Egypt's foreign ministry denied Sunday recent media reports claiming that Egyptian troops were participating in operations with the Syrian army against rebels in the war-torn country.

Egypt's Meteorological Authority announced on Sunday that thunderstorms and heavy rain will hit the country starting Tuesday, with unstable weather peaking on Thursday and Friday.

Ministers of Irrigation and Agriculture will be summoned by the parliament to be questioned over a decision to entirely ban rice cultivation in Gharbiya governorate, Youm7 reported.

At least eight members of Egypt’s security forces were killed on Thursday in an attack on a checkpoint in the northern Sinai, a military spokesman said in a statement.

An Egyptian delegation including 12 MPs affiliated with parliament's foreign affairs committee will visit London Sunday to exchange views with British politicians and MPs on political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood and relations between Egypt and England.

The National Bank of Egypt (NBE), the country’s largest public lender, has relaxed its bank card purchase limits abroad to a maximum of EGP 100,000 per month for the highest credit category, up from EGP 65,000, Ahram Daily reported.

A Cairo misdemeanor court rejected on Saturday writer Ahmed Naji's appeal against a two-year prison sentence for publishing a “sexually explicit article” in a literary state newspaper.

Egypt's social solidarity ministry shut down an orphanage in Cairo's Nasr City over reports of abuse against a number of girls, state news agency MENA reported.

Eni has agreed to sell a 10 percent stake in Zohr’s Shorouk gas field concession to British Petroleum for $375 million, the Italian company said in a Friday statement.

Egypt and Jordan concluded on Friday joint military drills which began early this month in southern Jordan, state owned MENA agency reported.

The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) indexes showed mixed performance at the close of trading on Thursday amid selling operations by institutions and foreign investment funds and purchase operations by Arab and Egyptian investors, Youm7 reported.

Egyptian Free Zones provide 185,000 jobs and represent a separate project owned by the investor, said Chairman of Free Zones Sector at the General Authority for Investment Hossam Hadad on Thursday.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has condemned with the strongest words the terrorist bombing that rocked the Iraqi city of Hilla, which left scores of people dead and injured.

The government embarked on revising a database for holders of subsidized food commodities ration cards, Youm7 said, citing a statement of Prime Minister Sherif Ismaiel on Thursday.

A group of gunmen killed eight army personnel in an attack on a military checkpoint in the restive northern Sinai region, where forces are battling a militant insurgency, a military spokesman has said.

Six people were killed and at least 25 wounded in a multi-vehicle road crash north of Cairo on Thursday, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Minister of Defence Sedqi Sobhi attended on Thursday a major live-ammunition naval war games on the country's western borders, Ahram Rabic news website reported.

The Egyptian cabinet appointed Ashraf Sultan on Thursday as a new spokesman, succeeding Hossam El-Kaweish.