The Arab League didn't take any decision yet regarding Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour's request for the Arab Ministers to hold a meeting to take a “firm” decision over the anti-Islam film, As Safir newspaper reported on Tuesday.

A high-ranking Arab diplomat said in comments published in the daily that “Mansour held talks with Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi over the matter, however, Mansour should submit an official request before inviting all the Arab ministers to such a meeting.”

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour announced on Sunday that he was exerting efforts to call for an urgent meeting of Arab foreign ministers to denounce an anti-Islam film that has sparked fury across the Islamic world.

The minister's press office said that as chairman of the Arab League Ministerial Council, Mansour contacted Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi urging him to make the necessary contacts to hold the emergency meeting at the League’s headquarters in Cairo to discuss the film that is an “aggression on the belief of more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world.”

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, held talks with Egypt's Mohammed Morsi in Cairo on Sunday, officials said.

Bashir was met at Cairo's airport by Vice President Mahmud Mekki, and arrived with a large delegation of ministers.

Fresh clashes between police and protesters, angry over a film apparently made in the United States that mocks Islam, erupted on Friday outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, an Agence France Presse reporter said.

The protesters, many in their teens and moving around in small clusters, pelted police with stones who responded by firing tear gas.

Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has postponed until next week a Cairo trip for top-level talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hisham Qandil, a spokesman said Thursday.

Haniya had been scheduled to travel to Egypt on Thursday for discussions on security in the wake of an August 5 attack which killed 16 Egyptian border guards in the northern Sinai, which borders the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Security has been stepped up in the area around the US embassy in Cairo, a security official told Agence France Presse, after a film deemed offensive to Islam sparked violence outside the U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya.

"There is an increased security presence in central Cairo, particularly around the American embassy, following the protest yesterday," the official told AFP.

Nile cruises from Egypt's capital Cairo to Luxor resumed over the weekend after being halted 18 years ago because of security concerns.

A ceremony marking the resumption of cruises from the capital was held in Luxor, the mecca of Egyptian tourism, after the arrival of a vessel from Cairo.

Arab ministers are to meet in Saudi Arabia Sunday to mull their next moves on the Syrian conflict after the resignation of U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan and who might succeed him, a top League official said.

The foreign ministers' meeting in the Red Sea city of Jeddah will discuss the "latest developments in Syria and what policy action to take" after Annan's announcement on August 2 that he was stepping down, the pan-Arab bloc's deputy secretary general Ahmed Ben Helli said.

The opposition Syrian National Council said on Tuesday that it is too early to form a government in exile and that a leading dissident's announcement that he had been tasked with forming one was damaging.

"The formation of a government in exile was a hasty decision, and we wish it had not happened," SNC chief Abdel Basset Sayda told Agence France Presse. "It actually weakens the opposition."

French archaeologists have discovered a roughly 5,000-year-old pharaonic solar boat in an expedition in Abu Rawash, west of the Egyptian capital, the antiquities ministry said on Wednesday.

The antiquities minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, said the boat was up to 5,000 years old. "It goes back to the era of Pharaoh Den, one of the First Dynasty kings," he said in a statement.