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.

Egypt  - Swordfights and scuffles erupted in cities in northern Egypt after motorists queuing up to buy subsidized, scarce gasoline lost their tempers, a local newspaper reported Monday.

In several such incidents in the coastal city of Alexandria, scuffles broke out in petrol stations among motorists fighting to be served first, culminating in a swordfight in case, the independent daily al-Masri al-Youm said.

Long queues outside petrol stations in Egypt's second largest city reached up to one kilometre in the city centre.

Other cities in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, saw similar quarrels, according to the newspaper.

Cairo, July 20 : A group of archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of a 4,500-year-old ancient Egyptian wooden boat in a bid to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists have announced.

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Cairo  - Arab League Secretary-General Amr Mussa warned Wednesday that a decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to charge Sudan's president with genocide would have da