Amnesty International has accused Egypt's rulers of brutality sometimes exceeding that of former president Hosni Mubarak, saying the hopes of protesters had been "crushed". The human rights group said Egypt's Supreme Council of Armed Forces (Scaf) which assumed control after an 18-day uprising ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi was unanimously elected Arab League chief on Sunday to succeed Amr Mussa, embarking on a challenging task as political upheaval sweeps the region. The surprise announcement of his candidacy came after Egypt withdrew diplomat Mustafa al-Fikki ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei plans to run in the Egyptian presidential election scheduled for the end of this year. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses the arrest of former President Hosni Mubarak and the growing mistrust of Egypts military SPIEGEL: Mr ElBaradei, more than nine ...

The Egyptian Army has stopped the gas flow at a pipeline in Egypt's North Sinai following an explosion, the governor of the province told state television on Saturday. The explosion at the pipeline, which supplies gas to Israel, occurred on Saturday morning near the Egyptian town of El Arish, close ...

ASHRAF KHALIL After years of observing the increasingly toxic relationship between the Egyptian people and the countrys police forces, I had no idea what to expect late Friday night as I approached Cairos Tahrir Square on foot knowing that President Hosni Mubarak had deployed army tanks to the city ...

won a lucrative contract to help save the oldest pyramid in Egypt. The 3,000-year-old Pyramid of Djoser almost collapsed in 1992 after being hit by an earthquake. But in a bid to preserve the ancient structure, a firm from South Wales has been called in to keep the pyramid standing. A team from ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypts military has resisted US pressure to modify its strategy to counter new regional threats, stressing the countrys national security was a red line the United States could not cross, leaked US diplomatic cables showed. Egypt has received over $36 billion in US military aid ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypts El Sewedy Cables said on Tuesday it was negotiating for a 50-megwatt power generation project in Pakistan, in a bid to open a new market in Asia. The firm did not provide further details on the project but said Pakistani banks were ready to finance up to 70pc of the ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypts Orascom Telecom said on Sunday its Pakistan unit had repurchased up to $140 million in senior notes at a 27 percent discount to face value. The unit, Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited (Mobilink), will spend around $100.6 million to buy back almost $138 million of ...

US President George W. Bush flies to Egypt on Saturday where he will meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and address the World Economic Forum on the Middle East. Arriving in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh via oil powerhouse Saudi Arabia at the end of a regional tour, Bush will also meet ...