CAIRO- Three major Egyptian oppostion have rebuffed calls for boycotting the forthcoming legislative and presidential elections.

MANSURA- An Egyptian man jumped off a police station in the Nile Delta town of Bani Ebeid to escape alleged torture.Mohamed Salah Mahmoud, a 18-year-old driver, is now lying in a hospital under security after surving the jump, said his family.

PARIS- President Hosni Mubarak Monday meets his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on peacemaking in the Middle East, a senior Egyptian official has said.

Egyptian opposition groups plan a protest outside the office of the Prosecutor General in Central Cairo Sunday

Cairo- Secretary General of the National Council for Women (NCW) Farkhunda Hassan left here Friday leading a high-ranking delegation to the US to get firsthand information about America's success story in countering violence against women.

ASWAN- Traffic on the River Nile and on Cairo-Aswan Desert Road has been crippled due to fierce sand storms, which hit several parts in Upper Egypt, mainly Aswan, according to meterologists.

CAIRO - Egypt's Finance Ministry aims to double tax receipts in five years to an annual 408.3 billion Egyptian

CAIRO- Forty companies are vying to build the final phase of Egypt's new $550 million museum which will showcase the largest collection of pharaonic treasures in the world, the project's supervisor said later Monday.

An Egypt's source said that a visit to Egypt by Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, which was scheduled for Tuesday, has been pushed ahead one day

CAIRO-Egypt plans to build a $1 billion tunnel under the Suez Canal at Port Said and will begin seeking finance as soon as the designs are completed, Al-Akhbar newspaper, on Monday, quoted the Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin as saying.

A Chairman of Egypt's Wafd Party Sayyed el-Badawi said Monday that the establishment of a commission to formulate the Egyptian opposition's demands and send them to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

CAIRO - Workers from a textile factory based in the Delta city of Tanta, who have recently ended a five-week strike outside the Parliament, Monday protested outside the Egyptian Trade Union Federation in downtown Cairo over perceived failure of the Government to fulfil its pledges.

LONDON - A British coroner has begun an inquest into the mysterious death of a wealthy Egyptian businessman

Egypt's Minister of Higher Education Hani Helal said that he will not permit former International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohamed ElBaradei, who is also a potential presidential candidate, to practice politics inside universities

Egyptian Ministry of Interior Affairs decided to release another 20 Bedouin detainees on Monday, as promised Egypt's Interior Minister Habib el-Adli in his meeting with Sinai Bedouin tribal leaders last week

CAIRO-- An Egyptian opposition leader has played down the withdrawal of Al Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal party, from an opposition coalition.

Egypt's inflation was little changed in June after easing for four months in a row, supporting the Egyptian Central Bank's decision to hold interest rates at a four-year low, according to Bloomberg

A president of Egypt's Trade Union Federation (TUF) Hussein Megawer said that Egypt's government is eager to protect the interests of approximately 8 million irregular workers in the areas of agriculture, fishing, construction, trade and transportation

CAIRO--Their erstwhile unanimity divided, lawyers in the Delta Governorate of Menoufiya Saturday unilaterally ended a one-month strike they were staging in solidarity with two colleagues jailed for five years, and slammed the Bar Association's efforts to resolve their crisis with the nation's prosecutors and judges as a failure.

TALKHA (Egypt)- Scores of Egyptian anti-riot policemen were Saturday depolyed in the Nile Delta town of Talkha as members of a pro-reform group started their meeting. Clashes erupted between the police and several people who wanted to attend the meeting arranged by the National Coalition for Change set up by Mohamed ElBaradei, the former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog.

CAIRO--Egypt's annual urban inflation rate edged up to 10.7 per cent in June, a moderate rise that analysts do not expect will prompt the bank to raise interest rates this month.