Low voting rates continued throughout the runoff period during the first round of polls for the 569-seat House of Representatives' elections on Tuesday, hours after Egyptian diplomatic missions reported a similar moderate turnout on Monday.

EgyptAir, the state-owned flag carrier, is in final stages of launching an overhaul and expansion plan that will reverse its downturn and propel it towards growth, its chairman said on Tuesday.

Egypt’s pound held steady at 7.93 per dollar in a central bank foreign exchange (FX) auction on Tuesday, Youm7 reported.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi landed in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on Tuesday at the beginning of a three-stop tour which will include India and Bahrain, state run television reported.

Two Al-Dostour newspaper journalists, Shaimaa Hussein and Mohamed Alaa, were arrested on Tuesday while covering the runoff parliamentary elections in one of the polling stations in Giza.

Egypt's journalists’ syndicate filed a report on Sunday accusing the interior ministry of being behind the disappearance of journalist Mahmoud Mostafa Saad, a syndicate statement read.

Egypt's Suez Canal revenues fell 4.4 percent in September for the seventh consecutive month, reaching US$448.8 million, compared to $469.7million in the same month last year, according to the Suez Canal Authority.

Egyptian expatriates from 139 different countries are voting today in runoffs for the first phase of elections for the 596-seat House of Representatives.

The United States embassy in Egypt celebrated Sunday the resumption of the US-Egypt joint production of military tanks M1A1 in the Egyptian Tank Plant 200, a military factory located in Helwan's industrial zone, south of Cairo.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir Sunday, where bilateral relations and the Syrian crisis were discussed, along with proposed plans to hold more frequent meetings to enhance coordination.

Five people were killed in accidents related to the bad weather that struck the coastal governorate of Alexandria on Sunday, the health ministry said.

An electoral alliance has announced it is withdrawing its candidates from the second phase of the House of Representatives' elections slated for November 23, citing several breaches and media biases.

Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazy and a high-level delegation left to Madrid Sunday to hold “many fruitful discussions” on military cooperation between Egypt and Spain, according to a statement by military spokesperson Mohamed Samir.

The chairman of Mada Foundation NGO Hesham Gaafar is being investigated for receiving "international" funds "to harm Egypt's national security" and for belonging to a banned organisation, a lawyer involved in his case told Aswat Masriya on Sunday.

A press conference was organised Sunday between the Egyptian and the Saudi Foreign Ministers at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in Cairo, following a private meeting between them.

A political alliance loyal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has scooped all 60 list seats up for grabs in the first round of a parliamentary election in which opposition parties were all but absent, official results showed on Wednesday.

Turnout in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary election was 26.56 percent, the election commission said on Wednesday, confirming estimates of low participation among Egyptians disillusioned with the turbulent political transition.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) kept the pound steady at 7.93 per dollar in a foreign exchange (FX) auction on Thursday, unchanged from Tuesday’s sale.

A statement issued by the Giza security directorate to Aswat Masriya confirmed that Egypt's Homeland Security police had arrested Wednesday the foundation's chairman Hesham Gaafar, without mentioning the reason for his arrest.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi appointed Tarek Amer as governor of Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), succeeding Hisham Ramez who resigned Wednesday, after nearly two years and eight months in the job. Amer is supposed to hold this position for four years, effective from 27 November 2015 to 27 November 2019.

Egypt's central bank governor Hisham Ramez will not renew his term when it expires in November and will be replaced by senior banker Tarek Amer, the presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.