Tax authorities begin tax evasion and money laundering probe but refuse to say how many people are under investigation

2 tombs to be open for visitors in 15 days at Giza East Field

Russia is proud of the level of its relations with Egypt, in particular the personal relationship between President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Russian ambassador said on Sunday.

Iran has finalized a historic deal with Boeing to buy passenger planes from the U.S. aircraft manufacturer as part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the country's civilian air fleet, Iranian media reported Tuesday.

Egypt's president AbdelFattah al-Sisi said that "stability and security" are the main "achievements" that the country has seen over the past two years, at an iftar dinner on Saturday

Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on Jun. 15, 2016

Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on Jun. 14, 2016

A Cairo misdemeanor court acquitted on Tuesday 51 from charges of illegally protesting on 25 April in downtown Cairo against a recent Egypt-Saudi deal that redrew maritime borders between the two countries. The prosecutors had referred the defendants to court on charges of protesting without a permit as per the country's Protest Law.

Egypt local news

Cairo, Jun 13 (Aswat Masriya) - The ministry of justice has rejected calls for cancelling prison punishments for blasphemy or ‘contempt of religion’ charges, Khaled al-Nashar, a media official and assistant for the ministry of justice said on Monday.

CAIRO, Jun 14 (Reuters) - The flight data recorders from an EgyptAir jet that crashed in the Mediterranean last month are expected to stop emitting signals on June 24, and search boats are working against the clock to retrieve them, Egyptian investigators said on Monday.

Egyptian investigators say time is running out in the search for the black boxes from an Egypt Air plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board.

Roundup of daily local news in Egypt:

Egypt strongly condemned on Sunday the “terrorist attack” in the state of Florida in the US which claimed the lives of 50 people and injured dozens.

The al-Faraeen TV channel, owned by ex-lawmaker and controversial media figure Tawfik Okasha, will resume broadcasting after three months of suspension within days.

Today's newspaper says:

Four people were killed and 16 injured in a crash on Friday suspected to have been caused by drug abuse, involving the deputy governor of Cairo's secretary.

Fire fighters extinguished on Sunday morning a fire that broke out at Ain Shams University’s Faculty of Commerce, located in Abbassiya district, Al-Youm7 independent news outlet reported.

Head of Agouza district denied reports that police raids on cafes aimed to crackdown on people who do not abide by fasting in Ramadan, Youm7 reported Friday.

Egypt’s Minister of Health Ahmed Emad al-Din Radi ordered Saturday to close a hospital in Alexandria over committing “serious irregularities,” according to a statement from the ministry.

Culture today,June 12,2016