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.

Egypt's antiquities authority and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the museum will return 19 artefacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamen

CAIRO: Egyptian Copts and Muslims held a candlelight vigil Monday night in memory of the victims of the horrific Oct. 31 attack on a Catholic church in Baghdad that killed 58 people.

CAIRO: Five supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) were attacked by security forces in Alexandria late Monday while hanging posters of MB-affiliated independent candidate Mahmoud Attia, the group said.

CAIRO: Information Center for Local Development (ICLD) workers are entitled to receive the recently set LE 400 minimum monthly wage, according to the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR).

CAIRO: Just a few hours before the nomination application deadline on Sunday

CAIRO: A number of labor activists said they would resort to “political blackmail” using the parliamentary and presidential elections as pressure to push for a higher minimum wages.

CAIRO: People's Assembly Speaker Ahmed Fathi Sorour reiterated Egypt’s rejection of foreign monitoring of the upcoming parliamentary elections, saying that it is a domestic issue and that foreign intervention would be considered an insult to national sovereignty.

CAIRO: Egypt's intelligence chief and foreign minister are to travel to Washington on Tuesday for talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the floundering Middle East peace process, the state-owned daily Al-Ahram reported.

CAIRO: Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members held a demonstration on Thursday at Al-Mansheya square in Alexandria while dozens protested in front of the city’s security directorate, spurred by the prevention of MB-affiliated candidates from submitting their registration papers for the parliamentary elections.

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak condemned Saturday threats by the Al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq against Coptic Christians in Egypt and promised to protect them, according to official MENA news agency

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court issued a ruling requiring that Egypt's Minister of Information Anas al-Fiqqi should allocate broadcasting time on state-run Egyptian Television to all political parties in order to allow them to present their election platforms

A coordinator for the popular coalition for the support of Gamal Mubarak in the 2011 presidential election Magdi al-Kurdi said that Gamal Mubarak would win the presidential election even if he ran against Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, according to Egypt's paper almasri alyoum

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released a report on Thursday said that Egypt ranks as a medium development country, coming 101 out of 169 countries on the human development index

CAIRO: Regulations for public media coverage guidelines and the electoral process of the People’s Assembly elections taking place in November were announced by the Ministry of Information and the Supreme Electoral Commission, respectively.

Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, an Egyptian blogger serving a four-year prison term for inciting unrest and antipathy to Islam, has not been released despite serving out the end of his sentence, journalists and activists close to Suleiman say

Former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Mohamed ElBaradei said Monday that he would not run in Egypt's presidential elections slated for next year, according to the German press agency (DPA)

CAIRO: Regulations for public media coverage guidelines and the electoral process of the People’s Assembly elections taking place in November were announced by the Ministry of Information and the Supreme Electoral Commission, respectively.

CAIRO: An Egyptian activist has been awarded the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary activism by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in recognition of his work defending civil rights and personal freedoms in Egypt.