OUTRAGEOUSLY restrictive visa procedures and grim-faced and arrogant officials haven't undermined the hopes of young Egyptians to break away from the motherland and travel to any of the European countries.

CAIRO -Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Receives Ali Abdullah Saleh Yemen President on Tuesday at the al Etihadiah Palace. The two leaders discusses the bilateral relationship and ways of boosting cooperation in all areas.

The Egyptian Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garranah announced that Egypt’s tourism industry is unlikely to be hurt this year by Europe’s debt crisis

Egypt's Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Mohamed Nasr el-Din Allam will present a report summarizing Egyptian participation in the recent Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) conference in Addis Ababa to the Egyptian Council of Ministers on Wednesda

CAIRO- A criminal court Monday ordered two journalists from an opposition newspaper to pay LE120,000 each in fine for offending judges of the State Council, an influential court advising the Government.

The European Union on Monday expressed concern over the death of a 28-year-old man allegedly killed at the hands of Egyptian police, and called for an impartial inquiry into the matter.

Egypt's Suez Canal Authority denied Sunday barring an Iranian Gaza-bound aid convoy from crossing Suez Canal

SINAI - Bedouin tribesmen attacked a humanitarian convoy bound for Gaza after a shootout with police in the Sinai Peninsula, forcing a temporary closure of a nearby border crossing with Israel, a security official said Sunday.

CAIRO -Egypt's Press Syndicate Sunday urged President Hosni Mubarak to release an opposition journalist who had been sentenced to two years in prison for infiltrating into the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip.

The average yield on Egyptian 91-day Treasury bills dipped to 10.179 percent at an auction on Sunday from 10.222 percent last week CBEY

Thousands of lawyers across Egypt staged a five-hour sit-in yesterday in front of courthouses to express solidarity with their colleagues Ehab Saee Eddin and Mustafa Fattouh, convicted of assaulting a prosecutor in the Delta town of Tanta earlier this month.

Egypt's Shura Council Members re-elected on Thursday Safwat el-Sherif as speaker of the Egyptian Upper House of parliament for the coming three years, according to Egypt's state-run MENA news agency

Egyptian Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin after nearly two decades of selling off state-owned assets, Egypt's controversial privatization program is slowing down and shifting its focus

CAIRO - One policeman was killed and four others injured when their truck, carrying prisoners, were attacked south of Cairo, police sources said on Wednesday.

CAIRO - One policeman was killed and four others injured when their truck, carrying prisoners, were attacked south of Cairo, police sources said on Wednesday.

The Egyptian Ministry of Finance agreed to pay a state-owned sugar company 1 billion Egyptian pounds to cover the cost of sugar subsidies in the year to June 30

CAIRO - Egypt's top comedian Adel Imam, best known for his political satires, have opened fire at Mohamed ElBaradei, a potential presidential contender, and the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's banned-yet-most influential power.

A group of Bedouin on the Sinai Peninsula attacked seven trucks on their way to Israel after Egyptian police searched Bedouin homes earlier in the day for fugitives, a security source said on Tuesday.

CAIRO: Security bodies again used force to break up a protest against police brutality on Sunday, for the second time in a week.

An Egypt's court ruled Tuesday to halt a decision to sell land to developer Talaat Moustafa for its mixed-use Medinaty project on the outskirts of Cairo

Mohamed ElBaradei, the former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog, has criticised opposition powers, which have chosen to participate in Egypt's parliamentary and presidential elections.