Egyptian journalists called for protests on the stairs of downtown Cairo’s Journalists Syndicate on Tuesday on World Press Freedom Day to condemn the police’s unconstitutional storming of the building on Sunday and arrest of two journalists.

A report issued on Tuesday by Transparency International, a global civil society anti-corruption organization, stated that 28 percent of citizens in Egypt believe that corruption rates have increased in 2015.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will meet with a visiting Congressional delegation on Tuesday to discuss counter-terrorism issues and continued military relations between the two countries, the U.S. embassy in Cairo said in a statement Monday.

Egyptian naval forces thwarted an illegal immigration attempt off Egypt's northern coast heading to Europe, the army spokesman said on Sunday.

Several political entities and other syndicates declared their solidarity with the Press Syndicate on Monday, following security forces storming the building to arrest two journalists on Sunday evening.

Egypt's Press Syndicate has called for the immediate sacking of the interior minister and a general assembly on Wednesday in protest of the storming of its headquarters Sunday evening, in what it said was a first since its founding 75 years ago.

A delegation from the Homeland Security Committee of the US Congress arrived in Egypt on Monday to inspect security measures at Cairo and Sharm el-Sheikh airports.

Egypt's public prosecutor demanded on Saturday an investigation into the killing of 13 Egyptians in the Libyan city of Bani Walid earlier in April.

Egypt's Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany did not stop radar surveys on King Tutankhamun’s tomb upon the request of former minister Mamdouh Eldamaty or Egyptologist Nicolas Reeves.

Cairo’s Orman Park and 34 other parks in Egypt are ready to welcome the Sham el-Nessim celebrators, while police have intensified security at visitor attractions Monday.

Egypt's top prosecutor Nabil Sadek ordered on Thursday an investigation into the deaths of two Egyptians who died under suspicious circumstances earlier this month in the United States and the UK.

Hundreds of Egyptian journalists staged a march through central Cairo to the High Court on Thursday, and filed a complaint against Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar and the head of Cairo Security Directorate over police violations against journalists on April 25, a day on which activists had planned large-scale anti-government protests.

Some 1,593 tourists of various nationalities are scheduled to arrive at the Sharm al Sheikh Airport Wednesday aboard 11 international flights, the head of South Sinai’s task force Essam Khedr told Youm7.

The interior ministry has set a plan to "secure" Easter celebrations on Monday May 8th, which includes "secret police" to arrest those who commit sexual harassment, Maj. General Amgad Shafei told Aswat Masriya.

The Egyptian foreign ministry has slammed recent comments by Turkey’s FM about Egypt being “fragile” under President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's leadership, saying that such statements “reflect the psychological state” of Turkish officials since Egypt’s 30 June revolution of 2013.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi rebuked Wednesday the Minister of Interior and the Prime Minister over the “high cost” of security measures for the new headquarters of the Interior Ministry with 1,000 police conscripts.

Egypt's central bank sold US$118.7 million at its regular rate of 8.78 to the dollar at Tuesday's sale. Egypt's pound strengthened on the black market, traders quoting rates of 10.40/10.50 to the dollar, after it had sharply weakened in the past couple of weeks, hitting around 11.50 Egyptian pounds to the dollar.

Border guards thwarted an attempt by 54 persons who were attempting to cross the border from Egypt into Libya, Youm7 reported Wednesday.

At least 30 percent of Egyptians believe that the two islands of Tiran and Sanafir are Egyptian, while 23 percent consider them Saudi, according to a poll conducted by the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research, “Baseera”.

Rights defender and Chairman of the board of local NGO Egyptian Commission of Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) was arrested early Monday and detained for four days on Tuesday on charges that include advocating terrorism using the internet, his lawyer said.

Egypt's central bank sold $118.7 million at its regular rate of 8.78 to the dollar at Tuesday's sale.