Advisor to the Health Minister Ahmed Aziz was ordered detained pending investigations Tuesday for accepting a 4.5 million EGP ($506,710,) bribe from the Egyptian agent of a European medical equipment company, Youm7 reported.

Egypt’s non-petroleum exports have increased by 8.85 percent to register $1.7 billion in April 2016, compared to $1.6 billion during the same period last year, Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Kabil was quoted by Al Ahram Monday.

Egypt's prosecution granted on Monday an LE10,000 bail for the Journalists Syndicate Head Yehia Qalash after being called in for questioning on an incident that started this month when police stormed the syndicate and arrested two journalists. Qalash refused to pay bail.

The German foreign minister has announced that German think-tank Friedrich Naumann will likely return its Middle East operations office to Cairo, reversing its former move to Jordan due to alleged restrictions imposed by the Egyptian government.

Four months into the new Egyptian parliament, at least 35 percent of Egyptians are satisfied with the legistlative body's performance, according to a poll conducted by the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera).

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has showed his solace and respect to a Coptic elderly woman, who was stripped naked by a group of Muslims in Upper Egypt’s Minya last week.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has officially opened two new areas of purpose-built housing in the Moqattam area of Cairo that aim to replace several areas of sub-standard and dangerous housing in Cairo, including Duwaiqa, Establ Antar and Ezbet Khairallah.

Egypt's manpower minister said on Sunday that he received confirmation that a Kuwaiti citizen who was videoed assaulting an Egyptian national has been arrested.

The body of a young girl has been referred to the Forensic Medicine department after she died in a circumcision operation at a private hospital in Suez, Youm7 reported Sunday.

The Egyptian State’s Commissioner Authority on Sunday has set May 31 to review lawsuits demanding the annulment of Egypt government’s decision to acknowledge Saudi Arabian sovereignty over the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, Al Ahram reported.

Four police personnel were released on bail Saturday while three others were detained pending investigations over “beating an elderly man to death” at a police station in Cairo Wednesday, Youm7 reported.

An Egyptian court sentenced Mubarak-era parliament speaker Safwat al-Sherif and his son to five years in prison for illicit profiteering and abusing power to make fortunes on Saturday.

The current head of the Supreme Constitutional Court and the country's former interim president, Adly Mansour, will step down from his post on 30 June

Egypt's president Sisi approved a $25 bln loan from Russia to build a nuclear power plant in Dabaa, according to the state's official newspaper published on Thursday.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's central bank said it is offering $120 million in its regular currency sale on Tuesday to be used for imports of pharmaceutical products, manufacturing components, vaccines and related chemicals and infant formula.

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As the Egyptian pound threatens to devaluate again, the Minister of Health hopes to promote local manufacturing of medicine.

Egypt's air accidents chief said on Thursday that a vessel provided by French company ALSEAMAR, which specializes in marine wreckage searches, will join within hours the hunt for the black boxes from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804.

Forty-seven people handed heavy fines for taking part in illegal protests have been denied permission to pay their fines in installments, meaning they may spend two months in prison instead.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion discussed Wednesday international efforts of reviving the stalled peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine as well as the Ottawa-Cairo military cooperation in the Sinai, Egyptian Presidential Spokesperson Alaa Youssef said in a statement.

Egypt’s central bank deputy governor for monetary policy is joining the International Monetary Fund in August, a central bank source told Reuters on Thursday.