Egyptwill decrease land area used for rice production in the 2017 season with a decrease of 34.6 percent, according to a decree issued by the Ministry of Irrigation and published in the Official Gazette on Sunday.

The Egyptian Ambassador to Kuwait Yasser Atef said that Egypt-Gulf coordination is at its highest levels, in statements to “Al Anbaa” Kuwaiti newspaper.

Egypt has extended the opening of Rafah border crossing, which connects it to the Gaza Strip, for one more day, Youm7 reported.

The Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX) opened Sunday session at a collective rise of its indexes, Youm7 reported.

More Indian investments worth 50 million EGP will be pumped into the field of seed production in Egypt during the year 2017, according to a press statement by the Indian Embassy in Cairo.

Hotel occupation in Upper Egypt’s Luxor city exceeded 30 percent, Tourist expert Mohamed Othman said, as he expects this season to see high turnout after new tourist markets were opened.

Cardiologist Ahmed el-Gendy, who works at Magdi Yaqoub Foundation, said that approximately 120 to 130 thousand Egyptians develop heart disease annually, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered on Saturday "increased security at vital facilities" after a high-ranking army officer was shot dead on the outskirts of Cairo earlier in the day.

Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday during a press conference with his Spanish counterpart in Cairo that there is no conflict between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over Egypt’s vote in a UN resolution on the Syrian civil conflict.

Egyptian authorities have implemented most airport security measures demanded by Russia with the remaining ones to be put in place in coming weeks, an aide to the Egyptian interior minister, Hisham Bastawi, said on Friday.

Members of the government's human rights watchdog have criticized the appointment on Monday of two former policemen to parliaments' Human Rights Committee.

Egypt has 14.6K feddans of potatoes free of brown rot out of a total 521.7K feddans of the crop across the country, announced the Ministry of Agriculture.

Seven people were killed and six others were injured on Friday when a public bus collided with a microbus in Nasr City, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

Egypt's state grain buyer GASC said on Thursday it bought 120,000 tonnes of Russian wheat in a tender.

Port Said tourist port is set to receive one of the largest tourist ships with 2,000 crew members on Friday, Youm7 reported.

Egyptian Ministry of Supply is considering a proposal to establish a series of hyper-markets nationwide, to meet the citizens’ needs of basic goods and to alleviate some basic food shortage crisis. Egypt suffers shortage in sugar, rice.

Supply police at Upper Egypt’s governorate of Sohag seized on Thursday more than three tons of subsidized sugar amid growing shortages in the basic commodity on the market, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's office announced that the country's First National Youth conference will kick off next Tuesday for three days in Sharm El-Sheikh.

The Egyptian cabinet has decided to cut its spending and reduce Egypt's representation from various ministries in diplomatic missions abroad in a belt-tightening measure, the cabinet spokesman said in a statement.

Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr met with the new Kuwaiti ambassador to Cairo Mohammed Saleh Thuwaikh, talking about accelerating the implementation of the development projects in Sinai, according to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry on Wednesday.