A Qalioubiya criminal court acquitted on Wednesday Farouk Lashin, the former head of Qalioubiya state security, and two of his aides, of killing protesters during the 2011 uprising.

Egyptian security forces on Tuesday carried out a prosecutor's order to transfer 10 rare-species animals from a private ranch in rural Giza to Giza Zoo, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir signed a comprehensive partnership agreement on Wednesday in Cairo during bilateral high committee meetings, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

The decision by an Egyptian court to overturn a previous court ruling that blocked the handing over of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia has no legal standing, a constitutional law professor told Ahram Online, adding that only the country's top administrative judicial authority can decide on the matter.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) kept the local currency’s rate stable at EGP 8.78 against the US dollar at Tuesday’s regular forex auction, the bank’s official website showed.

Beltone Financial, Egypt's largest asset manager, said on Tuesday it had acquired 60 percent of New York-based brokerage firm Auerbach Grayson & Company.

The Egyptian Petroleum Ministry announced it has signed 15 oil and gas search agreements worth $14.3 billion with foreign companies during the fiscal year 2015-2016, Youm7 reported on Tuesday.

The International Monetary Fund has raised its forecast for Egypt’s economic growth in 2016 to 3.8 percent, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

The Egyptian and Russian parliaments said Tuesday that they must take a unified stand against the forceful changing of Middle East regimes by foreign powers.

Egypt’s administrative prosecution referred officials from the state-owned Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) to disciplinary court on Tuesday for negligence and malpractice over the airing of an old interview with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi by mistake.

Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday called for an "urgent ceasefire" in Syria's battered northern city of Aleppo to allow the flow of humanitarian aid to residents.

Egypt's House of Representatives passed on Tuesday a controversial civil service law which it had approved in July but was referred to State Council for revision.

The speaker of Egypt’s parliament Ali Abdel-Al referred on Tuesday maverick ‎independent MP Ilhami Agina to ‎the ethics committee for investigation after Agina said that any woman who wishes to join ‎university must first undergo a virginity test.

A Cairo criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence on Tuesday to two people for "joining a militant organization" in a trial known in the media as "The returnees from Libya."

Egypt signed a framework agreement with China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) to develop the second and third phase of construction in the new administrative capital east of Cairo with an investment of $20 billion, the cabinet stated on Monday.

The Egyptian government is planning to increase subsidies on household goods to prevent soaring prices resulting from an imminent currency devaluation, government sources told Al-Masry al-Youm on Monday.

A worker living in an apartment, composed of two rooms and hall in Daqahliya governorate, has been landed with a huge electricity bill from the East Mansoura Electricity Company amounting to LE51,500, which is the value of consumption of September.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has announced a US$3 billion increase in net foreign reserves in late September compared with late August, as the government continues to seek foreign sources of funding to prop up the economy.

Health Minister Ahmed Emad el Din on Tuesday will launch a national demographic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) survey to be carried out on 10 million Egyptians, Youm7 reported.

A total of 16,000 people were killed and 60,000 others injured in road accidents in Egypt during the first 9 months of 2016, Samy Mokhtar, head of the Egyptian Association for the Care of Road Accident Victims and their families said on Monday.

President Abdel Fatah al Sisi will address the nation Oct. 9 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Egypt’s parliamentary life, head of the parliament’s media committee Osama Hekal said in a press conference Monday.