CAIRO: Bedouins of North Sinai are demanding that the Ministry of Interior release all detainees and reexamine cases filed against some Bedouin leaders in absentia, which they allege have been “fabricated.”

Egypt's district of Alexandria Attorney Yasir Rafai has ordered that two Egyptian policemen from the Sidi Gabr Police Department, be detained for investigation

CAIRO - The Bar Association denied Saturday that two lawyers, sentenced to five years in prison for assaulting a junior judge, had submitted an apology to him, as their appeal hearing resumes Sunday in the Delta city of Tanta amid mounting tension between Egypt’s lawyers and judges.

ISMAILIA - Egypt on Saturday released seven Bedouin detainees in an effort to improve tense relations between the Bedouin and the government, security sources said.

CAIRO--Human Rights Watch has criticised Egyptian police for beating and arresting protesters at several peaceful rallies this month, saying the treatment amounted to "extrajudicial punishment".

Egypt's police shot and killed an Eritrean woman trying to cross Egypt's border into Israel, security sources said, bringing the number of migrants killed along the border so far this year to at least 19

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.