Cairo  -  A hostile campaign in the Egyptian media prompted a group of Egyptian-born Israeli Jews to cancel a trip to Egypt where anti-Israeli sentiment is on the rise, diplomats and academics said

Cairo - Egypt's parliament approved Monday a government request for a two-year extens

Gaza  - Egyptian efforts to promote a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are still going on and have not failed, a Hamas official said Saturday.

Cairo - Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosny denied Thursday accusations made by the S

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Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cast doubts Monday on recent comments by Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert that progress has been made in the Middle East peace process.

Olmert told US President George W Bush in Jerusalem last week that peace negotiations with Abbas were making "serious progress" and negotiations "hopefully will come to fruition within this year, 2008."

However, Abbas said in an interview published Monday in the Saudi Al-Watan newspaper that "there is no agreement, rather what has taken place is only an exchange of views."