CAIRO- Three major Egyptian oppostion have rebuffed calls for boycotting the forthcoming legislative and presidential elections.

MANSURA- An Egyptian man jumped off a police station in the Nile Delta town of Bani Ebeid to escape alleged torture.Mohamed Salah Mahmoud, a 18-year-old driver, is now lying in a hospital under security after surving the jump, said his family.

PARIS- President Hosni Mubarak Monday meets his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on peacemaking in the Middle East, a senior Egyptian official has said.

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

CAIRO- The trial of an Egyptian journalist, accused of inciting the public against a new tax law, started in Giza, south of Cairo, on Sunday amid tight security measures.

CAIRO- The death toll of a pleasure boat, which sank in the Nile on Thursday, rose to seven after more bodies were recovered, police said on Sunday. The mishap, blamed on overloading, occurred near Cairo during an outing organised by a local church.

CAIRO--Hours before a court hears an appeal filed by two jailed colleagues, the nation's lawyers have agreed not to stage protests outside the court building so as to provide "a quiet atmosphere", The Egyptian Gazette Online has learnt.

Egyptian opposition groups plan a protest outside the office of the Prosecutor General in Central Cairo Sunday

Cairo- Secretary General of the National Council for Women (NCW) Farkhunda Hassan left here Friday leading a high-ranking delegation to the US to get firsthand information about America's success story in countering violence against women.

ASWAN- Traffic on the River Nile and on Cairo-Aswan Desert Road has been crippled due to fierce sand storms, which hit several parts in Upper Egypt, mainly Aswan, according to meterologists.

CAIRO - Egypt's Finance Ministry aims to double tax receipts in five years to an annual 408.3 billion Egyptian

CAIRO- Forty companies are vying to build the final phase of Egypt's new $550 million museum which will showcase the largest collection of pharaonic treasures in the world, the project's supervisor said later Monday.

An Egypt's source said that a visit to Egypt by Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, which was scheduled for Tuesday, has been pushed ahead one day

CAIRO-Egypt plans to build a $1 billion tunnel under the Suez Canal at Port Said and will begin seeking finance as soon as the designs are completed, Al-Akhbar newspaper, on Monday, quoted the Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin as saying.

A Chairman of Egypt's Wafd Party Sayyed el-Badawi said Monday that the establishment of a commission to formulate the Egyptian opposition's demands and send them to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

CAIRO - Workers from a textile factory based in the Delta city of Tanta, who have recently ended a five-week strike outside the Parliament, Monday protested outside the Egyptian Trade Union Federation in downtown Cairo over perceived failure of the Government to fulfil its pledges.