Cairo - Egypt arrested 38 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood days before elections for four vacant parliament seats, security sources said Wednesday.

Cairo - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit has dismissed concerns in Arab countries that a proposed Euro- Mediterranean union is a European attempt to control them and merge them into an unwanted alliance with Israel, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.

Abul-Gheit told Egypt's semi-official daily al-Ahram that the new union was an extension of the Barcelona process, but would give countries south of the Mediterranean a central role.

The Barcelona process - launched in 1995 - established formal cooperation between 27 members of the European Union and 12 southern Mediterranean countries in the political, economic, cultural, social and migration spheres.

Tehran - Iran on Wednesday distanced itself from a documentary film on the assassination of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, saying the film had nothing to do with the Iranian government, the official news agency IRNA reported.

Iran's state television network aired a documentary film called Assassination of the Pharaoh, which glorified Sadat's assassin Khaled al-Islamboli and portrayed him as a martyr who killed a traitor.

"The producers of the film were from the non-governmental and private sector, and the film was in line with freedom of expression in Iran, but the contents of the film have nothing to do with the official stance of Tehran," an unnamed official from the Foreign Ministry told IRNA.

Cairo  - An Egyptian police officer was killed Monday in a shootout with smugglers on Egypt's border with Israel, security sources said.

Rafah, Egypt - Egypt uncovered three tunnels near the Rafah crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip Saturday and seized weapons and explosives in the strategic Sinai peninsula, according to secu

Cairo, July 3 : Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today met Secretary General of the Arab League (AL) Amr Moussa shortly before his departure for New Delhi after completing