Cairo - A Cairo luxury hotel confirmed Saturday that it was back selling alcohol after Egyptian government action against a Saudi investor who had banned its sale.

Cairo  - Egyptian authorities Thursday jailed 14 internet activists in the coastal city of Alexandria for two weeks and accused them of being a threat to national security and calling people to demonstrate.

Around 30 activists, who belong to the "April 6 group", were jailed for protesting by singing nationalistic songs while walking by the beach and causing a traffic jam.

The Egyptian government, which has governed for 25 years under emergency law, does not allow more than five people to gather unregistered.

Cairo - Egypt has shut down the Cairo office of an Iranian television channel, saying it was operating without a mandatory broadcasting licence, security sources said Thursday.

The closing of the office of al-Alam channel, which broadcasts in Arabic from Tehran, came weeks after an Iranian documentary film on the assassin of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was aired in Iran.

An official from al-Alam said the channel had nothing to do with the film, according to the Dubai-based al-Arabiya news broadcaster.

Cairo - Egypt's revenues from the Suez Canal rose to a record high of 5.16 billion US do

Cairo - The Sudanese government has agreed to bring to justice all those who are accused of committing crimes in Darfur and to seek a political resolution to the conflict in the province, the Arab League said Wednesday.

The Cairo-based league adopted in an emergency meeting of its foreign ministers on Saturday a plan to defuse the crisis between Sudan and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The crisis erupted after the ICC chief prosecutor Luis-Moreno Ocampo asked the court to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Darfur war crimes charges.

Cairo - Egyptian police detained Monday 39 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in northern Egypt, the group said on its website.

Three of the detainees are senior members of the movement in the northern city of Kafr al-Sheikh, according to the brotherhood website.

The members were rounded up, the group said, while on vacation in the nearby Mediterranean resort of Baltim.

The Brotherhood, the country's strongest opposition group, has been outlawed since 1954.

In an unprecedented showing, the group won a fifth of the 454 seats in the 2005 legislative election, making it the largest opposition bloc in parliament. Its candidates ran as independents.