CAIRO(update)- Egypt has stepped up the search for a Van Gogh painting valued at more than 50 million dollars stolen from a Cairo museum, an official said Sunday, as two Italians arrested over the theft were released.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accepted an invitation to attend the start of direct peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Washington next month, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

CAIRO- Egypt is closely following an appeal by two Egyptians who were sentenced to life imprisonment on espionage charges by Qatar earlier this year, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday , adding that the appeal would be heard in October.

Collecting signatures for petitions and distributing leaflets have recently become trademarks of street politics in Egypt among both regime supporters and opposition, said Egypt's paper almasri alyoum

CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Human Rights (ECHR) has called for the resignation of the Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younis, citing the excessive power cuts that have plighted Egypt since the beginning of Ramadan.

Cairo – Ramadan bags - food supply bags for the needy - lost their real humanitarian aim and turned to be just tools used by the political powers specially those of religious trends in order to achieve their electional targets under the name of supporting the poor during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

CAIRO - Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak decided to launch a national subscription campaign to built an advanced cancer hospital in the 6th of October Governorate to replace the diaplating Cairo Tumours Institute.

CAIRO - A Cairo-based lawyer has filed a law suit against the Ministers of Finance, Agriculture and Trade and Industry accusing them of being the main cause of a crucial wheat shortage that created new worries about food sufficiency in the country.

Al-Ahly are preparing to lodge a complaint against JS Kabylie with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) due to what happened during their match against Kabylie in Algeria in the African Champions League (ACL) on Sunday night, the local media reported on Tuesday.

CAIRO--Egypt's main wheat buyer has said it wants to buy 55,000 to 60,000 tonnes of wheat on a free-on-board basis (FOB) from the US, Canada, Germany and Australia. The General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) said grain shipments should be delivered from September 16 to September 30.

CAIRO--A leading Coptic secularist has quit Al Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal party, in protest at the chief of the party's visit to the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned-but-influential opposition power.

CAIRO-- Chief of Al Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal party, has said that his party will field a candidate in Egypt's presidential elections due next year.

Harvard University has topped the Chinese list of university rankings for the eighth consecutive year. No Egyptian or Middle Eastern universities featured on the list

ALGIERS--Egypt's Al Ahly were beaten 1-0 by JS Kabylieof Algeria in their African Champions League Group B clash in Tizi-Ouzou on Sunday night.

CAIRO--Chief of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's banned-yet-influential opposition power, has lashed out at el-Gamaa "The Group", a serial being shown on several TV stations in Egypt and the Arab world.

Collecting signatures for petitions and distributing leaflets have recently become trademarks of street politics in Egypt among both regime supporters and opposition, said Egypt's paper almasri alyoum

The energy committee of Egypt's National Democratic Party has called for the abolition of the subsidies on petroleum products over the next five years

Egyptian Minister of Finance Youssef Boutros Ghali said Friday that 1.5 million pensioners will very soon be cashing their monthly payments electronically.

SINGAPORE - When Jihan El Midany leads the Egyptian delegation into Saturday's opening ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympics, it will be a historic moment for her country.

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has held separate meetings with head of Palestinian Authority (PA) and Jordan's King to push for "progress" in the Israeli-Palestinian talks.

CAIRO: The state is using Bedouins tried in absentia and wanted by the courts to track the assailants behind recent rocket attacks on Jordan and Israel, a source in Sinai told Daily News Egypt.