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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was re-elected to another six-year term in a landslide victory announced Friday following Wednesday's multi-candidate presidential vote, the first held in Egypt . The Presidential Election Commission ...

An opposition Egyptian presidential candidate said Thursday that he would seek a rerun of elections held Wednesday after reports from monitors that widespread fraud and violations had occurred . Ayman Nour , the best-known of nine challengers...

Egyptians voted in the country's first multi-candidate presidential election Wednesday amid demonstrations and allegations of fraud. Longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak , who is expected to win easily, has touted the election as signaling...

The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court has overturned a lower court decision allowing rights groups to monitor polling stations during the country's first multi-candidate presidential elections on Wednesday. The holding, in which the court ruled that the Presidential...

A spokesman for the Independent Egyptian Committee for Monitoring Elections (IECME) alleged Monday that Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) committed more rule violations in campaigning for the upcoming presidential election than any of the...

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) , Egypt's leading non-governmental rights group, has said that it does not believe the upcoming presidential elections will be fair due to the lack of neutral election monitors. EOHR and other...

The former chairman of Egypt's largest state-owned newspaper allegedly took millions of dollars in secret payments, according to a report by Cairo's El-Osboa newspaper . Ibrahim Nafie became chairman of the Al-Ahram press group...

Egypt Saturday released from prison Mahmoud Ezzat, secretary-general of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood opposition group. Ezzat was arrested in May in a crackdown on political protests, days before the country's...

Noaman Gomaa, a law professor who is one of two top challengers to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt's upcoming September elections , promised Sunday to repeal Egypt's controversial emergency law and release political...

Ashjan Ahmad al-Bukhari, an Egyptian lawyer, has become the first woman to join Egypt's presidential race, which for the first time will allow multiple candidates this year. However, doubts remain about the validity of her candidacy, since...