CAIRO: A number of labor activists said they would resort to “political blackmail” using the parliamentary and presidential elections as pressure to push for a higher minimum wages.

CAIRO: People's Assembly Speaker Ahmed Fathi Sorour reiterated Egypt’s rejection of foreign monitoring of the upcoming parliamentary elections, saying that it is a domestic issue and that foreign intervention would be considered an insult to national sovereignty.

CAIRO: Egypt's intelligence chief and foreign minister are to travel to Washington on Tuesday for talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the floundering Middle East peace process, the state-owned daily Al-Ahram reported.

CAIRO: Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members held a demonstration on Thursday at Al-Mansheya square in Alexandria while dozens protested in front of the city’s security directorate, spurred by the prevention of MB-affiliated candidates from submitting their registration papers for the parliamentary elections.

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak condemned Saturday threats by the Al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq against Coptic Christians in Egypt and promised to protect them, according to official MENA news agency

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court issued a ruling requiring that Egypt's Minister of Information Anas al-Fiqqi should allocate broadcasting time on state-run Egyptian Television to all political parties in order to allow them to present their election platforms

A coordinator for the popular coalition for the support of Gamal Mubarak in the 2011 presidential election Magdi al-Kurdi said that Gamal Mubarak would win the presidential election even if he ran against Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, according to Egypt's paper almasri alyoum

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released a report on Thursday said that Egypt ranks as a medium development country, coming 101 out of 169 countries on the human development index

CAIRO: Regulations for public media coverage guidelines and the electoral process of the People’s Assembly elections taking place in November were announced by the Ministry of Information and the Supreme Electoral Commission, respectively.

Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, an Egyptian blogger serving a four-year prison term for inciting unrest and antipathy to Islam, has not been released despite serving out the end of his sentence, journalists and activists close to Suleiman say

Former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Mohamed ElBaradei said Monday that he would not run in Egypt's presidential elections slated for next year, according to the German press agency (DPA)

CAIRO: Regulations for public media coverage guidelines and the electoral process of the People’s Assembly elections taking place in November were announced by the Ministry of Information and the Supreme Electoral Commission, respectively.

CAIRO: An Egyptian activist has been awarded the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary activism by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in recognition of his work defending civil rights and personal freedoms in Egypt.

CAIRO: Regulations for public media coverage guidelines and the electoral process of the People’s Assembly elections taking place in November were announced by the Ministry of Information and the Supreme Electoral Commission, respectively.

CAIRO: Egypt moved up 10 points in a consumer confidence index during the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, scoring 98 points to rank 21st worldwide.

CAIRO - Egypt's information minister on Monday ordered the reissuing of new licenses for private TV satellite uplinks amid criticism that the state aims to tighten government control over the media ahead of parliamentary elections.

CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak’s decision to postpone the annual conference of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) was unpredictable, political analyst and senior researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies Nabil Abdel-Fatah told Daily News Egypt on Sunday.

Egypt's sources said that the decision to set the private-sector minimum wage at LE400 a month will be reviewed

Participants of a conference organized by the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession on Sunday demanded regulatory legislation pertaining to inspections of prisons and state security camps by general prosecution members

CAIRO - Scores of Muslim fundmentalists protested Friday afternoon outside a famous mosque in Cairo against a recent decision religious satellite TV channels.

Former UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei blasted Egypt's "authoritarian" government and insisted political change was coming, in an interview on Saturday with the Austrian daily Kurier