Lawyers for 11 Egypt's Ministry of Culture officials charged with negligence over the theft of a $55 million Van Gogh painting said on Tuesday their clients were scapegoats and the minister should shoulder responsibility

CAIRO: Opposition MP Mostafa Bakry said that he will present to the Public Funds Prosecution on Sunday 24 documents that prove Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif’s violations in the medical treatment decrees he approved for Minister of Finance Youssef Boutros Ghali.

GIZA (Egypt)-A criminal court Sunday resumes the trial of an editor of an independent Egyptian newspaper accused of inciting the public against a controversial property tax law.

Egypt's opposition Ghad party said Tuesday that it would join Mohamed ElBaradei in boycotting November parliamentary elections

CAIRO- Egypt has secured the wheat quantities it needs to avoid shortages in subsidised bread and would not face a rerun of riots in 2008 over bread shortages, the trade minister said on Saturday.

Egypt's High Administrative Court on Tuesday rejected two appeals against a lower court's decision in a land case involving property developer Talaat Moustafa Group's (TMG) flagship project Madinaty.

Egypt's opposition Ghad party said Tuesday that it would join Mohamed ElBaradei in boycotting November parliamentary elections

Lawyers for 11 Egypt's Ministry of Culture officials charged with negligence over the theft of a $55 million Van Gogh painting said on Tuesday their clients were scapegoats and the minister should shoulder responsibility

SHARM EL SHEIKH (Egypt)-President Hosni Mubarak Tuesday met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ahead of

Egypt's officials said on Sunday that authorities have blocked off water purification stations along the Nile in southern Egypt to prevent some 100 tons of diesel oil that leaked from a barge from polluting drinking water

CAIRO - Zamalek were held at home to a 1-1 draw with a stubborn Gouna side in the Egyptian Premier League on Monday night. The Whites won four points from their first three games, conceding five goals in the process.

EL-ARISH — Sixteen Russians and Moldovans who killed the Egyptian smuggler who was going to help slip them across the border into Israel have been detained in Egypt, a security official said on Sunday.

CAIRO - A senior Egyptian Muslim cleric on Sunday condemned a group of Christians who tore up pages of the Qur'an outside the White House on the anniversary of 9/11 saying their act was "despicable"

CAIRO - Egypt's Al-Ahly beat last year's African Champions League (ACL) runners-up Heartland FC of Nigeria 2-1 in Cairo Sunday night to complete the lineup for the semi-finals with one round left in the group phase.

CAIRO-Fourteen Egyptian legislators involved in alleged free healthcare abuses have had their parliamentary immunity lifted, prior to their being investigated on suspicion of squandering public funds by illegally offering free medical treatment to people who don’t need it.

CAIRO- Egypt's Trade Ministry plans to tender 500 million square metres of land for specialised trade zones next month, part of a plan to boost internal trade and lure more investment, the state news agency reported.

CAIRO: In separate incidents, two political activists were detained and released over the Eid holiday.Walid Shawqy, an activist with the National Association for Change (NAC) founded by Mohamed ElBaradei, was arrested early on Friday morning after Eid prayers and taken to a police station in Dakerness, El-Daqhileya.

CAIRO - An opposition coalition led by potential presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei has agreed to boycott Egypt's parliamentary elections due in November.

An Egyptian court issued today what it described as a lighter ruling against the two lawyers convicted of assault on a Tanta prosecution head

DAKHALIA (Egypt) - Four girls drowned when their pleasure boat capsized in a canal in this Nile Delta province, the official Middle East News Agency reported on Saturday. Eight others were rescued from death during the mishap.

A prominent opposition journalist is to go on trial for allegedly libeling Egypt's foreign minister in a newspaper, a judicial source said on Sunday