CAIRO: A recent campaign to promote the nomination of Gamal Mubarak — son of incumbent President Mubarak — for the presidency in 2011 is nothing but a fiasco, general coordinator of Kefaya Abdel-Halim Qandil told Daily News Egypt on Monday.
The seizures were part of a new campaign underway to expose tunnels used by Palestinians to smuggle goods into Gaza, which proliferated exponentially as Israel's four-year siege intensified during 2008-9.
CAIRO: A trial begins Tuesday at the Alexandria Criminal Court of two policemen charged with offences in connection with the death of Khaled Saied.
CAIRO- President Hosni Mubarak will meet Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday, reported the official Middle East News Agency on Sunday.
Egypt's Minister of Health Hatem el Gabali shut down a clinic in Asyut while its owner is questioned on criminal charges of performing sex change operations
CAIRO- Egyptian intellectuals and fans will Monday evening stage a protest in Cairo in support of Lebanese diva Fayrouz against a recent court injunction. They will gather for a show of solidarity with Fayrouz, 75, at el-Sawi Cultural Centre in Zamalek, according to organisers. A similar protest is planned in Beirut on Monday.
CAIRO: A three-month prison sentence issued against an activist accused of assaulting police officers during a demonstration, has been condemned as a “clear message from the persistent Egyptian government”.
CAIRO: The April 6 Youth Movement has launched a new anti-regime campaign called “Egypt is Our Homeland, Not Theirs,” founding member Asmaa Mahfouz told Daily News Egypt Friday.
CAIRO: The Public Funds General Prosecutor started an investigation into corruption by MPs in exploiting public funds to gain access to the health ministry’s free medical treatment program.
ISMAILIA (Egypt) - Egyptian police shot and killed a Sudanese migrant seeking to cross the border into Israel on Saturday, security sources said.
BERLIN — Vandals damaged several pieces of a memorial to a pregnant Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom last year, the police said Friday.
Rafah, Egypt - Smugglers have not breached an underground steel wall erected by Egypt to curb smuggling through tunnels along the border with Gaza, a security source said Saturday.
CAIRO - Reports about a deterioration in Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's health are categorically false, his information minister said on Tuesday, two days after a US newspaper said Mubarak was dying of cancer.
Egypt's Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Nasr Eddin Allam said that disputes among Egypt and Nile basin countries are "technical" as opposed to “political,” and there is sufficient Nile water for
CAIRO - He wants to have phone sex, she wants to leave her house without a headscarf: a Cairo play seeks to confront Egypt's social taboos by laying bare the sexual frustrations and harassments that beset daily life.
CAIRO-Egypt will temporarily suspend the summertime system on the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan expected to start on August 11, a Cabinet official has said.
Dozens of protesters gathered in front of Egypt's Supreme Judicial Court in downtown Cairo on Sunday to commemorate the death of Khaled Saeed, the young man from Alexandria allegedly beaten to death by police early last month
SINAI - Egyptian Bedouin in Sinai have expressed joy over the police's release of more than 100 detainees in recent weeks and urged the Interior Ministry to ease its armed presence in the central part of the peninsula.
CAIRO - Egypt's tax revenue rose 6 per cent in the fiscal year to June 30 after an unexpected surge in economic activity,
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell discussed here on Sunday efforts to attain peace between Israel and the Palestinians
Egyptian National Association for Change (NAC) in Egypt's province of Alexandria protest marking 40 days since the death of Khaled Saeed, the young Alexandrian allegedly killed by two policemen
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The Light of the Desert-Documentary on St Macarius Monastery, Egypt