Prosecutors in the town of Abu Kebir, Sharqiya Governorate, have ordered the detention of 12 people on suspicion of demolishing the house of a man charged with killing an eight-year-old boy.

Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker said on Thursday that he plans to announce new price categories for electricity usage, saying that a press conference will be arranged soon for the purpose.

The Egyptian embassy in Damascus has successfully repatriated an Egyptian family stranded in the war-torn country, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr has recently met with a delegation of the Saudi Fund for Development, where she discussed the final procedures for the provision of $500 million as a first batch of the total financing worth $1.5 billion that will be allocated for the Sinai Peninsula Development Program.

When Egypt announced plans to develop renewable power in 2014, investors piled in, drawn by year-round sunshine and chronic electricity shortages. Two years on, many projects have stalled, hitting confidence among foreign investors Egypt sorely needs.

Finance Minister Amr al-Garhy has announced that talks with an International Monetary Fund delegation, which is currently visiting Cairo, have been going well, largely meeting the aspirations of the Egyptian government.

Egypt's stock exchange is changing its rules on global depositary receipts (GDRs) to encourage companies to increase their "free float" of shares at home before looking abroad to raise money.

Egypt will sell stakes of between 20 and 30 percent in state companies that it decides to float on the stock exchange, Finance Minister Amr al-Garhy said on Thursday.

The president of the Consumer Protection Agency has dismissed rumors on social media that a company operating in Egypt is selling and marketing a car called "Nano Egypt" at a cost of only LE25,000.

Egypt’s general prosecution ordered Thursday the four-day detention of a police officer pending investigations into murder of a man in an exchange of fire with police in the Minya village of El-Baiho.

Egyptian armed forces announced Thursday the killing of militant group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis leader Abu Doaa Al-Ansari and a number of his associates in air strikes against the group's strongholds south and south-west of Al-Arish in Sinai, the army spokesman said.

An Egyptian administrative court adjourned on Thursday 12 cases brought against the controversial Egyptian-Saudi island deal to look at documents submitted by the government to support its case, a judicial source said.

Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail's body is set to arrive in Egypt on Saturday ‎morning for a ‎military funeral and burial that will be held in the morning of the next day.‎

Egypt's military hoisted the Egyptian flag Thursday on an advanced new warship it received from Russia at a ceremony by the Armed Forces, an army statement said.

"You have the High Dam in Egypt, and we hope to have the GERD, because we want electricity and our country to grow,” an Ethiopian taxi driver in Addis Ababa told Ahram Online, “and I am paying for this dam.”

Seventy MPs have announced their outright rejection of a bill submitted to parliament by MP Mahmoud Attia granting Egyptian nationality to foreigners who deposit US$5 million or more in an Egyptian bank.

Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Sahr Nasr and Minister of Housing Mostfafa Madbouly has met Wednesday evening with director of Cairo Bureau of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Philip Tirrot to discuss financing a project of waste water treatment in Abu Rawash city, 8 km to the North of Giza, according to a statement from the Ministry of International Cooperation Thursday.

Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged that the UK would work towards propping up Egypt's ailing economy and increase British investment in the country, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported.

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo joins Egyptians, Americans, and friends around the world in mourning the passing of Ahmed Zewail, a leading contributor to the world of science, said the embassy in a statement.

Egyptian Ministry of Emigration Nabila Makram stated that her country may go to the international jurisdiction over the case of the Egyptian national Mohamed Al Naggar, who died in German prison late June.