Egypt denies inviting Nasrallah

Egypt on Wednesday vehemently denied a report that it had invited Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah to the country. "No such invitation was sent. The report appears to be an experimental balloon," the unnamed official told the London-based A-Sharq Alawsat newspaper. The official's remarks follow a report in the Lebanese Akhbar newspaper that Nasrallah was invited to Egypt as part of Cairo's efforts to maintain calm between Lebanon's rival factions and promote better relations between Beirut and Damascus.