The Egyptian presidency said that Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak and Israeli President Shimon Peres discussed Sunday efforts to relaunch direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians

CAIRO- Three major Egyptian oppostion have rebuffed calls for boycotting the forthcoming legislative and presidential elections.

MANSURA- An Egyptian man jumped off a police station in the Nile Delta town of Bani Ebeid to escape alleged torture.Mohamed Salah Mahmoud, a 18-year-old driver, is now lying in a hospital under security after surving the jump, said his family.

PARIS- President Hosni Mubarak Monday meets his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on peacemaking in the Middle East, a senior Egyptian official has said.

CAIRO - Rivalry for Egypt’s rule has gathered speed after supporters of President Hosni Mubarak’s

CAIRO - Egypt Monday denied that the five rockets, which fell near the Israeli beach resort of Eilat and Jordan's port of Aqaba were fired from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

Russian state grain trader United Grain Company (UGC) Monday denied that it had defaulted on a wheat shipment to Egypt, adding it was considering legal procedings against its counterparty in the deal

CAIRO - A new group of activists Sunday announced plans to stage a massive protest outside the Egyptian Cabinet building in central Cairo this month against rising food prices and what they termed as the “exploitation of traders”.

CAIRO--A stoppage-time goal from Wael Gomaa earned Ahly a 2-1 home victory over Ismaili on Sunday evening to dent their bitter rivals' hopes of reaching the African Champions League semi finals.

CAIRO - The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) will announce its candidate for the 2011 presidential elections next may, according to a senior official.

SOHAG (Egypt)-Prosecutors in the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag have ordered a Coptic chef in a monastery be remanded for four days pending further investigations on making a false alert.

Mercosur, a South American trade bloc that groups big agricultural exporters Brazil and Argentina, will sign a free-trade deal with Egypt next week, the Egyptian trade minister said on Friday.

CAIRO-Egypt will face DR Congo on August 11 after calling off a friendly against Togo, the team's assistant coach Hamada Sedki said on Saturday.

CAIRO-An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced a boat owner, accused of killing 10 girls during a Nile outing, to 10 years in jail.

CAIRO- An Egyptian opposition figure has launched a campaign against what he called attempts to hand over to the younger son of President Hosni Mubarak.

A customs committee headed Friday for Luxor to finalize procedures to fly King Tutankhamun's chariot to New York to join the Discovery Times Square Exposition exhibit of the famed boy ruler.

ALEXANDRIA(Egypt) - The victim's lawyers in a trial of two Egyptian policemen involved in the death of a young man demanded Tuesday that the defendants face torture charges in a case that has focused national attention on police brutality in Egypt.

El ARISH(Egypt) - Egyptian security forces arrested Wednesday two groups of African migrants as they attempted to cross the country's porous Sinai peninsula border into Israel.

CAIRO: Egyptian journalists still encounter laws restricting their freedom of speech and expression, despite considerable progress in allowing a wider margin of freedom, said a recent report.

CAIRO: A recent campaign to promote the nomination of Gamal Mubarak — son of incumbent President Mubarak — for the presidency in 2011 is nothing but a fiasco, general coordinator of Kefaya Abdel-Halim Qandil told Daily News Egypt on Monday.

The seizures were part of a new campaign underway to expose tunnels used by Palestinians to smuggle goods into Gaza, which proliferated exponentially as Israel's four-year siege intensified during 2008-9.