An Egyptian senior government official said that Egypt's Ministry of Trade and Industry learned of the increased taxes on iron, cement and cigarettes from newspaper articles

Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency IAEA, tells FRANCE 24 in an exclusive interview

The trial of two human rights advocates and a blogger charged with defaming a judge adjourned to June 26 at the defendants'

The foreign ministers of Egypt, France and Spain Ahmed Abul-Gheit, Bernard Kouchner and Miguel Moratinos respectively will hold a tripartite meeting in Cairo on Sunday, said French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog who came back to Egypt to push for wider reforms, slammed Saturday the detention of eight activists for collecting signatures to force the Government to amend the constitution.

ROME--During the third Egyptian-Italian Strategic Partnership to be held in Rome on Wednesday, President Hosni Mubarak will discuss with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi investment, trade and funding small and medium enterprises as well as training Egyptian workforce.

CAIRO: A court in Egypt is to rule next month on whether Egyptian men married to Israeli women are to be stripped of their citizenship, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday.

The euro fell to a two-year low in the Egyptian market this week in the wake of the Greek debt woes, which have paid their toll on the euro's foreign exchange versus many currencies worldwide.

Hundreds of Egypt's independent MP Mostafa Bakri supporters from the Egyptian regions of Helwan and Tebbeen protested again yesterday against a recent government decision to abolish their geographic constituency

Egypt's official sources said that the announcement by Ethiopia of the inauguration of its new Tana Beles dam aimed to provoke Egypt's anger and lead it to taking swift diplomatic behavior which would turn global public opinion in favor of upstream Nile countries and away from international legislation contained in the two water conventions of 1929 and 1959

Participants at a conference titled "The Future of Democracy in Egypt" currently being held in New York agreed on

Al-Ahly might face their arch-rivals Zamalek at 7pm on May 26 in the round of 16 in the Egyptian Cup, if both of them make it past the round of 32.

A mobilization campaign is being launched in the United States to gather expatriate Egyptians together to push for legal changes to allow them to vote in the upcoming presidential election

Nearly 100 Egyptian protesters from Geziret Mohamed and Tanash clashed with security forces yesterday on the Cairo ring road.

Egyptian human rights groups Thursday protested over the renewal of a decades-old emergency law, fearing it could be used to influence the outcome of elections in Egypt over the next two years

Egypt has legal evidence to prove its rights in the Nile water. However, these rights should be gained through dialogue with

Not all good things happen in a good way. According to the Egyptian cabinet, they are now investigating charges made in a U.S. court that Daimler AG used bribes in order to get business favors in Egypt, said Benzisider.com

Egypt's Cairo Court ordered Monday to release a member of the Egyptian opposition Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement's Guidance Bureau Osama Nasr Eddin, along with ten other group members in Beheira.

CAIRO: The Supreme Electoral Commission overseeing the upcoming Shoura Council elections began the vetting process Monday for the applications of potential candidates.

Egyptian Government called the parliament Tuesday for an extension of Egypt's controversial emergency law for two years, but restricting it during this period to terrorism and drugs trafficking crimes and with some new limitations on police powers

Orascom Telecom's executive chairman said the firm's Djezzy unit head met with the Algerian finance minister on Monday, but declined to comment further on a wider asset sale Algeria has jeopardised.