CAIRO: Egypt will permanently open the Rafah border crossing to ease the blockade on Gaza, Foreign Minister Nabil Al-Araby said Friday, sparking Israeli concerns over the implications for regional security.

CAIRO: Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Friday that the Egyptian military has tried over 5,000 civilians in military courts since February.

CAIRO - Unknown saboteurs bombed an Egyptian gas pipeline in Sinai Wednesday, sending flames shooting into the sky and forcing authorities to cut supplies to Israel and Jordan, an official told AFP. The attack took place at dawn near the village of Al-Sabil in the El-Arish region, the security official said, adding that the bomb was activated remotely.

RIYADH - Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf denied tension in the relations between his country and the UAE.

CAIRO-The military rulers Tuesday denied media reports that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are putting pressure on Egypt to drop plans on former president Hosni Mubarak's prosecution.

CAIRO --The two sons of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, Gamal and Alaa, were detained for 15 more days

CAIRO – Egypt's Minister of Social Solidarity Gouda Abdel-Khaleq said on Tuesday that Egypt's economy was extreme critical and difficult due to the weak of production over the past three months, according to Al-Youm Al-Sabe.

CAIRO – Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak is still being treated in Sharm el-Sheikh, a medical resource said on Tuesday.

CAIRO - Around 500 diehard supporters of Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak protested on Monday in Cairo city centre against any attempt by the authorities to prosecute him. The demonstration came a day after the state prosecutor ordered Mubarak, who is under detention at a Red Sea resort hospital on suspicion of involvement in the deaths of protesters, transferred to a military hospital.

CAIRO: Senior US Senator John McCain met Egypt's military chief and foreign minister on Saturday, a day after a trip to the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi, Egyptian television reported.

CAIRO: "Transitional periods are dangerous and they make us all skeptical towards anything so we have to be cautious and know how to hinder domestic or foreign groups from staging a coup and controlling over," senior scholar and founder of the Albert Einstein Institution told Daily News Egypt.

CAIRO - Due to the security vacuum resulting from the police withdrawal during the January 25 revolution, thuggery was on the increase in Egypt, according to local newspapers. “About 100,000 thugs are spreading chaos and threatening ordinary people in cities and villages,” revealed the Ministry of Interior.

CAIRO - While many local shops displayed a big collection of salted fish as a feverish appetite for seafood hit the nation ahead of Monday's Sham el-Nisseem (a springtime festival), Cairo consumers were angry with the Government for a mighty 45 per cent increase in the prices of their favourite dish of fessikh and herrings.

CAIRO - Political groups with a secular vision of Egypt are racing to build a coalition to compete against the nation's better established Islamists in parliamentary elections planned for September.

CAIRO - The head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawi met US' senator John McCain on Saturday, the official Middle East News Agency reported.

CAIRO: Egypt's state prosecutor has renewed the detention of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak for another 15 days amid a probe into a deadly crackdown on protesters and corruption, MENA news agency said Friday.

CAIRO: Hundreds of supporters of a radical Muslim Egyptian cleric called on the United States to release him in a rare public demonstration by Islamists who have become more vocal since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

CAIRO – Egypt's Mufti Ali Gomaa asserted on Wednesday that Egyptian unity can't be destabilised because Egyptian ties are strong enough to overcome any difficulties, the official Middle East News Agency reported.

CAIRO - A state-appointed committee concluded on Tuesday that Egyptian police used excessive force against pro-democracy protesters in a damning report on their conduct during the unrest that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

CAIRO: The official fact-finding mission investigating the death toll of Egypt’s revolution released on Tuesday its final report, saying that at least 846 were killed and 6,467 injured during the popular uprising that toppled the Egyptian regime and forced president Hosni Mubarak to step down in February.

CAIRO – Hundreds of Egyptians on Monday protested against the appointment of a Christian governor in the southern city of Qena, as officials scrambled to end the four-day crisis, security officials said.