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June 28, 2010 (Reuters) - Iran's Red Crescent Society has canceled a plan to send a shipload of aid to the Gaza Strip, saying it was denied access to pass through the Suez Canal, a claim rejected by an Egyptian official.

RAFAH, June 4th (Xinhua) -- Egypt has on Friday kept Rafah crossing on its borders with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip open for the third consecutive day, and thousands of Gaza Strip residents had crossed to Egypt.

June 1, 2010 (Reuters) - Egypt will open its border with the Gaza Strip to let Palestinians cross, officials said on Tuesday, following a storm of international criticism of Israel's bloody enforcement at sea of its blockade on the enclave.

May 11th (Al Jazeera) - The Egyptian parliament has voted to extend the state of emergency, which restricts constitutional protections and grants police extensive powers, for a further two years.

November 4, 2009 (Press TV) - In an attempt to defuse Arab anger over her pro-Israeli remarks, the US secretary of state said Washington does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlement activities on Palestinian territories.

CAIRO September 9, 2009 (RIA Novosti) - The current dispute between Syria and Iraq will be on the agenda of Wednesday's meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

May 6, 2009 (Press TV) - The UN nuclear watchdog is investigating the discovery of traces of highly enriched uranium (HEU) -- at or near weapons grade level -- in Egypt, reports say.

April 28,2009 (Press TV) - Iran rejects a report that an Iranian navy vessel has been targeted by "Israeli or American missiles" and was ultimately sunk in the Red Sea.

Hezbollah, the militant group dubbed a terrorist organization by the U.S., Israel and Europe, may be poised to win the upcoming Lebanese parliamentary elections.

April 21, 2009 (AFP) - The foreign ministry summoned an Iranian official on Tuesday after Iran criticised Egypt's claim that it had arrested members of Lebanon's Hezbollah for allegedly planning attacks in the country.