CAIRO: Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieddin announced a halt to sell-offs of public sector companies Wednesday, saying that such companies will remain in government hands regardless of whether or not they are making a profit.

Egypt's senior government official said that the government will postpone its plan to restructure subsidies for principle commodities due to the Ministry of Finance's refusal to provide more than LE70 millions required for the new plan

CAIRO: A newly released report by a United States government panel says Egypt

Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass reported on Tuesday that Egypt's Archaeologists discovered a headless granite statue more than 2,000 years old belonging to an unidentified Ptolemaic-era king

Egypt needs to cut water waste and use new technology in agriculture and other fields to support its case for the lion share of the Nile's resources over other African states, a global water expert said.

Scores of political activists, including 30 legislators, staged a protest in central Cairo Monday to call for

Palestinian-Israeli indirect talks, expected to start within a few days, were discussed on Monday at a meeting between President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Egyptian leftist Tagammu Party has raised the number of candidates it plans to field in upcoming elections for Egypt's Shura Council from nine to 12

Minister of Manpower and Immigration Aisha Abdel-Hadi said Saturday political blocs were inciting Egyptian workers to hold strikes and protests, stressing that using the workers' card in politics could "lead to serious repercussions".

Egypt's government statistics agency CAPMAS said Thursday that there were some 2.3 million unemployed people in Egypt--representing 9.4 percent of the national workforce--according to 2009 figures

CAIRO: Christiane Amanpour delved into Egypt’s political future in one of her last episodes days before she rounded off her career at CNN.

An Egyptian MP on Saturday lashed out at Lebanese authorities for allegedly tolerating their mob in a mountainous area to beat to death and lynch an Egyptian national.

Mohamed ElBaradei The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reported Tuesday that the Saudi Arabian government should be

Egypt's efforts to achieve stability in Lebanon and the reconstruction of a country torn by wars with Israel and civil fighting were at the focus of talks on Tuesday between President Hosni Mubarak and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Egypt's Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr the Ministry is planning reforms to the education system which will include a new subject titled "Ethical Education" for pre-college students "Religious curricula need to be reviewed because some of their content incites extremism and violence," said Badr.

A plan to boycott beef by Egypt's fast food restaurants in protest against skyrocketing prices went awry Monday as most

CAIRO: Lawyer Amir Salem filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud Monday,

EGYPT’S opposition Arab Socialist Party yesterday strongly denied claims by a former diplomat that the party would field him as a candidate in Egypt’s 2011 presidential elections. Controversial claims: Abdullah el-Ashaal

An image grab from the Egyptian Nile TV shows President Mubarak giving a TV speech from an unidentified location on April 24, to mark 28 years since Israel withdrawal from Sinai.

CAIRO: Moussa Mostafa Moussa, chairman of Al-Ghad party, applied to become the party’s presidential candidate in the upcoming 2011 elections.

CAIRO: The Freedom Committee of the Lawyers’ Syndicate filed a case to General Prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud against ruling party MPs Nashaat El-Qassas and Ahmed Abou Aqrab, charging them with inciting murder, according to news reports.