CAIRO - Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi on Sunday called on the United States to recognise a Palestinian state, as rival Palestinian factions prepare to sign a reconciliation accord in Cairo. Arabi urged visiting US Congressman Steve Chabot to "press Congress and the American administration to recognise a Palestinian state."

CAIRO - Egypt's military rulers warned on Sunday of strong measures against anyone inciting sectarian strife, in a bid to ease tensions between Muslims and Christians.

CAIRO - More than 20 Egyptian political parties and groups, mainly the leftists, Sunday mark the May Day weeks after the ouster of long-standing Hosni Mubarak. A massive-scale celebration is planned in Al Tahrir Square, the iconic plaza for the anti-Mubarak protests.

CAIRO: Only a few hundred protesters rallied in front of the Qena governorate’s headquarters following Friday prayers to reiterate their demand to sack governor Emad Shehata Mikhael, in what was slated to be a million man march.

CAIRO - Israel is angry that the Rafah border crossing with Gaza is going to be opened, Al-Youm Al-Sabe reports on Saturday. Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi said on Friday that Egypt will permanently open the Rafah border crossing to ease the blockade on Gaza.

CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the country's best organised movement, on Saturday announced

CAIRO: Egypt will permanently open the Rafah border crossing to ease the blockade on Gaza, Foreign Minister Nabil Al-Araby said Friday, sparking Israeli concerns over the implications for regional security.

CAIRO: Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Friday that the Egyptian military has tried over 5,000 civilians in military courts since February.

CAIRO - Unknown saboteurs bombed an Egyptian gas pipeline in Sinai Wednesday, sending flames shooting into the sky and forcing authorities to cut supplies to Israel and Jordan, an official told AFP. The attack took place at dawn near the village of Al-Sabil in the El-Arish region, the security official said, adding that the bomb was activated remotely.

RIYADH - Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf denied tension in the relations between his country and the UAE.

CAIRO-The military rulers Tuesday denied media reports that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are putting pressure on Egypt to drop plans on former president Hosni Mubarak's prosecution.

CAIRO --The two sons of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, Gamal and Alaa, were detained for 15 more days

CAIRO – Egypt's Minister of Social Solidarity Gouda Abdel-Khaleq said on Tuesday that Egypt's economy was extreme critical and difficult due to the weak of production over the past three months, according to Al-Youm Al-Sabe.

CAIRO – Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak is still being treated in Sharm el-Sheikh, a medical resource said on Tuesday.

CAIRO - Around 500 diehard supporters of Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak protested on Monday in Cairo city centre against any attempt by the authorities to prosecute him. The demonstration came a day after the state prosecutor ordered Mubarak, who is under detention at a Red Sea resort hospital on suspicion of involvement in the deaths of protesters, transferred to a military hospital.

CAIRO: Senior US Senator John McCain met Egypt's military chief and foreign minister on Saturday, a day after a trip to the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi, Egyptian television reported.

CAIRO: "Transitional periods are dangerous and they make us all skeptical towards anything so we have to be cautious and know how to hinder domestic or foreign groups from staging a coup and controlling over," senior scholar and founder of the Albert Einstein Institution told Daily News Egypt.

CAIRO - Due to the security vacuum resulting from the police withdrawal during the January 25 revolution, thuggery was on the increase in Egypt, according to local newspapers. “About 100,000 thugs are spreading chaos and threatening ordinary people in cities and villages,” revealed the Ministry of Interior.

CAIRO - While many local shops displayed a big collection of salted fish as a feverish appetite for seafood hit the nation ahead of Monday's Sham el-Nisseem (a springtime festival), Cairo consumers were angry with the Government for a mighty 45 per cent increase in the prices of their favourite dish of fessikh and herrings.

CAIRO - Political groups with a secular vision of Egypt are racing to build a coalition to compete against the nation's better established Islamists in parliamentary elections planned for September.

CAIRO - The head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawi met US' senator John McCain on Saturday, the official Middle East News Agency reported.