Egypt’s Grand Mufti has said while homosexuality is not accepted in Islam, gay people are not second-class humans.

The United Nations Security Council failed on Saturday to condemn the violence and unrest in Turkey after Egypt objected to a statement that called on all parties to "respect the democratically elected government of Turkey," diplomats said.

The Egyptian parliament voted on Monday in favor of approving a new civil service law and will be referred to the State Council to be revised in constitutional and legislative terms, parliament speaker Ali Abdel-Al said.

With over 40 events spanning more than six weeks, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's International Summer Festival will bring Egyptian, regional and international performers to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

Egypt will celebrate Eid Al-Adha, the second of two major religious holidays celebrated by Muslims around the world after Eid Al-Fitr, on 11 September, Egypt’s Astronomical and Geophysics Institute said on Tuesday.

Sudan's President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir said there is no discord between his country and Egypt regarding their respective shares of Nile water and that the relationship between the two countries is "excellent."

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tariq Al-Mulla signed Tuesday two new agreements for oil and gas exploration in Upper Egypt’s El Baraka field of Aswan, Youm7 reported the Ministry’s statement.

Egyptian parliamentarians are signing a draft law criminalizes Armenian Genocide during the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. The Signature came in light of Egypt’s actions against Turkey as two countries have strained relations since the ouster of former President Morsi, Turkey’s ally.

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said during an hour of questions in the Knesset that Egypt is the most important and serious ally we have in the Middle East and among Arab states.

Egypt's Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy and the country's public prosecutor Nabil Sadek flew to Moscow on Tuesday to provide Russian officials with the latest findings on Cairo's investigation into the crash of a Russian airliner in Sinai last October.

An explosion hit an armoured personnel carrier injuring three policemen in North Sinai's Arish on Monday, Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

Informed sources disclosed Monday that a five-member British parliamentary delegation will visit Egypt between 25 and 30 July to discuss a number of security and economic issues.

Egypt's presidential office denied rumors on Monday that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is not attending the Arab League summit in Mauritania this week due to a suspected assassination plot.

Arabs should work together to overcome intra-group conflicts and bolster Arabic unity to defeat terrorism and international interference in Arab domestic affairs, Egypt’s PM Sherif Ismail said in a speech on behalf of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott.

Egypt's top-scoring high school student for scientific subjects in this year's thanaweya amma exams has called for changes to the way subjects are taught and tested in the Egyptian high school system.

Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail arrived in Mauritania to participate in the Arab League Summit that will be held for the first time in the country’s capital of Nouakchott, state owned MENA agency reported.

Egypt will receive $1 billion in grants and investments from Saudi Arabia within the coming few days, Youm7 reported Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr Monday.

Egyptians ranked as the second top Arab investors in Dubai’s Real Estate Market with an amount of AED 1.37 billion during the first half of 2016, a statement by Dubai’s Land Department (DLD) announced.

A plot to assassinate Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi was the major reason for the decision to cancel the presidential participation in the Arab Summit scheduled to be held in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, sources revealed to Youm7.

Sailors from the Egyptian navy rescued 14 Egyptian tourists off the coast of Hurghada on Sunday after it began to take on water amid poor weather conditions.