EGYPT'S antiquities authority has announced the discovery of a new set of tombs for the workers who built the great Pyramids. Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, says the tombs are significant

An Egyptian soldier was killed, and four Palestinians wounded, in a gun battle on

The Egyptian Government will soon propose a third economic stimulus package totalling LE11.2 billion ($2 billion) to Parliament, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said on Tuesday.

The Egyptian Ministries of Health and Education will start vaccinating school students next Saturday, in six different governorates against AH1N1, commonly known as Swine Flu.

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) First Deputy General Guide Mohamed Habib said the group's Guidance Bureau formed a committee to amend the internal rules and regulations.

Egyptian Finance Ministry plans to deepen the country’s bond markets by selling fewer benchmark maturities in larger amounts, helping reduce borrowing costs and providing better guidelines for corporate borrowers

International activists from 43 countries have appealed to Egypt to reverse a decision denying them access to the blockaded Gaza Strip for a solidarity march

A senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood group reported that the next leader of the group will have to heal divisions between moderates and conservatives if the opposition group is to have any political role

French protesters camped out in front of the their embassy in Cairo to protest a ban on them from travelling from Egypt to Gaza for a march in support of the blockaded Palestinian enclave.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would hold talks in Egypt on Tuesday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The Islamic Hamas movement sent dozens of children to demonstrate on Gaza's southern borders with Egypt Saturday in protest against an underground barrier Egypt is building to curb smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

A Spokesman of Egyptian Foreign Ministry Hossam Zaki reported that a Gaza-bound aid convoy in Jordan led by British MP George Galloway will not be allowed into Egypt through the Red Sea port of Nuweiba -- the most direct route

General Secretary of the Arab League, Amr Moussa reported running for president in Egypt's 2011 elections is a "difficult matter or even impossible."

The Egyptian government announced that there were over 40,000 refugees living in Egypt, from 38 countries, with Iraq, Sudan, and Somalia being in the majority

Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass announced on Wednesday that he will hold a conference in the first quarter of 2010 to coordinate the strategy of African and Asian countries who had artifacts 'stolen' from within their borders

German officials have ruled out returning an ancient bust of Queen Nefertiti to Egypt - saying it is too fragile to be transported. And they have insisted that the bust was acquired legally by the Prussian state nearly a century ago.

Egypt's Minister of Finance Youssef Boutros-Ghali extended yesterday submitting statements for a controversial property tax until March 31 instead of December 31, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit reported Egypt said that no country should interfere in its decisions that aimed at protecting the security and safety of its territories

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's main opposition Muslim Brotherhood has begun voting for a new leader despite disputes over the process, senior members said.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Monday on the second day of a visit to boost ties with his country's main trade partner in the region

Nine members of the Egyptian parliament submitted a motion yesterday calling on parliament to revoke confidence from the ministers of education and higher education, according to Egypt's Newspaper