French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Wednesday criticised Egypt for imposing death sentences on nearly 700 suspected Islamists.

Egypt's delegate to the United Nations, Ambassador Moataz Ahmadein said on Wednesday 30/1/2014 that Egypt supports Palestinian reconciliation efforts and will do utmost effort to reach a solid Palestinian stance to reach a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

When you picture Egypt's pyramids rising over the country's sands, your vision likely doesn't include water. It should, according to a new study published online Tuesday.

Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi presented his electoral programme in a press conference on Wednesday in which he said he would run under the slogan of "social justice, democracy and national independence" in order to "achieve Egypt's future hopes and rebuild it from the beginning."

An exact replica of Tutankhamun’s tomb was inaugurated Wednesday in Luxor, attended by ambassadors from the EU, Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou and minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim .

A new Egyptian satellite will track the construction of an Ethiopian hydroelectric dam over which officials in Cairo and Addis Ababa have been locked in a standoff over fears that the project will hinder Egypt's access to the Nile's water.

A law approved by Interim President Adly Mansour to ban appeals from a third party against contracts between the State and investors is “unconstitutional,” said Director of The Arab Center for Integrity and Transparency Shehata Mohamed late Tuesday.

A security source said Cairo Airport security applied the protest law to 120 policemen and dismissed them for participating in a strike.

The Ministry of Social Solidarity announced that, according to its findings, 236 NGOs have received 282 million EGP (U.S. $40.3 milion) from foreign organizations in 2013.

Archaeologists have discovered the final resting place of at least 50 royal Egyptians — including princes, princesses and infants — while excavating a trashed tomb at the Valley of the Kings.

Representatives from the April 6 Youth Movement and its offshoot the Democratic Font held a press conference on Tuesday in which they announced they would appeal Monday's court ruling banning the group and ordering the closure of its offices.

Health Minister Adel al-Adawi said in a press statement on Tuesday that he briefed the Cabinet of the Coronavirus situation in Egypt and other Arab countries.

Iraqi writer and novelist Ahmed Saadawi has won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel Frankenstein in Baghdad.

The Court for Urgent Matters has ordered the banning of all activities by the April 6 Youth Movement.

Remains of about 50 mummies, including newborn babies, thought to belong to the 18th Pharaonic dynasty were found in a huge tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said on Monday.

Egypt's presidential election commission on Sunday cleared resigned defense minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and former presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi - the only two candidates - to contest the May presidential elections.

Bahrain is hosting a multinational air force training exercise, in which Egypt will participate for the first time, Bahrain's official news agency reported.

An Egyptian court on Monday banned a pro-democracy movement that helped ignite the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, judicial sources and the website of the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said.

Nine people died and 11 were injured in a road accident on Sunday in Egypt's Fayoum governorate, 130 km southwest of Cairo, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) issued a Sunday statement on its official Facebook page, calling for a boycott of the upcoming presidential elections, saying they “refuse to legitimize such a sham process.”

Egypt's presidential elections commission announced in a press conference on Sunday that the two official candidates who will contest the upcoming presidential elections are former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi.