Egypt’s overall budget deficit widened to 2.4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) reaching LE 68.3 billion for July-August 2015, compared to 2.3 percent (LE 56 billion) during the same period last year, according to a report by the Finance Ministry.

The total number of Egyptian expatriates who voted in the first phase of legislative elections was 30,531 in 139 embassies and consulates across the world, said Ayman Abbas, head of the Supreme Elections Committee (SEC) Tuesday.

The first round of parliamentary elections witnessed 44 cases of violation against journalists, according to Journalists Against Torture Observatory’s report released on Tuesday.

If you're wondering whether you just ran into a Morgan Freeman lookalike in Khan El-Khalili, wonder no more. The Hollywood superstar is actually in town to film a new documentary series called "The Story of God" and you're very likely to run into him in one of Cairo's many tourist attractions.

Results of voting inside Egypt in the first phase of legislative elections will be announced Wednesday, said Omar Marwan, official spokesman of the Supreme Elections Commission (SEC) Monday night.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with Sergey Kirienko, director of the Russian government-run nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, on Monday, during which they discussed an offer by the corporation to construct Egypt’s long-awaited electricity-generating nuclear plant.

There were only minor clashes in different cities on the second day of the parliamentary elections, the Ministry of Interior reported Tuesday. There were no dangers that might have stopped voters from reaching their polling stations.

A microbus full of veiled senior women in the quiet streets of Giza approaches an electoral polling station at Nasr Al-Din Primary School and parks, where the young driver can be heard instructing “choose ‘For the Love of Egypt’; you have two voting cards”.

The Ministry of Local and Administrative Development will collect fines of non-voters if necessary, the minister said on Monday, the second day of the first stage in the parliamentary elections.

The voter turnout for the first day of elections for the 568-seat House of Representatives on Sunday stood between 15-16 percent, according to Prime Minister Sherif Ismail.

Egypt will delay its second international bond issuance, which was initially planned for November, the finance minister said on the sidelines of a conference on Monday.

In a comic twist, away from the frenzied debates between the boycotting and voting camps, Egypt's virtual activists started an #instead_of_voting hashtag, where users made hilarious suggestions on what to do instead of going to the polls to mark the first of two days of voting for Egypt's next parliament.

As the second day of the parliamentary elections was beginning, the Interior Ministry reported a minor exchange of fire Sunday night near polling stations in Giza and Sohag, stating that the violence is not related to the elections.

A total of 46 polling stations in Minya are being merged into nearby stations due to judges’ tardiness, the High Elections Committee (HEC) branch in the Upper Egyptian governorate decided Sunday.

The Administrative Court will consider Sunday a lawsuit filed to block the social networking website Facebook in Egypt, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's market closed in the red zone on Sunday, as the benchmark EGX30 index went down 0.74 percent, to 7,538.22 points with a turnover of LE279 million, the Egyptian Exchange data showed.

Egyptians turned out in low numbers on Sunday to vote in the first phase of an election hailed by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a milestone on the road to democracy but shunned by critics who say the new chamber will rubber stamp his decisions.

When Egyptians head to the polls today and tomorrow to choose their representatives in the 2015 legislature, they will probably find very few women's names on the ballots, even though women account for almost half of the electorate.

Egyptian renowned novelist Gamal al-Ghitany, best-known for his esteemed Zeeni Barakat, died Sunday at the age of 70, Youm7 reported.

Egypt will launch the planned new administrative capital project and the new north coast city project during an international conference at the end of October, state-owned news agency MENA quoted Housing Minister Moustafa Madbouly as saying.

Egypt's central bank allowed the Egyptian pound to weaken to LE7.83 per dollar from LE7.73, the first official depreciation since July and which economists say is needed to ease a foreign currency crisis and support dwindling FX reserves.