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Human rights deteriorated across the Arab world in 2009 with torture widely practiced in several countries, namely Egypt, an Arab watchdog said Tuesday. The 230-page report by the independent Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies surveyed 12 countries and said that...

Initiatives to reduce Egypt's greenhouse gas emissions could get a big push if world leaders and environment officials meeting in Copenhagen for climate talks that start Monday agree to maintain or enhance the carbon trading framework. "Companies seem to be...

Egypt has stepped up efforts to clear millions of World War Two mines from prime north coast land in a $250 million demining project to ready the area for tourism, energy and agriculture investments, an official said. Egypt says Allied...

Egyptian authorities have detained 10 senior members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, the group's secretary general told AFP yesterday. The officials were arrested in the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh on Saturday during a meeting, Mahmoud Ezzat said, adding...

The former chief of the U.N.'s nuclear agency critiqued Egypt's lack of democracy after reform-minded Egyptian youths urged him to come home and run for president. In an open letter published in newspapers over the weekend, Mohamed ElBaradei said he...

Thousands of parents have been left clueless as the number of infections and fatalities increases and the Ministry of Health has announced it may close schools nationwide if cases of pneumonia and H1N1 continue to rise. The return of 73,000...

Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass broke the news to AFP on Sunday, saying, "We are preparing for this conference but we don't know the date yet." Greece, which seeks to retrieve the ancient collection of sculptures known as the Elgin...

30:45 GMT Font size : At least 11 people have gone missing in Egypt after two ferries collided on the Nile river around the northern Egyptian territories. The accident took place at the northern town of Rashid late on Friday....

Initial reports had suggested several dozen passengers and crew may have been missing as the exact number of people on board was unclear. Figures provided on Saturday suggested about 11 were still missing. One was a passenger ferry that broke...