The London-based Amnesty International called on Egypt's authorities to refrain from harassing election candidates as hundreds of opposition members have been arrested

CAIRO - President Hosni Mubarak Saturday held talks in Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah during a brief visit.Their talks focussed on the regional developments, said State-owned media without elaborating.

A headless statue of a Greek king has been discovered in the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple, adding to evidence that the structure could be the final resting place of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, say excavation leaders

CAIRO (Update) - An Egyptian Foreign Ministry official has rejected as an 'interference' in local politics a meeting between senior US officials and a group of Americans entitled “Egypt Workgroup” to discuss Egyptian affairs.

A rights activist said Wednesday that Egypt freed a blogger who served four years in jail after being convicted of insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammed and Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak

CAIRO: Egypt's decision to raise the minimum wage for the first time since 1984 has been sharply opposed by the very activists who demanded it, because at LE 400 ($69) a month, it skirts close to the poverty line.

CAIRO: Egypt's decision to raise the minimum wage for the first time since 1984 has been sharply opposed by the very activists who demanded it, because at LE 400 ($69) a month, it skirts close to the poverty line.

CAIRO - The countdown to the blocking of Facebook has allegedly begun. Growing rumours claim that this influential online platform could be the Government's new battlefront against its opponents ahead of the Parliament elections this month.

CAIRO - Male self-appointed preachers have invaded the Cairo Underground Metro, where they give sermons emphasising a myriad of virtues that range from prayers to the advantage of wearing the veil.

CAIRO - Anybody who walks about Cairo in particular will notice how anarchy dominates the streets, it's exactly like watching a soap opera or a movie on satellite or TV.

ALEXANDRIA: The family of a 20-year-old man found dead in the Mahmoudia Canal

CAIRO — Egyptian police have rounded up about 600 Muslim Brotherhood members ahead of this month's parliamentary election and some 250 are still detained, a senior Brotherhood official said on Tuesday.

CAIRO (UPDATED)- President Hosni Mubarak Tuesday led the funeral of MP Kamal el-Shazli, Egypt's long-serving lawmaker, who had died earlier in the day, according to the official Middle East News Agency. Mubarak joined a funeral prayer in a mosque in Nasr City in Cairo and offered condolences to el-Shazli's two sons, added the agency.

CAIRO - The Higher Election Commission (HEC), an independent body tasked with organising the upcoming

A chief executive officer and managing director of Telecom Egypt Tarek Tantawy said that the company is seeking to increase its investment in the mobile-phone market

CAIRO: Sixty-three civil society organizations have applied to the National Council for Human Rights Council (NCHR) for authorization to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections on Nov. 28, NHRC vice chairman said on Wednesday.

CAIRO — Egypt's Coptic church scrapped a celebration on Saturday to mark Pope Shenuda III ordination in solidarity with the Christians of Iraq after the Baghdad church bloodbath, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported Saturday.

CAIRO - Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali Gomma Saturday issued a fatwa (a religious edict) ordering Egyptian Muslims, who celebrate Eid el-Adha on Tuesday by slaughtering a ram, goat, or sheep, to follow hygienic procedures and refrain from leaving their waste or blood in the street.

CAIRO: On the outskirts of Cairo, across the street from gated compounds where residents play golf on an 18-hole course, plush apartments sit vacant without buyers. As their luxury fittings gather sand blown in from the surrounding desert, many Egyptians say they cannot afford a home in the city of 20 million, where buildings are huddled so close together the only view is often of their neighbor's kitchen.

Two human rights groups said on Wednesday that an Egypt's blogger who served his prison term is still under detention and being beaten by Egyptian security officers

CAIRO: Sixty-three civil society organizations have applied to the National Council for Human Rights Council (NCHR) for authorization to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections on Nov. 28, NHRC vice chairman said on Wednesday.