The Beheira prosecution ordered on Sunday the detention of four men pending investigation into charges of arranging the trip for migrants on the boat that sank off the Rosetta coast late last month.

Egyptian business tycoon Hussein Salem's family argues that his payment of billions of pounds to the government in exchange for the dropping of charges against him is "unlawful," with his daughter referring to the funds as "donations," the family said in an interview with prominent TV host Amr Adib on his show Kol Youm.

Egypt condemns in the "strongest terms" the Houthi attack against an Emirati maritime vessel in the strategic Bab Al-Mandab strait in the Red Sea, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Sunday.

During his visit to Japan to inaugurate the Pyramid Builders exhibition in its fifth round, Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany witnessed the signing of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) between the Tokyo National Museum and the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM).

Egypt's flagship airline EgyptAir is set to resume Luxor-London trips starting Monday following a one-year suspension of flights between the two destinations, a statement by the airline read on Sunday.

A delegation of the African Development Bank (ADB) arrived in Egypt ahead of delivering the second tranche of its loan to the country.

China has ranked the 23rd among the top states investing in Egypt, Youm7 quoted Mohamed Khodeir, the chief executive of the General Authority for Investment.

Three workers in an electrical company were killed and three of their colleagues were injured when the vehicle transporting them to work hit an IED in the west of Al Arish city in North Sinai, state news agency MENA reported.

Egypt is expected to sign a financing agreement worth $500 million with the World Bank next week to support the Upper Egypt Local Development Programme, after the bank's board approved the programme.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir will co-chair a bilateral high committee meeting in Cairo next week, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported on Saturday.

Egypt’s education ministry has set the annual tuition fee increase rate for private schools for the next five years, according to a statement reported by Al-Ahram Arabic.

Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Saturday a five year jail sentence issued to two national security police officers over the torturing of a lawyer to death while in custody in 2015, ordering a retrial.

Egypt's National Council for Women will file a report with the state’s top attorney against a parliamentarian over his "offensive remarks against women in Egypt and abroad," a member of the council said on Saturday.

Egypt's High Administrative Court will hold next Saturday the first session to hear the government's appeal against a court ruling which voided Cairo's decision to acknowledge Saudi sovereignty over two Red Sea islands.

The US Embassy in Cairo condemned on Friday with the "strongest terms" the attack on Egypt's deputy prosecutor-general Zakaria Abd El-Aziz Azmy in New Cairo Thursday, an embassy statement read.

Last week, Egypt’s telecom regulator, the National Telecom Regulatory Authority, said it may offer the 4G service licences by international tender after the three local mobile operators—Vodafone Egypt, Orange Egypt, and Etisalat—declined to apply for it due to terms and conditions of the 4G licence set by NTRA.

Egypt gave the green light on Thursday for Interpol and the European Union to drop charges against Hussein Salem, a businessman ally of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, a senior justice ministry official said.

Nine passengers were rescued from drowning after a microbus fall into an Upper Egypt conduit, Youm7 reported.

A total of 32 Egyptian fishermen have called up on authorities to help them return home after their Saudi sponsors allegedly abused some of them, Youm7 reported from a video.

A court in Cyprus on Friday ordered the extradition of an Egyptian who hijacked an aircraft with a fake explosive belt, diverting it to the island in March.

Egypt wants to receive the second tranches of World Bank and African Development Bank (ADB) loans before the end of this year, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail told Reuters on Thursday.