Cairo - Rival Palestinian factions opened talks on forming a unity government on Tuesday at the start of 10 days of negotiations in Cairo.
The unity talks between Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank's Fatah, come after 75 donor countries pledged last week som 4.48 billion dollars to help rebuild warn-torn Gaza.
However most Western nations, like Israel, refuse to deal directly with Hamas.
Al-Arish, Egypt - Egyptian authorities on Monday afternoon allowed an aid caravan led by British Member of Parliament George Galloway to cross into the Gaza Strip, a government spokesman said.
Adil Zarub, a spokesman for Egypt's border-crossings authority, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Monday that authorities had struck a compromise with caravan organizers and Libyan donors to allow the aid into the Gaza Strip.
Cairo - Egyptian authorities are searching for survivors from a Cypriot-registered cargo ship that capsized in the Red Sea on Monday, police have told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The bodies of two crew members have been pulled from the water, and 11 of the 26 men on board have been rescued. A search is underway for the remaining 13, police said.
The vessel capsized near Egypt's Red Sea port of Safaga, apparently in adverse weather conditions.
Cairo - A 60-year-old Christian man has been stabbed to death in an Egyptian village following a week of sectarian tension surrounding an illicit love affair, local Christian church sources reported on Friday.
Police in the province of Qalubiya, north of Cairo, arrested a 24- year-old Muslim man, Yasser Ahmed Qassem, on suspicion of stabbing to death the father of a Christian man believed to have been having an affair with Qassem's sister.
Cairo - Archaeologists have discovered two ancient statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, the Egyptian Antiquities Authority announced Thursday.
One of the monolithic statues, carved from quartzite, depicts the pharaoh as a sphinx, archaeologists said. The second statue, carved from black granite, shows Amenhotep III in a seated position. They were unearthed in front his mortuary temple near modern Luxor, the site of the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes.
Cairo - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told Arab foreign ministers on Tuesday that a joint Arab policy is the only way to deal with the "Iranian challenge" as well as the "Arab- Israeli struggle."
Al-Faisal was addressing participants in the Arab League's meeting of 22 foreign ministers in its headquarters in Cairo.
Cairo - Rival Palestinian factions opened talks on forming a unity government on Tuesday at the start of 10 days of negotiations in Cairo.
Al-Arish, Egypt - Egyptian authorities on Monday afternoon allowed an aid caravan led by British Member of Parliament George Galloway to cross into the Gaza Strip, a government spokesman said.
Cairo - Archaeologists have discovered two ancient statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, the Egyptian Antiquities Authority announced Thursday.
Cairo - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told Arab foreign ministers on Tuesday that a joint Arab policy is the only way to deal with the "Iranian challenge" as well as the "Arab- Israeli struggle."
