CAIRO: A three-month prison sentence issued against an activist accused of assaulting police officers during a demonstration, has been condemned as a “clear message from the persistent Egyptian government”.

CAIRO: The April 6 Youth Movement has launched a new anti-regime campaign called “Egypt is Our Homeland, Not Theirs,” founding member Asmaa Mahfouz told Daily News Egypt Friday.

CAIRO: The Public Funds General Prosecutor started an investigation into corruption by MPs in exploiting public funds to gain access to the health ministry’s free medical treatment program.

ISMAILIA (Egypt) - Egyptian police shot and killed a Sudanese migrant seeking to cross the border into Israel on Saturday, security sources said.

BERLIN — Vandals damaged several pieces of a memorial to a pregnant Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom last year, the police said Friday.

Rafah, Egypt - Smugglers have not breached an underground steel wall erected by Egypt to curb smuggling through tunnels along the border with Gaza, a security source said Saturday.

CAIRO - Reports about a deterioration in Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's health are categorically false, his information minister said on Tuesday, two days after a US newspaper said Mubarak was dying of cancer.

Egypt's Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Nasr Eddin Allam said that disputes among Egypt and Nile basin countries are "technical" as opposed to “political,” and there is sufficient Nile water for

CAIRO - He wants to have phone sex, she wants to leave her house without a headscarf: a Cairo play seeks to confront Egypt's social taboos by laying bare the sexual frustrations and harassments that beset daily life.

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.