A Cairo criminal court on Sunday acquitted Mubarak-era minister Ahmed Shafiq, runner-up in last year's presidential elections, of charges that he had embezzled and squandered public funds while serving as civil aviation minister before the 2011 revolution.

Cairo, Egypt - As a former policeman turned politician and a likely ally of Egypt's president, Tamer Meky has harsh words about the security problems in the Arab world's most populous country.

Constitution Party founder and National Salvation Front (NSF) leader Mohamed ElBaradei has said the government and prosecutor-general should step down for the sake of the country.

Egypt's Net International Reserves (NIR) fell by around $84 million in March to $13,424 billion, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Thursday.

A Cairo Security Directorate official said the majority of files burned in a fire at the South Cairo Court on Thursday morning in the Bab al-Khalq neighborhood were related to cases regarding events in Tahrir Square following the revolution and regarding the prosecution of public funds.

Political activist and former parliamentary candidate Gamila Ismail has been appointed organisational secretary of the Constitution Party, the liberal party announced on its official Facebook page Wednesday.

Interpol has refused to issue an international arrest warrant for Ahmed Shafiq, an aide to Egypt's interior minister has said.

KHARTOUM: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi arrives in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday for a visit which Khartoum has termed "historic" but which an analyst said should have come sooner.

State body the General Authority for Investment (GAFI) has warned television channel CBC it will revoke its licence if prominent satirist Bassem Youssef’s weekly show ‘El-Bernameg’ does not comply with the standards of the media free zone, where the channel is based.

Official Justice Ministry statistics issued Tuesday revealed that 113 Egyptians married Syrian women in 2012, and 57 in the first quarter of 2013, totaling 170 marriages.

The internal conflicts facing the liberal Constitution Party escalated on Monday evening when, according to news reports, a group of young members stormed the party’s main headquarters in downtown Cairo and occupied it.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Egypt plans to cut its state wheat imports this year by around 10 percent, with the world's largest grain importer relying instead on its domestic crop and building storage, Egypt's Agriculture minister said on Tuesday.

Commissioned minister and Presidential Spokesman Omar Amer said Wednesday that President Mohamed Morsi "will not meet with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation” visiting Egypt, according to Al-Ahram Arabic-language news website.

The Cairo Court of Cassation on Monday released details of its ruling reversing President Mohamed Morsi's 2012 decision to appoint a new prosecutor-general.

Egypt's April 6 youth movement on Monday slammed the continued detention for an additional 15 days pending investigation of four of its members arrested on Friday while demonstrating outside the interior minister's Cairo residence.

Egypt's central bank said on Monday it intended to reintroduce deposit operations as a way to absorb excess liquidity, starting on Tuesday, in a monetary tightening move that economists said could help fight inflation and support a weakening currency.

WASHINGTON - The United States on Monday accused Egypt of muzzling freedom of speech after prosecutors questioned the most popular Egyptian television satirist over allegations he insulted President Mohamed Morsy and Islam.

The Interior Ministry is unable to end a months-long a sit-in at Cairo’s Tahrir Square, fearing a negative media reaction, Assistant Minister for Cairo Security Ismail Ezz Eddin said.

The price of subsidised cooking gas canisters will increase substantially starting Monday, according to a spokesperson for the supply ministry. Nasser El-Farrash told Ahram Online that the 12.5 kg butane cylinder would now be sold at LE8 (roughly $1.17), rising 60 percent from the previous price of LE5 ($0.73).

Vice president of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Essam El-Erian has said that the Shura Council will begin discussing an amended law on the exercise of political rights and electoral rules which was passed by the council's committees "in principle" last week.

The Supreme Administrative Court upheld an earlier ruling that rejected a petition calling for toppled President Hosni Mubarak to be reinstated.