Departure halls and lounges at Cairo Airport have been crammed with passengers since Tuesday morning because of the introduction of a new system of processing and stamping passports, Youm7 reported.

Egypt was the top recipient of official development assistance (ODA) in 2013 at $5.5 billion, said United Nations report on Friday.

The Tadamon coalition of labour syndicates and associations that reject the application of the disputed Civil Service Law, said Monday it would escalate protest against the law after Eid Al-Adha.

The New Cairo court has extended the custody detention of former agriculture minister Salah Helal by 15 days over charges of corruption and bribery, which forced him out of office two weeks ago.

Egypt is concerned about the delay in finalising a political agreement between the competing factions in Libya, the foreign ministry's spokesman, Ahmed Abu-Zeid, said Monday in a statement.

Egypt’s Military Chief of the Staff Mahmoud Hegazy and his U.K counterpart Nicholas Houghton, Chief of Defense Staff for the UK Armed Forces met to discuss cooperation on counter-terrorism efforts and Libyan security turmoil, announced UK ambassador to Egypt John Casson Sunday.

Mubarak-era politician Ahmed Ezz retracted Monday a request to change the judges panel in an apeal filed against disqualifying him from running in the coming parliamentary elections.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi stated Saturday that the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been witnessing daily violations that are increasing at an unprecedented rate, leading to a very critical condition.

Forty-eight percent of Egyptians reject the participation of parties with a religious preference in parliamentary elections, 29 percent approve and 23 percent are undecided, according to a poll by the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera).

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with a US Congress delegation on Saturday in Cairo, and invited the group to monitor Egypt's parliamentary elections, scheduled to start in October.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in on Saturday as he tries to rebuild an economy battered by Islamist militant violence.

A 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian leather illuminated manuscript containing incantations and colorful figures of supernatural beings has been discovered at the Egyptian Museum.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appointed former Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb assistant to the president for national and strategic projects, said the presidency on Saturday.

Local Egyptian NGO is attempting to revoke the licences of a Norwegian news team working in Egypt, after the latter’s company was involved in investigating alleged money-laundering crimes by an affiliate NGO based in Norway.

Egypt's High Elections Committee (HEC) announced it has started to receive appeals against its decision of which candidates to allow to stand in the upcoming elections, the committee announced on Thursday.

A 3D video mapping show, narrating the biography of Queen Cleopatra, will be projected Thursday on the façade of Alexandria’s Qaitbey Citadel.

Media host Eiman al-Hossary has apologized for misreporting remarks by Mexico’s president after it was revealed that her source is a satirical news website.

Workers were seen demolishing a part of the wall surrounding the American University in Cairo on Thursday. "In the framework of beautifying Tahrir Sqaure, the Egyptian government asked the American University in Cairo to either develop or remove its Science building along with its walls on Mohamed Mahmoud street," Rehab Saad, Director of Media Relations at the American University of Cairo, told Aswat Masriya in a phone interview.

The electoral campaign for Egypt's house of representatives will start on September 29 and last for 18 days, said the spokesman of the Supreme Elections Committee on Wednesday.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will receive Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu in Cairo following the accidental killing of Mexican tourists on a safari trip in Egypt on Sunday, the presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.

Gas stations across Egypt are being overwhelmed by people seeking fuel, while the government continues to insist that supplies are adequate.