CAIRO: The Supreme Electoral Commission overseeing the upcoming Shoura Council elections began the vetting process Monday for the applications of potential candidates.

Egyptian Government called the parliament Tuesday for an extension of Egypt's controversial emergency law for two years, but restricting it during this period to terrorism and drugs trafficking crimes and with some new limitations on police powers

Orascom Telecom's executive chairman said the firm's Djezzy unit head met with the Algerian finance minister on Monday, but declined to comment further on a wider asset sale Algeria has jeopardised.

Four Egyptians and a Saudi national are to stand trial in Egypt on June 14 on charges of money laundering and funding the banned Muslim Brotherhood, a judicial source told AFP on Sunday.

The 6 April Youth movement issued a statement Friday in response to the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's Labor Day speech, saying the president has repeated the same slogans for the past 30 years

Scores of political activists on Saturday staged a protest in the centre of the Egyptian capital Cairo against the detention and the trial of a pro-reform demonstrator, and called for his release.

The social fabric of the Egyptian society can hardly be described today as coherent because of the noticeable rifts, which are widening between different societal strata.

Two peacekeepers from Egypt, working for the joint United Nations-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID), were killed in an ambush yesterday by gunmen, reports say.

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