Activists from April 6 and a number of political groups have started an open ended sit-in in front of the presidential palace in reaction to Monday's court verdict which upheld the three-year jail sentence and LE50,000 fine of prominent activists Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel, and Ahmed Douma.

Kuwait is in talks to renew some of its contracts to supply oil to Egypt and has been looking for potential investments in the energy sector there, the Gulf state's oil minister said on Monday.

Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi has demanded the release from prison of activists who played key roles in the January 2011 uprising.

Saudi Arabia released on Sunday 35 Egyptian fishermen who were arrested 37 days ago for violating its territorial waters.

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced a police officer to death for the 2012 killing of two men in the southern province of Qena, state news agency MENA reported.

Egyptian trucks detained by militiamen in Libya were freed late on Saturday after the Egyptian government contacted the Libyan authorities over the matter, officials said

A law banning third-party challenges to contracts signed by the Egyptian government will be sent to the cabinet by next week, trade and investment minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour said on Sunday.

Clashes between an Arab clan and a Nubian family resumed Sunday in Egypt's south, killing two people and wounding four, health officials said, leaving the tourist city of Aswan on the edge despite a high-profile government effort to end the bloodshed.

Former President Hosni Mubarak argued in a telephone recording with Al-Masry Al-Youm journalist Mohsen Semaika that former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is the most viable option for president.

During his speech before the Royal Institute for International Relations, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said that Egypt offered to finance the construction of the Ethiopian Renaissance dam and suggested that the dam would be run by a joint committee from the two countries.

Cairo University's board of deans decided on Thursday to allow police to be immediately stationed inside the university's campus, a day after three bombs killed a senior police officer near the university's gates and injured five others.

Gunmen shot and killed a policeman Thursday in the restive Sinai Peninsula, the latest in a series of hiking attacks on police and army personnel, a security source told Al Ahram Arabic news website.

Egypt’s finance ministry has approved the repayment of LE20 billion ($2.8 billion), the remainder of the treasury's debt to two Egyptian insurance funds – one for public employees and the other for those working in the private sector, the ministry announced on Thursday.

Following two days of increased power cuts, Egypt's government on Wednesday announced plans to increase the country's supply of electricity by importing natural gas and diesel in the short term and beginning construction on three new power plants.

Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab has called an emergency meeting to discuss the bombings at Cairo University.

Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Governor Hesham Ramez said that Egypt has not been late in paying for dues of the foreign investors, despite the ongoing circumstances.

The U.S. embassy denied claims that Washington held onto Apache helicopters sent by Egypt for maintenance in an official statement released on April 1.

Major General Adel Labib, administrative and local development minister, said on Wednesday 625,864 new voters have been added to the database since the last update made since the referendum on constitutional amendments until 20 March.

Cairo Criminal Court resumed on Wednesday the retrial of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, his sons Alaa and Gamal, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, and six of his former deputies over killing protesters and financial corruption.

The armed forces spokesperson Ahmed Ali announced on Tuesday the killing of three extremists and the arrest of 52 others during a raid in the cities of Sheikh Zuwaid, Arish, and Rafah, North Sinai.

Clashes broke out Tuesday when Ain Shams University students threw rocks and flames at security forces present on the university’s perimeter.