Egypt has awarded four new licences to explore for oil and gas off its Mediterranean coast, weeks after Eni's giant Zohr gas find piqued fresh international interest in the area.

A U.S.-Belgian Dredging Coalition has won an international tender to dredge a new 9.5 kilometer-long shipping lane in East Port Said to facilitate international trade maritime navigation, officials from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said Tuesday.

In an unprecedented outcome for Egyptian political parties, women raked 19 of 43 seats in the Egyptian Democratic Part's high committee elections on Friday, exceeding the 33 percent women's quota by 10 percentage points.

The government is still in a state of confusion as a foreign currency crisis bites harder, with the Central Bank of Egypt stepping up efforts to resolve the crisis.

The Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi attended early Monday celebrations of the 42nd anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

Egypt's ambassador to Egypt, Khaled Tharwat, has told Al-Masry Al-Youm that following a conversation with Jordanian authorities, including the country's parliament speaker, the three Jordanian brothers who repeatedly slapped an Egyptian waiter at a restaurant in the city of Aqaba have been arrested.

The newly-appointed Egyptian cabinet will remain in power if the parliament due to be elected in October and November approves its agenda, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday.

In a staggering statistic, Osama Rostom, head of the chamber of pharmaceutical industries, said recently that the pharmacists syndicate estimated the existence of EGP 600 million worth of counterfeit and expired drugs in the Egyptian market, constituting 2 percent of the country's total annual pharmaceutical sales.

British Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has decided to initiate a second deferral period on the export license application of the Sekhemka statue till March 29, 2016.

Egypt will allow rice to be exported over the next six months at LE2000 ($255.2) per tonne, the industry and foreign trade ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received his Tunisian counterpart Beji Caid Essebsi at the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace on Sunday.

Sudan and Ethiopia have requested Egypt to convene the 9th round of their tripartite meetings to late October to talk the issue of a consultation firm for evaluating the impact of the under-construction Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), stated Egyptian Minister of Water Resource and Irrigation, Hossam Moghazy Sunday.

Egypt "fully supports besieging terrorism and fighting it wherever it is," Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman told Aswat Masriya on Sunday, adding that Egypt supports Russia's recent decision to strike targets in Syria.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi commemorated the 42nd anniversary of the 6th of October, 1973, War with Israel on Sunday, by visiting the Unknown Soldier monument in memory of soldiers who lost their lives in the war.

A limestone relief dating back to the New Kingdom period, between the 16th and 11th centuries BC, was recovered Sunday from an auction hall in London after two weeks of negotiations.

High-resolution scans suggest the tomb of Ancient Egypt's boy-king Tutankhamun contains passages to two hidden chambers, including what one British archaeologist believes is the last resting place of Queen Nefertiti.

The Egyptian pound was held steady by the central bank which sold $37.8 million at a cut-off price of 7.7301 pounds per dollar on Thursday, but weakened on the parallel market.

The United States has approved the sale of an undisclosed number of Hellfire missiles to Egypt as part of a US$357.8 million foreign defense sale that also includes Iraq, Tunisia, Indonesia and Pakistan, according to Defence Web.

“If you try forcing change from outside in a country that has been under complete pressure for 60 to 70 years, it won’t work. You cannot move into democracy overnight, democracy is not instant coffee,” Former Vice President of Egypt Mohamed ElBaradei said in a speech to Illinois State University students on Wednesday.

Emad Gad, spokesperson for the “For the Love of Egypt” electoral list, said in an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm that the government does not endorse or support the list.

Egypt aims to generate around LE98.5 billion (US$12.58 billion) of additional revenue this financial year by launching economic legislation and financial reforms, Finance Minister Hany Qadry Dimian said on Tuesday.