Egypt's non-oil private sector contracted, in output, new orders in October and employment dropped to its lowest level in eight months, survey figures from Emirates NBD and Markit Economics showed Tuesday.

Chief of staff Lt. General Mahmoud Hegazy met Monday in Cairo with visiting U.S. military delegation headed by commander of Naval Forces Central Command Rear Admiral Kevin M Donegan, Youm7 reported.

Campaigning in the second phase of Egypt's parliamentary elections began Tuesday, officially kick-starting the competition across 102 constituencies in 13 Egyptian provinces.

The Press Syndicate announced in a statement on Monday their support for the Egyptian Chamber of Audiovisual Media Industry’s decision to ban Al-Zamalek president Mortada Mansour from appearing on any of its member channels.

The Russian airline whose jet crashed in Egypt killing everyone on board said on Monday the crash could not have been caused by a technical fault or human error.

Many expected talk show hosts to change their attitude and praise Sisi after he criticized the media for the way it covers issues. But what happened instead was that Ibrahim Eissa, Rola Kharsa, Lamis al-Hadidi and Youssef al-Husseini criticized the president in their turn.

Egyptian national ID cards may be issued in colors as part of developments carried out to the civil affairs sector, Youm7 reported Monday.

Article 99 of the Egyptian constitution stipulates that any violation of personal freedom or the sanctity of the private life of citizens, or any other public rights and freedoms which are guaranteed by the constitution and the law, is a crime.

A Russian aviation official said that the Russian plane that crashed in the Sinai desert on Saturday was destroyed in mid-air, as a deadline for the search operations at the site of the fatal crash nears expiry, a Russian minister said.

The Russian Airbus that crashed in Egypt broke apart "in the air," a senior official with Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee said Sunday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said an investigation into the causes of Saturday's Russian plane crash in which 224 people were killed could take months.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) held pound steady at 7.93 per dollar in a foreign exchange (FX) auction on Sunday, as the bank sold $37.8 million at a cut-off price of 7.9301 EGP/ dollar.

Workers at Mahallah’s Misr Spinning and Weaving Company ended an 11-day strike Sunday following an written guarantee that they will be granted the 10 percent social allowance promised by the president to be given retroactively starting July.

Egypt, Emirates and Oman were among the 117 countries that voted Israel into the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) membership on Friday.

Egypt's High Elections Commission has said that the final results of the recently concluded first stage of parliamentary elections will most likely be announced on Friday.

A young activist widely-credited for triggering Egypt’s 2011 uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak has said he had a naive outlook on the hope of a democratic transition, adding that it was that wrong assessment that obliged him to keep silent in recent years.

A total of 371 tons of food products and 980,000 juice cartons were confiscated for being unfit for human consumption, Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafy announced Thursday.

Despite being protected in the constitution, laws and ministerial decrees, children in Egyptian schools are still subject to corporal abuse, with one of the latest cases involving the flogging of a 10-year-old child 40 times for speaking in class.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi made a public speech when he attended the Third India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS-3) with the presence of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday.

Economists in Egypt are divided over the direction the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) will move its key policy interest rate in its next meeting on Thursday 29 October.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has directed government agencies to give their employees a half-day leave on Wednesday, as a means of offsetting low voter turnout on the last day of runoff polls for the first round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections.