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-Egypt plans to build a $1 billion tunnel under the Suez Canal at Port Said and will begin seeking finance as soon as the designs are completed, Al-Akhbar newspaper, on Monday, quoted the Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin as saying.

A Chairman of Egypt's Wafd Party Sayyed el-Badawi said Monday that the establishment of a commission to formulate the Egyptian opposition's demands and send them to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

CAIRO - Workers from a textile factory based in the Delta city of Tanta, who have recently ended a five-week strike outside the Parliament, Monday protested outside the Egyptian Trade Union Federation in downtown Cairo over perceived failure of the Government to fulfil its pledges.

LONDON - A British coroner has begun an inquest into the mysterious death of a wealthy Egyptian businessman

Egypt's Minister of Higher Education Hani Helal said that he will not permit former International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohamed ElBaradei, who is also a potential presidential candidate, to practice politics inside universities

Egyptian Ministry of Interior Affairs decided to release another 20 Bedouin detainees on Monday, as promised Egypt's Interior Minister Habib el-Adli in his meeting with Sinai Bedouin tribal leaders last week

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.