In its first statement on the third day of elections, Egypt's Press Syndicate reported several violations of media freedoms, including barring reporters from covering the vote at polling stations.

The Egyptian Navy has stopped an attempted illegal emigration operation by 87 individuals, including Syrians who were fleeing the country on a fishing boat off the coast of Alexandria.

The overall turnout of the Egyptian voters in the initial two days of presidential election 2014 reached only 7.5 percent of the total number of people listed in the electoral rolls, according to The Egyptian Center for Media and Public Opinion Studies, known as Takamol Masr.

Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said on Tuesday that those who do not vote in the country's presidential election will be fined in accordance with the law.

The turnout on the second day of Egypt's presidential election is low, a judge at one of the polling stations said.

The Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) has extended voting in Egypt's presidential election by one more day, making Wednesday day three in the contest between Hamdeen Sabahi and Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.

Ministry of Justice official spokesperson Abdel Azeem el-Ashry said the Ministry did not receive “substantial” complaints that could affect the elections process, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) revealed on Tuesday that it received 216 complaints on the first day of the Egyptian presidential polls, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

A homemade bomb exploded in Fayoum on Monday outside of a polling station, resulting in no causalities, a security source said.

A member of the Tamarod campaign, the grass root movement that led to the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last summer, was shot dead in Giza's Kerdasa district on Monday, the group announced.

Egypt's government said on Monday it plans to cut petroleum product subsidies in the next fiscal year but still expects the budget deficit to widen, signalling more tough times ahead as voters went to the polls to elect a new president.

More than 53 million Egyptians are voting on Monday and Tuesday in 14,000 stations across the republic to choose the countries next president.

Cabinet spokesperson Hossam al-Qawish said there will be no vacations on the two days of the presidential elections and called on government institutions to persuade employees to participate.

Millions of eligible Egyptian voters, equal to nearly 54 million voters, will head to polling stations on Monday and Tuesday on the 26 and 27 May to cast their ballots in the 2014 presidential elections being contested by former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Hamdeen Sabbahi.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former army officer soon to be Egypt’s president, promises to remedy Egypt’s crippling fuel shortage by installing energy-efficient bulbs in every home socket, even if he has to send a government employee to screw in each one.

Eight people were killed and seven others injured when a microbus flipped in the Al-Farouqiya Canal in Sohag allegedly from overspeeding.

Along a busy Cairo roundabout, a poster portrays presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a teacher, engineer, doctor and judge, reassuring supporters who see him asEgypt's saviour.

Three independent political figures known for their opposition to the army's intervention in Islamist president Mohamed Morsi's ouster and the subsequent violent crackdown against his supporters issued a statement on Saturday calling for unity and a return to the ideals of the 25 January 2011 uprising.

A DUBLIN Leaving Cert student imprisoned in Egypt is running out of time to get out safely, his family fear.

Bajaj Auto is trading higher by 3% to Rs 2,017, extending its previous day’s 5% rally, on reports that Egypt government has lifted the ban on imports of two-wheelers and three-wheelers into the country which was in effect since February 2014.

The pro-Morsi National Coalition to Support Legitimacy and Reject the Coup on Thursday called for its followers to continue their public protests and to boycott what they dubbed ''the elections of blood'' for Egypt's next president, to be held on May 26 and 27.