Egypt's Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said on Thursday his country was seeking to reach an agreement with Iraq over importing crude oil directly and that he hoped to finalise the deal by the first quarter of 2017.

The Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister, Ambassador Ibrahim Yusri, has filed two lawsuits before the State Council to annul agreements which he said are in violation of the Egyptian constitution and harm the country’s interests.

The World Bank's board of executive directors approved on Tuesday a second US$1 billion disbursement from a US$3 billion loan to Egypt to support its economic reform programme.

During excavation work carried out below the visitors’ pathway in the northern part of the west Aswan cemetery, at Qubbet Al-Hawa site, archaeologists from the University of Birmingham and the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) Qubbet Al-Hawa Research Project (QHRP), stumbled upon what is believed to be an ancient Egyptian encroachment wall.

Egypt's Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has said a "sovereign body" will be in charge of printing the Thanaweya Amaa exams—Egypt's standardised high school final exams—to prevent the test being leaked prior to test day.

Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry discussed in a meeting with his Libyan counterpart Mohamed Taha Siala on Tuesday the implementation of the UN-brokered Skhirat agreement of 2015, which aims at resolving the Libyan civil conflict.

The Egyptian pound depreciated further against the dollar in some banks mid-Tuesday, reaching a selling price of 19.75 compared to between 18.95 and 19.15 on Monday.

The Ministry of International Cooperation signed two grant agreements with the European Union (EU) on Tuesday totalling €120m. The grants will support small enterprises and increase the number of children benefiting from the school meals programme.

Egypt’s parliament approved on Monday an 89-article draft law aimed at setting up a syndicate for workers in audio-visual media for the first time.

Egypt's High Administrative Court has set 16 January as the date when it will rule on the government’s appeal against an earlier court ruling that nullified Egypt’s agreement with Saudi Arabia to hand over two Red Sea islands to the Gulf country.

Egypt's former prime minister and 2012 presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq was officially removed from travel ban and arrival watch lists on Monday, said Shafiq's lawyer Dina Hussein.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has pledged up to $2 billion to Egypt in new investments over the next three years, underlining its support for the country's private sector, the IFC said in an emailed statement on Thursday.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued on Saturday a number of decrees through which he made several changes in the high-ranking leadership of the Egyptian army, according to an official statement by the army spokesperson.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi headed to Uganda on Sunday for a one-day official visit. The visit comes in response to an invitation from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, according to presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef. It targets talks with the president and senior Ugandan officials over boosting bilateral ties. The talks will also tackle several African issues of joint interest.

An EgyptAir source said the prices of tickets for domestic flights increased between 15 to 30 percent after the flotation of the Egyptian pound in November, Al-Borsa News reported.

Egypt’s civil ‎aviation ministry said on Thursday that traces of explosives were found on the remains of the victims on the EgyptAir Paris-Cairo flight that crashed over the Mediterranean last summer. The investigative committee looking into the crash will refer the matter to the Egyptian general ‎prosecution, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Mostafa Amin, general secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, has ordered on Thursday security tightened at all archaeological sites and museums across Egypt in the wake of Sunday's deadly bombing in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Cairo, which left 25 dead and more than 40 injured.

The ‘Egypt Can’ convention, a gathering of foreign-based Egyptian scientists at the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, started its first session on Wednesday in attendance of Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail.

China's yuan joined the International Monetary Fund's basket of reserve currencies in October alongside the US dollar, the euro, the yen and the British pound.

Abu Simbel archaeological area in Aswan received on Monday 620 tourists of different nationalities from European and east Asian countries, despite the bombing of Abbaseya Church in Cairo on Sunday, the director of Abu Simbel archaeological area, Hossam Abboud, told Al-Borsa News on Monday.

The Egyptian government has been given a 30-day deadline to present a new version of the Criminal Procedures Law before the parliament to speed up trial procedures in terrorism cases, the head of Egypt's House of Representatives legislative and constitutional affairs' committee was quoted as saying by state-news agency MENA on Tuesday.