PERHAPS seeking to induce a public averse to political participation to be more politically engaged, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday called on the electorate in his country to cast their votes in the upcoming Shura Council elections to bring about what he called “democracy and the aspirations of the people of Egypt”

Plunging into the waters off Egypt's resort of Alexandria, divers explored the submerged ruins of a palace and temple complex from which Cleopatra ruled, swimming over heaps of limestone blocks hammered into the sea by earthquakes and tsunamis more than 1,600 years ago, according to The Associated Press

An Egyptian court has convicted the Cairo deputy governor in a 2008 rock slide that killed 119 people on the outskirts of the city and sentenced him to five years in prison

CAIRO: Amonisto workers did not try to storm the People’s Assembly on Sunday, rights activist Khaled Ali said, suggesting that the decision to remove the protests near parliament had already been taken by security forces earlier the same day.

The Egyptian Abdeen Misdemeanors Court yesterday sentenced Ahmed Saad Douma, an activist from the 6 April movement, to six months in jail for assaulting a police officer during protests on 3 May

Egypt’s league titleholders Al-Ahly Wednesday night meet runners-up Zamalek in Cairo in the last 16 of the Egyptian Cup with one of the country’s two top teams to be knocked out of the prestigious tournament. Al-Ahly's players celebrating after beating Nabarouh in the Egyptian Cup in Mansoura on Saturday.

Police have arrested an official at the Egyptian mint on charges she stole 2.8 million Egyptian pounds ($495,700), the government said on Tuesday

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said on Monday that the Nile Basin countries are agreed that Egypt's water quota should remain intact

Political activist and founder of the protest Kefaya (Enough) movement George Ishaq Monday lashed out at some members from his group who accuse him of having recently become an American protégé.

Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif is scheduled to meet today with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga for talks about cooperation among Nile Basin countries

Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of them containing a painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside

Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will hold talks on Monday with visiting Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga over Nile Basin Initiative after the signing of a new water-sharing treaty.

An Egyptian senior government official said that Egypt's Ministry of Trade and Industry learned of the increased taxes on iron, cement and cigarettes from newspaper articles

Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency IAEA, tells FRANCE 24 in an exclusive interview

The trial of two human rights advocates and a blogger charged with defaming a judge adjourned to June 26 at the defendants'

The foreign ministers of Egypt, France and Spain Ahmed Abul-Gheit, Bernard Kouchner and Miguel Moratinos respectively will hold a tripartite meeting in Cairo on Sunday, said French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog who came back to Egypt to push for wider reforms, slammed Saturday the detention of eight activists for collecting signatures to force the Government to amend the constitution.

ROME--During the third Egyptian-Italian Strategic Partnership to be held in Rome on Wednesday, President Hosni Mubarak will discuss with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi investment, trade and funding small and medium enterprises as well as training Egyptian workforce.

CAIRO: A court in Egypt is to rule next month on whether Egyptian men married to Israeli women are to be stripped of their citizenship, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday.

The euro fell to a two-year low in the Egyptian market this week in the wake of the Greek debt woes, which have paid their toll on the euro's foreign exchange versus many currencies worldwide.

Hundreds of Egypt's independent MP Mostafa Bakri supporters from the Egyptian regions of Helwan and Tebbeen protested again yesterday against a recent government decision to abolish their geographic constituency