The Islamic State jihadist suspected of masterminding the Paris attacks was killed during a major police raid, prosecutors confirmed Thursday, as French lawmakers voted to extend a state of emergency imposed after the carnage.

Despite its expansion, Egypt's Suez Canal revenues dropped by 6.9 percent in October for the ninth consecutive month, reaching US$449.2 million compared to $482.3 million in the same month last year, according to the Suez Canal Authority.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development agreed to grant the Egyptian Railway Authority a loan of 126 million euros to manufacture six train units for the VIP train.

A British delegation is visiting Cairo Nov. 18 and 19 to negotiate the resumption of flights between the UK and Sharm al-Sheikh, the embassy announced Thursday.

The Egyptian Holding Airport and Air Navigation Company activated a security check plan in airports nationwide at a cost of EGP 175 million on the heels of the Kremlin's announcement that the ill-fated Russian jet was downed in Sinai in an alleged act of terrorism.

The World Bank expects to make a $1 billion development policy loan available to Egypt in December if all goes to plan after completing negotiations in Cairo last weekend, a senior World Bank official said.

Nasserist political figure and former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi slammed Wednesday the new House of Representatives, saying “we are standing before a weak parliament does not represent state ‘s domestic policy, nor the people.”

A bomb that downed a Russian plane in Egypt last month had been placed in the aircraft's main cabin not in the cargo compartment as reported earlier, the daily Kommersant said on Wednesday citing an unnamed source.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on all countries to join forces in the fight against international terrorism.

Deaths from terrorism in 2014 were at the "highest level ever recorded," according to a report issued on Tuesday, and its economic cost in the past year alone hit $52.9 billion.

Reuters reported that, "one of the security officials said CCTV footage showed a baggage handler carrying a suitcase from an airport building to another man, who was loading luggage onto the doomed airliner from beneath the plane on the runway."

President Vladimir Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt and intensify air strikes against Islamists in Syria, after the Kremlin concluded a bomb had destroyed the plane last month, killing 224 people.

The runoff election in four constituencies is scheduled to start over Dec. 5 after being canceled by court orders, Youm7 reported.

During his first meeting with the National Security Council, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi focused on several developmental issues regarding launching a new nuclear reactor, tourism development and encouraging investments.

SIM cards will not be sold except in official stores of Egypt’s three mobile operators for another two months, a top official at National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) told Youm7 Tuesday.

Unstable weather hit Egypt on Monday and is expected to last until the end of the week, Egypt's meteorological authority said, adding that the coastal city of Alexandria will be among the areas most affected.

An electoral list competing in the ongoing elections for Egypt’s House of Representatives has decried what its leaders suggest is a dominance of money and state bias during the first round of polls, which ended late October.

Egypt will reclaim an archeological mask, dating from the Roman-Greco era, in the period between 500 and 300 B.C. from Germany, announced Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Damaty Sunday.

Egyptian citizen Salah Emad al-Gebaly was killed in one of the six coordinated attacks that shook Paris Friday night, said Egypt’s Consul in France Serenade Gamil late Sunday.

The administrative court will issue a verdict in the lawsuit filed by lawyer Samir Sabry to strip activist Wael Ghoneim of his Egyptian nationality and citizenship on 17 January, on accusations of being an “agent”.

The Freedoms Committee at the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate denounced Sunday the “arbitrary detention” of a journalist who was arrested from his house Saturday, according to a statement issued by the committee.