CAIRO - Due to the security vacuum resulting from the police withdrawal during the January 25 revolution, thuggery was on the increase in Egypt, according to local newspapers. “About 100,000 thugs are spreading chaos and threatening ordinary people in cities and villages,” revealed the Ministry of Interior.

CAIRO - While many local shops displayed a big collection of salted fish as a feverish appetite for seafood hit the nation ahead of Monday's Sham el-Nisseem (a springtime festival), Cairo consumers were angry with the Government for a mighty 45 per cent increase in the prices of their favourite dish of fessikh and herrings.

CAIRO - Political groups with a secular vision of Egypt are racing to build a coalition to compete against the nation's better established Islamists in parliamentary elections planned for September.

CAIRO - The head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawi met US' senator John McCain on Saturday, the official Middle East News Agency reported.

CAIRO: Egypt's state prosecutor has renewed the detention of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak for another 15 days amid a probe into a deadly crackdown on protesters and corruption, MENA news agency said Friday.

CAIRO: Hundreds of supporters of a radical Muslim Egyptian cleric called on the United States to release him in a rare public demonstration by Islamists who have become more vocal since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

CAIRO – Egypt's Mufti Ali Gomaa asserted on Wednesday that Egyptian unity can't be destabilised because Egyptian ties are strong enough to overcome any difficulties, the official Middle East News Agency reported.

CAIRO - A state-appointed committee concluded on Tuesday that Egyptian police used excessive force against pro-democracy protesters in a damning report on their conduct during the unrest that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

CAIRO: The official fact-finding mission investigating the death toll of Egypt’s revolution released on Tuesday its final report, saying that at least 846 were killed and 6,467 injured during the popular uprising that toppled the Egyptian regime and forced president Hosni Mubarak to step down in February.

CAIRO – Hundreds of Egyptians on Monday protested against the appointment of a Christian governor in the southern city of Qena, as officials scrambled to end the four-day crisis, security officials said.

CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR) condemned the recent reshuffling and appointment of new governors in Egypt that excluded women, describing it as “disappointing and contradictory to the principles of citizenship, justice and equality.”

CAIRO - An Egyptian State-run watchdog agency of Monday officially notified the Justice Ministry's Illicit Gains Agency of the fortune of former president Hosni Mubarak and his family members, disclosing that most of their wealth were 'real estate'.

CAIRO - A pledge recently made by two leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the strongest opposition force in Egypt, to set up a purely Islamic state in this country, has fuelled fears about the Islamists' agenda in post-Mubarak Egypt.

CAIRO: Disbanding former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) was a big strike to the endeavors of some members to give it a new shape relatively different from the old one, political analyst Nabil Abdel-Fatah told Daily News Egypt on Sunday.

TEHRAN - An Egyptian Islamist and a long-time opponent of the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak has held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH - Egyptian former President Hosni Mubarak is still in Sharm El-Sheikh Hospital along with his wife Suzanne, Egypt's state news agency MENA quoted an official source as saying on Sunday.

CAIRO (Update 1) - Egypt will put on trial the former prime minister and his finance minister on charges of profiteering and squandering public funds, the public prosecutor's office said on Sunday.

CAIRO - Zahi Hawass, Egypt's Minister of State for Archaeological Affairs, has announced that a foreign company is going to market and sell the clothes he wore while engaged in archaeological excavations, with the proceeds going to the Children Cancer’s Hospital 57357, an international-standard charitable institution.

CAIRO: Egypt's state prosecutor decided Friday to move ailing ex-president Hosni Mubarak to a military hospital, then to prison when his health improves, in a probe over a deadly crackdown on protesters that could send him to the gallows, state media reported.

CAIRO (Update) - Saturday Egypt's Higher Administrative Court ordered the dissolution of the previously ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), meeting one major demand of the protesters, after the detention of ailing former President Hosni Mubarak and key figures of his regime.

CAIRO: Twenty newly-appointed governors will be sworn in on Saturday before the head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawy.