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-- An Egyptian opposition leader has played down the withdrawal of Al Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal party, from an opposition coalition.

Egypt's inflation was little changed in June after easing for four months in a row, supporting the Egyptian Central Bank's decision to hold interest rates at a four-year low, according to Bloomberg

A president of Egypt's Trade Union Federation (TUF) Hussein Megawer said that Egypt's government is eager to protect the interests of approximately 8 million irregular workers in the areas of agriculture, fishing, construction, trade and transportation

CAIRO--Their erstwhile unanimity divided, lawyers in the Delta Governorate of Menoufiya Saturday unilaterally ended a one-month strike they were staging in solidarity with two colleagues jailed for five years, and slammed the Bar Association's efforts to resolve their crisis with the nation's prosecutors and judges as a failure.

TALKHA (Egypt)- Scores of Egyptian anti-riot policemen were Saturday depolyed in the Nile Delta town of Talkha as members of a pro-reform group started their meeting. Clashes erupted between the police and several people who wanted to attend the meeting arranged by the National Coalition for Change set up by Mohamed ElBaradei, the former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog.

CAIRO--Egypt's annual urban inflation rate edged up to 10.7 per cent in June, a moderate rise that analysts do not expect will prompt the bank to raise interest rates this month.

Egypt has destroyed hundreds of Palestinian tunnels across its border with the Gaza Strip as part of the joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the enclave, said Press TV

The Cairo-based Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture has accused two Egypt's police officers from the Beni Abid Police Department of torturing a Mansoura man before throwing him from the fourth floor of a police station, said Egypt's paper almasri alyoum

Egypt's economic growth may accelerate this fiscal year helped by consumer spending, though it will probably remain below what the government says is needed to keep unemployment from rising, said Bloomberg

CAIRO- An Egyptian opposition figure has said that a decision by three major opposition parties to participate in the country's forthcoming legislative and presidential elections will "divide" opposition. "I am

Controversial Egyptian thinker and professor of Arabic Studies Nasr Hamed Abu Zayd died Monday morning in a Cairo hospital of a virus described by his doctors as “rare.”

CAIRO- Gamal Mubarak, a senior official in the ruling National Democratic Party, has said that the party is keen to see justice "run its course" in the case of an activist whose family says has been beaten to death by two plainclothes policemen.

CAIRO- An independent group, seeking the release of an Islamist, has said it will hold a protest outside the Press Syndicate in Cairo on Monday.

CAIRO- Egypt's ambitious plan for expanding its tourism industry, which absorbs 12.6 per cent of the nation’s labour force, is moving ahead in accordance with President Hosni Mubarak’s electoral programme, Tourism Minister Zoheir Garranah has said.

CAIRO: Bedouins of North Sinai are demanding that the Ministry of Interior release all detainees and reexamine cases filed against some Bedouin leaders in absentia, which they allege have been “fabricated.”

Egypt's district of Alexandria Attorney Yasir Rafai has ordered that two Egyptian policemen from the Sidi Gabr Police Department, be detained for investigation

CAIRO - The Bar Association denied Saturday that two lawyers, sentenced to five years in prison for assaulting a junior judge, had submitted an apology to him, as their appeal hearing resumes Sunday in the Delta city of Tanta amid mounting tension between Egypt’s lawyers and judges.

ISMAILIA - Egypt on Saturday released seven Bedouin detainees in an effort to improve tense relations between the Bedouin and the government, security sources said.