lynne Yelich said in a statement.

A U.S. aircraft carrier and accompanying warships have passed through the Suez Canal en route to the Arabian Sea despite strains in U.S.-Egypt relations, the Navy said Monday.

The USS Harry Truman, along with two guided-missile destroyers and two cruisers, transited the strategic canal on Sunday without incident for a mission designed to promote "stability" in the region and provide air support for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, the Navy said in a statement.

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur on Monday urged Egypt's military to remain "firm" despite condemnation of a crackdown on Islamist protesters, saying the fate of the country was at stake.

"Jordan's position towards what is happening in Egypt seeks to support the state. The Egyptian state must not melt or erode or turn into a failed country," Nsur told a news conference.

Outside a morgue in Egypt's capital, a woman mediates between her parents. Her mother cannot believe the decomposing body before them is their son. Her father insists that it is.

"What's going on? Why hasn't anyone claimed this body," shouts one man, a surgical mask pulled below his mouth.

Egypt's Coptic Catholic community on Monday offered its support for the armed forces against what it defined as "terrorist" violence by supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

In a message relayed by the Italian episcopal news agency SIR, Catholic Coptic Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak said there were no real divisions between Christians and Muslims in Egypt.

Amnesty International Monday denounced the "utter carnage" in Egypt, after clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi killed hundreds across the country in the past week.

The London-based rights group also said the international community's response to the political crisis in Egypt, where the clashes between Islamist protesters and security forces left more than 800 people dead since August 14, was "weak and ineffective".

The political instability across the Middle East could last for decades, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday.

Hague said the turbulence in the Middle East was the most significant event of the 21st century so far, but urged optimism over the prospects for peaceful democracy in the region.

Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak has been granted conditional release in one of the corruption cases against him, but will remain in custody on charges in an additional case, judicial sources said Monday.

His lawyer plans to appeal against the fourth and final case, which is also related to corruption, in a bid to secure the former president's release, according to a judicial source.

Three boats carrying more than 200 migrants have landed in Italy, officials said on Monday, the latest arrivals due to calmer weather and unrest in north Africa.

Some 100 people including 17 women and 11 children arrived on one boat that was intercepted by coast guard vessels and taken to Catania in Sicily.

Turkey's Islamic-rooted government on Monday accused the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and its Turkish secretary general of remaining indifferent to the bloodshed in Egypt.

Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said he would have resigned as head of the OIC because "I couldn't accept the stance of an Islamic organization whose name carries the word Islam in the face of such brutality."