An Egyptian court has rejected an appeal by an Egyptian author against a two-year prison sentence he was given on obscenity charges.

Twelve years after the small landlocked country of Rwanda witnessed one of the most gruesome genocides in history, it has repositioned itself as one of the most developed countries in Africa. Dozens of African leaders concluded their week-long meetings in the capital Kigali for the 27th African Union summit.

Egyptian prosecutors renewed on Monday the detention of renowned human rights lawyer Malek Adly for 15 days pending investigations on charges of attempting to overthrow the regime.

A British security committee started inspections on Monday of security measures at Cairo International Airport.

A Cairo criminal court accepted on Monday a prosecution appeal against a motion to release seven low-ranking policemen pending trial for inciting their colleagues to strike.

US navy commander Kevin M. Donegan arrived in Cairo Sunday for an official visit that will include meetings with a number of senior Egyptian officials.

UK Export Finance, the UK's export credit agency, is committed to funding trade deals with Egypt worth up to GBP 500 million, and has GBP 2.5 billion of financing available for projects in Egypt, according to a British embassy press release on Sunday.

On Sunday, Cairo International Airport stood by to receive David Govrin, Israel’s new ambassador to Egypt, on an Air Sinai flight from Tel Aviv, arriving in the capital to take up his position. Last April, Israel’s cabinet voted to assign David Govrin as the new ambassador to Egypt, succeeding former ambassador, Haim Koren.

The word "fire" is heard on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir 804 before the plane crashed into the Mediterranean in May, an Egyptian-led investigative committee said Saturday.

State airline EgyptAir resumed flights on Sunday to Istanbul, the company said in a statement, following a one-day halt after an overnight coup attempt in Turkey.

Italy has been advised to stop the escalation against Egypt over the death of Italian student Guilio Regeni, the chief of the Egyptian Parliament’s foreign affairs committee said Sunday.

Cairo is ready to cooperate with any state, including Turkey, given it does not interfere in Egyptian domestic affairs, Egyptian speaker of parliament Ali Abdel-Al told Sputink news during an official visit to Russia.

TV host Amr Adib has ended his 20-year association with the Orbit television channel, saying that he will not renew his contract, which ended recently.

A six-story building collapsed on Syria Street, west of Shubra al-Kheima district, on Wednesday evening. There were no reported deaths resulting from the collapse, with all residents evacuating shortly before the building came down.

EgyptAir announced on Wednesday the renewal of cooperation with aircraft maker Boeing by purchasing nine of the latest 737 aircraft with a total value of about US$864 million (almost LE9 billion).

The Agriculture Ministry has issued a final rejection to a shipment of wheat from the US, saying that it has levels of ergot fungus that breach international standards.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shouky held talks Wednesday with African counterparts on the conflict in South Sudan and relations between Nile Basin countries as part of his current visit to Rwanda.

Kamal Amer, head of the Egyptian parliament's Defence ‎and National Security Committee, told reporters that ‎representatives from various state bodies will attend a high-level parliamentary ‎meeting on Monday “upon ‎the orders of speaker Ali Abdel-Al and in response ‎to Italy's decision not to supply Egypt with some ‎spare parts for F-16 fighter planes.”

Egypt’s stocks rebounded on Wednesday in a trading session that saw Arab investors as net buyers. The market’s benchmark EGX30 rose 1.37 percent to 7,559 points with almost all heavyweight shares registering gains. Out of 159 stocks listed for the day, 91 increased and 31 declined. The daily turnover registered at EGP 653.5 million, less than trading over the last three sessions.

Egypt's police have been implicated in an "unprecedented spike" in enforced disappearances since early 2015 aimed at quashing dissent, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday, while Cairo responded with a strongly worded statement accusing the organization of bias and prejudice.

Harsh prison verdicts, prolonged remands, security violence, unfounded criminal charges, and other means of oppressing freedom of expression are prevalent in Egypt, promoted by Egypt’s controversial Protest Law of November 2013.