Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi slammed "doubters" in a speech given on the occasion of the first anniversary of the inauguration of the New Suez Canal in Ismailia governorate Saturday, El-Sisi assured that the project has been a success.

Port Said Criminal Court ordered Sunday the release of five defendants, upheld the sentence against one defendant, and sentenced another defendant to three years in prison, issuing a verdict concerning seven defendants out of 36 in the retrial of the case known as the "Ismailia clashes."

The House of Representatives' constitutional and legal committee annulled on Sunday the membership of MP Ahmed Mortada Mansour, after a court decision in July ruled that his competitor Amr El-Shobaki is the legitimate winner of the parliamentary elections in Dokki district in the 2015, Aswat Masryia reported.

Four civilians were killed in North Sinai's El-Arish after an improvised explosive device planted in a garbage bag detonated late Friday in the vicinity of a police station, state owned MENA agency reported.

Addis Ababa will not allow Egypt and its people to suffer from negative effects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia’s parliament speaker Abadula Gemeda assured an Egyptian MP during a Pan-African Parliament meeting in South Africa’s Johannesburg.

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

President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi led mourners including a number of Egyptian and dignitaries during the military funeral of winner Egyptian chemist and Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail Sunday morning at the El-Mosheer Tantawy mosque in New Cairo.

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.‎