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.

President Hosni Mubarak Saturday pledged to hold fair elections and welcomed any "societal interaction" but warned against what he described as setbacks.

The overwhelming majority of Nile Basin countries in east Africa, including Kenya, decided to sign a new treaty that governs the future usage of the Nile River, which the Egyptian Government has rejected. According to Kenyan media, most Kenyans want Egypt to buy water from Kenya and other downstream states if Cairo seeks to continue benefiting from the Nile.

Egyptian police Saturday said that they have arrested an Israeli who illegally crossed into the Sinai peninsula on a motorbike.

UNITED NATIONS - Israel may come under new pressure next month at a UN meeting on atomic weapons as the US, Britain and France consider backing Egypt's call for a zone in the Middle East free of nuclear arms, envoys said.

An opposition party and a group of human rights groups have said they will ask Egypt's Chief Prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud to order an investigation into calls attributed to three lawmakers to fire at demonstrators.

An opposition party and a group of human rights groups have said they will ask Egypt's Chief Prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud to order an investigation into calls attributed to three lawmakers to fire at demonstrators.

Secretary-General of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) Safwat el-Sherif has said the party’s candidate for the 2011 presidential elections would not be disclosed before the end of this year, setting this year's parliamentary polls as a priority.

Egyptians have started a red meet boycott in response to calls of consumer protection organisations in different governorates, aimed at reducing the price of meat which has risen astronomically.

Egypt's Democratic Front party announced that it will boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections because of the absence of judicial oversight

Al-Ahly midfielder Mohamed Barakat categorically denied raising his middle finger after scoring the Red Devils' third equalizer in Friday's Cairo derby with Zamalek.

The lawyer for the coordinator of ElBaradei's campaign in Kuwait filed a report with the Attorney General yesterday against the Egyptian Interior Minister, the head of Daqahliya security and the judicial officer at the Meet Ghamr police station

The US Department of State denied Saturday there were plans for a meeting between former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei and any US official during the former's current visit to Washington.

Zamalek fans had their hopes of a clear victory against arch-rivals Al-Ahly thrashed in a last minute goal by Mohamed Barakat, which saw the final score tied at 3-3.

Egyptian authorities have denied the reports saying that the Nile Basin countries had taken any decision over without the approval of Cairo and Khartoum.

CAIRO - Egyptian police detained one protester and scuffled with others among a group of about 200 demonstrating

Gamal Mubarak attended Sunday his first meeting with members of the ruling National Democratic Party's executive committee following the Egyptian President Mubarak's successful surgery in Germany last month

Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit has warned of a possible nuclear race between Iran and Israel in the Middle East, demanding, however, that there should be no restrictions on states seeking peaceful usage of nuclear power.

Egypt's Antiquities Council announced on Monday that Egyptian archaeologists unearthed a Roman mummy entombed

Around 15 Egyptian women, flanked by dozens of riot policemen protested a few blocks from the Kuwaiti embassy in Cairo on Sunday over the deportation of around 21 Egyptian supporters of the former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei by Kuwaiti authorities.