The new Suez Canal project will start its trial operation process on Saturday, 11 days before the official inauguration on 6 August, Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Investment Minister Ashraf Salman said that Egypt is targeting a GDP growth rate of 4.5 –4.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015/16, according to daily business Al-Borsa newspaper.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said Egypt is making “advancements in politics, economy and security” during a meeting on Monday with Egyptian expats in Equatorial Guinea.

The new Suez Canal shipping-route project will be completed before Saturday, according to Mohab Mamesh, head of the Canal Authority.

A campaign against sexual harassment has recorded 223 cases of sexual harassment in Cairo during the three days of the holy Islamic Eid al-Fitr from Friday to Sunday.

France delivered the first three Rafale fighters to Egypt Monday, among the 24 Rafale air jets deal signed in February, Youm7 reported.

Italian oil and gas company Eni has discovered natural gas in Egypt’s Nile Delta, with initial estimates suggesting a quantity of 15 billion cubic meters of gas and condensate, Egypt’s Petroleum Ministry said on Monday.

The presidency has pardoned 424 prisoners on Friday to mark Eid Al-Fitr, state news agency MENA reported.

A total of 41,042 Egyptian and foreign tourists visited the Giza Pyramids during the three days of Eid holidays, head of the Cairo and Giza Central Administration for Antiquities Kamal Wahid told MENA on Sunday.

The level of verbal harassment in Downtown Cairo on Saturday rose to "unprecedented levels", while there were no incidents of mob harassment, the anti-sexual harassment group Shoft Taharosh (I Saw Harassment) said on Sunday.

Unleashing the hidden side of the refugees’ conditions in Egypt, the Platform is a one-issue magazine produced as a graduation project of three Egyptian students at The Faculty of Mass Communication of October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA.)

From almost complete support to charges of failure and warnings of the anger of the poor ranged the assessments of journalists and politicians of the performance of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a year after his inauguration.

Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab will arrive in Equatorial Guinea Monday to stay for two days then will head to Italy from July 22-24, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Egypt completed dredging for the new shipping route in the Suez Canal, which will be inaugurated on August 6th, according to a report from the armed forces published by Aswat Masriya on Thursday.

Egypt’s Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar removed on Thursday Cairo's security chief, Maj. Gen. Ossama Bedeir.

A total of 63, 389 Egyptians have arrived at the Sallum border crossing from the war-torn Libya since the beheading of 20 Egyptian Copts by Islamic State (IS) militants in February, Youm7 reported Thursday.

Egypt has banned the import of laser pens due to their harmful effects, Industry and International Trade Minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour announced on Thursday.

Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghafar has sacked the chief of Cairo security directorate Osama Bedeir, Youm7 reported Thursday.

International credit agency, Moody's, upgraded on Wednesday its outlook for the Egyptian banking system to stable from negative on the back of government recent commitment to fiscal reforms and improving macroeconomic indicators.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has received a letter from the government of Greece, objecting to the Egyptian government's decision to ban the export of cotton, according to a senior figure in the government, noting that the decision may compel the Greek government to ban Egyptian imports in return.

A policeman acknowledged he shot lawyer Mohamed el-Gamal after he heard people screaming “catch this defendant” in a Cairo Court Saturday.