The Ministry of Antiquities will launch a project to restore and renovate the Baron Empain Palace in Cairo’s Heliopolis, the Ministry announced Sunday via its Facebook page.

In February Egypt saw a 45.9% decrease in tourists compared to February of 2015, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) reported Monday.

Italian investigators will ask for the phone records of 10 of Guilio Regeni’s friends and acquaintances from their Egyptian counterparts in a bilateral meeting scheduled to be held on Tuesday in which Egyptian investigations into the PhD student’s murder will be presented, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has published report showing the role of tax havens in the hiding huge fortunes of figures close to global and Arab political officials.

US Senator Lindsey Graham said at a press conference on Sunday after meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah-El-Sisi in Cairo that Egypt's stability "is more important than any other time," the Egyptian state-owned MENA agency reported.

An Italian tourism association decided on Thursday to suspend all activities, especially its travel programmes, in Egypt until the story behind Guilio Regeni’s death is “clarified”.

Egypt will start digging four tunnels to facilitate automobile movement beneath the Suez Canal by June, stated Egyptian Military engineering Authority chairperson Kamel Al-Wazir Sunday.

A Cairo criminal court referred on Sunday TV host Ahmed Moussa and former minister of justice Ahmed El-Zend to trial, to start on 4 June, for defaming and insulting Egypt's former top auditor Hisham Geneina.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation overturned Sunday three-year jail sentences of 14 students over charges of “illegal protesting, using and inciting violence, and attacking police personnel in 2014,” Youm7 reported.

A Cairo misdemeanour court upheld Thursday a three-year jail sentence handed down on Egyptian writer Fatma Naoot for contempt of religion.

Italy warned Egypt on Wednesday to be prepared for consequences if the fails to cooperate adequately in finding the murderers of Italian student Giulio Regeni.

Luxor and Queen Hatshepsut temples will be lit up in blue Saturday evening in honor of World Autism Awareness Day; Luxor Governor Mohamed Badr was quoted by Youm7.

Minister of Immigration Nabila Makram said on Thursday that the Egyptian students arrested in Sudan for leaking exams will be released next week.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his United States counterpart John Kerry in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit.

A Cyprus court on Wednesday ordered the detention for eight days of an Egyptian man who admitted to hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to the east Mediterranean island nation by threatening to blow it up with a fake explosives belt.

The Italian Senate has expressed its firm solidarity with the family of the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni who was found dead in Egypt last month.

Canada is expected to provide Egypt 50 million Canadian dollars in aid ($38.34 million USD) to subsidize nutrition of Egyptian and Syrian students in Egypt, and improve education systems in six Egyptian governorates, as well as support development for women and youth, the Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation stated Wednesday.

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Sunday to halt the Israeli government's plan to regulate the natural gas industry, in a move that is set to complicate export deals with Egypt and other states.

The Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP) severely criticised the dismissal of top auditor Hisham Geneina from his position as head of the Central Auditing Organisation (CAO), upon order of a presidential decree.

A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian plane on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on Tuesday and forced it to land in Cyprus, Egyptian officials said.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday sacked Egypt's top auditor who had stirred controversy by publicly concluding that government corruption had cost the country billions of dollars.