CAIRO - Egypt's information minister on Monday ordered the reissuing of new licenses for private TV satellite uplinks amid criticism that the state aims to tighten government control over the media ahead of parliamentary elections.

CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak’s decision to postpone the annual conference of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) was unpredictable, political analyst and senior researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies Nabil Abdel-Fatah told Daily News Egypt on Sunday.

Egypt's sources said that the decision to set the private-sector minimum wage at LE400 a month will be reviewed

Participants of a conference organized by the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession on Sunday demanded regulatory legislation pertaining to inspections of prisons and state security camps by general prosecution members

CAIRO - Scores of Muslim fundmentalists protested Friday afternoon outside a famous mosque in Cairo against a recent decision religious satellite TV channels.

Former UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei blasted Egypt's "authoritarian" government and insisted political change was coming, in an interview on Saturday with the Austrian daily Kurier

CAIRO - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif recently has urged action to upgrade the Arabic electronic content to maintain Egypt's lead in the communications domain.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition group sources said that the group's elections program will address social inequality and wealth concentration

JERUSALEM: Israel will begin building a huge barrier along its southern border with Egypt "within weeks" in a bid to curb the entry of illegal immigrants, the prime minister's office said on Wednesday.

Egypt came in at 98th place with 3.7 out of 10 points on this year's Corruption Perception Index, issued by rights watchdog Transparency International (TI), out of 178 countries on the list

Egypt came in at 98th place with 3.7 out of 10 points on this year's Corruption Perception Index, issued by rights watchdog Transparency International (TI), out of 178 countries on the list

Egypt's largest liberal opposition party Wafd threatened Tuesday to boycott a parliamentary election next month after state television refused to air its political advertisements

CAIRO — The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition movement, accused the regime of monopolising power through vote rigging and vowed to rally Egyptians to prevent fraud in upcoming parliamentary elections.

CAIRO - Egypt has seen so many deadly road, rail, sea and other accidents over the last half decade. Over 1,000 died when a ferry caught fire in 2006, and a series of train crashes have killed dozens more. There was a fire at the upper house of parliament two years ago. And Egyptians sweated through widespread power cuts this summer.

CAIRO - Egyptian security forces on Tuesday detained 57 campaign workers from the opposition Muslim Brotherhood while hanging election posters in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria ahead of next month's parliamentary vote.

Farmers from Egypt's province of Bahr Gergeba, Fayoum, protest in front of Egypt's Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources, complaining of a three-year water shortage that has spoiled harvests

CAIRO - An Egyptian administrative court has ruled the state must implement a minimum monthly wage of 1,200 Egyptian pounds ($208) for all workers, enforcing a decision by another court in March, Judge Kamal El Lamei said Tuesday.

CAIRO - Egypt's Health Ministry announced Sunday the cases infected with pinkeye virus reached 1,368 in three governorates, confirming that the recovery from the virus is 100 per cent as it causes no harm to the eyesight.

CAIRO - It's a problem nearly every woman in the Egyptian capital has experienced - leering, whistles, groping or other sexual harassment on Cairo's thoroughfares and backalleys. Soon they'll be able to instantly speak out on the Internet when it happens.

PORT SAID (Egypt) - Egypt reached the African Youth Championship after crushing Senegal 3-0 at home on Sunday in an ill-tempered clash that witnessed three red cards in the dying minutes.

CAIRO - Egypt’s Highest Administrative Court Saturday upheld a previous ruling to ban police officers from patrolling Cairo University, Egypt’s largest public university.