Activists have said they will protest on Sunday outside the Ministry of the Interior in Cairo against the death of a young man in the coastal city of Alexandria allegedly during torture by police, according to organisers.

Egypt's annual urban inflation rate, the most closely watched price indicator, fell to 10.5 percent in May, its lowest level since August and giving the Central Bank of Egypt more latitude to keep key interest rates steady

The Egyptian Higher Election Commission announced that Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) won 80 out of 88 seats contested in the Shura Council mid-term elections

THE trial of two lawyers, accused of assailing a prosecutor, started in the Egyptian Delta town of Tantaon Wednesday amid mounting anger from their colleagues. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Bar Association Hamdi Khalifa suggested the creation of a body to tackle disputes between lawyers and judges.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) said on Monday that Egypt had failed to implement its earlier recommendations in terms of labor-related legislation

Egypt's Minister of Agriculture Amin Abaza, in a speech before the Food Security Conference, said that Egypt imports 40 percent of its total foodstuffs and 60 percent of its wheat

Arab League chief Amr Mussa will make a groundbreaking "solidarity" visit to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip next week, top aide Hisham Yussef told AFP on Monday. The head of the 22-member pan-Arab organisation "will visit the Gaza Strip next week -- the first trip of its kind by an Arab League secretary general," Yussef said.

Representatives from Egypt's National Association for Change (NAC), founded by potential presidential contender Mohamed ElBaradei, will today visit the Wafd Party headquarters to congratulate el-Sayyed el-Badawy on his election as the party's president on 28 May

Packed into a small hall inside Cairo University’s Faculty of Arabic Language and Literature and guarded by security

SHARM EL-SHEIKH - US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Egypt on Sunday for a meeting with President

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) reduced the share of foreign-currency reserves it held in euros late last year, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday.

Egypt's Ambassador to the United States Sameh Shoukry said that the purpose of establishing the Mubarak Trust Fund, a special endowment to be set up by the US government for Egypt, is to utilize American aid more effectively within a framework that ensures Egypt will continue to receive such aid in the future

Microsoft and Google both say Egypt has no legislation obliging social networks and internet search engines to delete users' data within a certain time period, as is the standard in EU states

CAIRO: Egyptians demonstrated at Al-Azhar mosque after Friday prayers to condemn a deadly raid by Israeli commandos on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

Egypt's Opposition Muslim Brotherhood group reported Wednesday that it would back a drive by former UN atomic watchdog head Mohammed ElBaradei to reform Egyptian politics after the group secured no seats in a vote to parliament's upper house, according to Reuters

The banned Muslim Brotherhood announced Saturday it would fully support former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei in his campaign to amend the Egyptian Constitution as he declared in return the group was the largest legal political faction in Egypt.

Egypt's sanitaryware and ceramics maker Lecico said that an export warehouse belonging to it has been destroyed by a fire, according to a statement issued on the Egyptian Stock Exchange on Thursday The firm added that "No one was seriously injured in the fire in Alexandria but stocks were damaged and exports would be disrupted"

Egypt's main government wheat buyer said on Tuesday he had changed the terms of wheat tenders for shipments starting July 1.

The Egyptian largest opposition group Muslim Brotherhood Sunday protested over "corruption and irregularities" ahead of Tuesday's elections for parliament's upper house, according to AFP

CAIRO: The Shoura Council elections took place Tuesday amidst reports of violations by

The Arab world has united to condemn the Israeli forces' attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian supplies to the besieged