CAIRO: Two men sit at a Cairo café playing backgammon. Their conversation quickly turns to politics and this November’s Parliamentary vote. One of the men, 63, remarks that Egyptians are “politically conscious, but politically inactive.” His playing partner nods in silent agreement.

MOSCOW/LONDON- Mobile phone operator Vimpelcom is expected to unveil a deal to buy control of Egypt's Orascom Telecom and Italy's Wind on Monday in what could create the world's fifth-largest mobile operator.

CAIRO - Egypt's leading independent newspaper says its mogul publisher has fired the daily's chief editor, known as an outspoken government critic.

Eleven Egyptian policemen were injured in Cairo on Sunday after Egyptian club Al-Ahly defeated Tunisia's Esperance in the first leg of the Orange CAF Champions League semi-finals, played at the 75,000-seater Cairo Stadium.

CAIRO - President Hosni Mubarak Sunday called on governors to help ease the voting process in the upcoming legislative elections, and urged them to take "all necessary steps" to guarantee fair and free elections.

If November parliamentary elections are rigged by the government, the legitimacy of Egypt's next president--who must be sworn in before the national assembly--could be called into question, MPs affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement warned at a symposium on Saturday.

CAIRO-A controversial goal from Mohamed Fadl and an Ahmed Fathi thunderbolt gave Ahly a narrow 2-1 home victory over Esperance in the first leg of the African Champions League semi final later Sunday.

CAIRO - Although the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda, said late Sunday he regretted that

Cairo - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has signalled that President Hosny Mubarak will be a presidential candidate in the 2011 elections during an interview with a pan-Arab newspaper published on Friday.

Washington - A resolution has been drafted in the Senate by Russ Feingold and John McCain to urge President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to "to take all steps necessary to ensure that upcoming elections are free, fair, transparent and credible, including granting independent international and domestic electoral observers unrestricted access", and it has attracted co-sponsors from across the aisles like Senators Al Franken and Jon Kyl. The resolution also calls for the goverment to revoke the Egyptian Emergency Law and to release all detainees arrested under that law.

Cairo - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has signalled that President Hosny Mubarak will be a presidential candidate in the 2011 elections during an interview with a pan-Arab newspaper published on Friday.

Washington - A resolution has been drafted in the Senate by Russ Feingold and John McCain to urge President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to

Egypt's opposition group Muslim Brotherhood (MB) will contest the upcoming Parliamentary Elections, ignoring calls for a boycott, according to a statement by the group

Egypt's court jailed tycoon Hesham Talaat Moustafa Tuesday for 15 years following a retrial for his role in the murder of a Lebanese singer, after an earlier court ruling sentencing him to death was overturned

Egypt's Minister of Interior said Sunday that he expected upcoming parliamentary elections to be "heated", warning that the authorities would clamp down on anyone who stepped outside the law

CAIRO: A group of Christians who converted to Islam and then back to Christianity issued an injunction against both the Minister of Interior and the head of the Civil Status Organization for not implementing a court order that allows them to be identified as Christians on their ID cards.

Egyptian and Chinese industry officials vowed closer bilateral economic ties on Sunday with the signing of an industrial cooperation agreement

Egypt's Minister of Interior said Sunday that he expected upcoming parliamentary elections to be "heated", warning that the authorities would clamp down on anyone who stepped outside the law

Egypt's Minister of Interior Habib el Adli said Sunday that an employee working in a Cairo museum was probably behind the theft of a Van Gogh painting that left Egyptian authorities red-faced

CAIRO - Egypt's government said on Sunday it had approved a legal committee's plan to resolve a land row around the country's biggest listed developer's flagship project, a dispute which has raised concerns across the sector.

Egypt's Minister of Telecommunications Tarek Kamel said Sunday that Egypt is unlikely to offer a second fixed-line telephone licence or a fourth mobile phone licence before 2013