Egypt's government aims to provide women and youth with lines of credit for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr said on Monday.

Egypt is currently working on finalising legalisation to combat illegal emigration from the country, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said during his speech at a high level UN plenary meeting in New York addressing the immigration and refugee crises.

Egypt failed to attract a single offer at its state grain tender on Monday, forcing it to cancel its third consecutive wheat purchase tender amid an ongoing standoff with suppliers over import policies.

Egypt's defence minister Sedki Sobhi met on Monday with his UK counterpart Sir Michael Fallon in Cairo where they discussed military cooperation between the two countries, the Egyptian Armed Forces announced.

Egypt's finance minister Amr El-Garhy said on Monday that the financial deal recently signed with the International Monetary Fund "won't solve] everything, but it is an important step on the way" to economic recovery.

Egypt's education minister El-Helaly El-Sherbeeny stated on Monday that maps included in this year's school text books do not specify which country holds sovereignty over the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, reported the Ahram Arabic website.

Egypt has reiterated its backing of the exiled government of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is fighting the Houthis, a rebel group that controls much of the country’s north.

The North Cairo Criminal Court has decided to freeze the assets of five human rights activists along with three prominent NGOs charged with illegally obtaining foreign funding for their work in Egypt.

Firefighters in Hurghada extinguished a huge fire at a health club and restaurant on a private beach on Sunday.

An adviser to U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign said on Sunday that Trump will meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday during the United Nations General Assembly, just as Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, is also scheduled to do.

An Egyptian criminal court on Sunday ordered the release of political activist from the April 6 Youth Movement Zizo Abdo over charges of attempting to topple the regime, defence lawyer Mokhtar Mounir has said.

A military court in the coastal city of Alexandria postponed on Sunday to 18 October its verdict against 27 workers of a state-owned ship building company over protests for better work conditions in May.

Egypt has said it's mission in the Italian city of Milano has held intensive talks with Italian security officials on developments in the probe into an Egyptian national who was run over by a truck last week.

Egypt's irrigation minister arrived Sunday evening to the Sudanese capital Khartoum to participate in the tripartite meeting between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan that will witness the signing of contracts with two foreign consultancy firms hired to study the impact of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) on downriver countries, state-owned MENA news agency reported.

Egypt's foreign ministry denounced on Sunday a White House statement calling for the release from prison of Egyptian-US activist Aya Hegazy, who is jailed over accusations of "exploiting street children."

Egypt's new supply minister has sacked the chairman of the Egyptian Holding Company for Silos and Storage and the head of the country's Internal Trade Development Agency, the state-owned MENA news agency reported on Sunday.

Egypt will send a technical delegation to Russia at the end of September from the ministries of trade and agriculture to discuss the temporary ban by Russia on the import of Egyptian agricultural products, Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry Tarek Kabil announced Saturday night after meeting with the Russian ambassador to Cairo.

The number of housing units constructed in Egypt during the past five years is 1.2 million, with investments up to EGP 109.6 billion by the public and private sectors, a CAPMAS report revealed on Sunday.

Egyptian national was killed by a truck in Italy city of Piacenza was accidentally standing near a protest by a group of Postmen when the truck, belongs to the company where he was working for, ran over him, his mother told 90 Minutes talk show on Mehwar channel on Saturday evening.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday called on the international community to work towards curtailing the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction as well as combating terrorism during a meeting of a large Cold War-era bloc in Venezuela.

Russia's food safety watchdog has banned fruit and vegetable imports from Egypt over sanitary concerns, following an earlier decision by Egypt that hurt Russian wheat imports.