Egypt's central bank is expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Thursday as it balances its efforts to keep inflation in check with the need to stimulate the economy after more than three years of stagnation, a Reuters poll showed.

Mohamed Fayek, the head of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), has called for delaying the passing of a contentious law regulating NGOs in Egypt until after a new parliament is elected.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has said there are no secret terms in the Gaza ceasefire initiative proposed by Egypt earlier this week, insisting that it was receiving international and Arab support.

A Cairo criminal court on Wednesday sentenced nine men to lengthy jail terms for sexually assaulting women near Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab held a Wednesday meeting with a number of ministers to find “urgent and fast solutions” to the continuous water shortage crisis in New Cairo city, reported Youm7.

Egypt has been invited by the United States to attend next month’s African leaders summit in Washington, a White House spokesman said on Monday, reversing a decision not to let Egypt participate.

Egypt's foreign affairs ministry spokesperson Ambassador Badr Abdel Atti denied that US secretary of State John Kerry was going to visit Cairo on Tuesday, Reuters' Aswat Masriya reported.

Egypt's interior ministry will investigate an alleged torture case in a Cairo police station, a security source told Reuter's Aswat Masriya.

Thousands attended a funeral in North Sinai's Al-Arish for eight persons who were killed late Monday in an explosive attack, reported Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.

Jerusalem/Gaza, 15 July: Israel today accepted an Egypt-proposed ceasefire plan to halt its deadly offensive on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip but the Palestinian militant groups rejected it calling it a “surrender”, even as the death toll in the nine-day long conflict rose to 192.

Eight people have been killed in a series of rocket attacks targeting security forces in northeast Egypt near the border with Israel.

The Cairo Urgent Matters Court of Appeals overturned on Monday a decision banning leaders of the now-dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) from running in the upcoming presidential, parliamentary and local councils’ elections.

Nazra for Feminist Studies denounced in an online statement Sunday the physical assaults on female human rights activists, including Nahid Sherif and Fikreya Mohamed, experienced.

A draft law to regulate nongovernmental organizations would give the government and security agencies veto power over all activities of associations in Egypt and would sound the death knell for the independence these groups have fought to maintain. The government should throw out the current draft and enact new legislation to promote Egyptians’ right to freedom of association as enshrined in the constitution and international law, Human Rights Watch said.

An improvised explosive device detonated early on Monday morning at the courthouse of Samannoud, a city in Egypt's northern Al-Gharbiya Governorate, reported Reuters' Aswat Masriya.

A number of political parties and forces urged President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and the government to permanently open the Rafah Border Crossing following Israel’s deadly attacks against Palestinians on the sixth day.

The World Bank has approved a $300 million interest free loan to Egypt to fund micro and small enterprises (MSEs), Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour, Egypt's minister of industry, commerce and small and medium enterprises, announced on Sunday.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb said power outages will be resolved in 45 days when new power stations will start adding 1,880 MW to the service.

Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim made a surprise visit to Ismailia and Port Said security directorates. He also visited the Suez Canal and the Cairo-Ismailia and Cairo-Port Said highways.

Following recent oil price hikes ratified by the Cabinet on July 5, the mobile phone network operators Mobinil, Etisalat and Vodafone may increase the cost of recharge cards to cover additional expenses caused by the spike in fuel prices, a National Communication Regulatory Authority (NCRA) inside source told Anadolu Saturday evening.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has issued new amendments to raise military pensions 10% effective July 1, reported Al-Shorouq Thursday.