Co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement Ahmed Maher has called for Egypt’s interior minister to be dismissed and tried for what he described as the minister’s failure to secure citizens and his continued oppression of peaceful demonstrators.

On Saturday, the April 6 Youth Movement, a leading force behind the 2011 revolution and a powerful actor on the political scene since, commemorated the fifth anniversary of a historic strike in the city of Mahalla with anti-government protests in Cairo and a number of other Egyptian governorates.

Egypt's railway workers started a strike on Sunday, bringing train movement across the country to an almost complete halt.

Egypt's top judges have called for Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdullah to resign and return to the judicial bench

Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah ordered the detainment of former President Hosni Mubarak for 15 days pending investigations conducted by the State Security Prosecution on charges of seizing and facilitating the seizure of public money.

A Cairo criminal court on Sunday acquitted Mubarak-era minister Ahmed Shafiq, runner-up in last year's presidential elections, of charges that he had embezzled and squandered public funds while serving as civil aviation minister before the 2011 revolution.

Cairo, Egypt - As a former policeman turned politician and a likely ally of Egypt's president, Tamer Meky has harsh words about the security problems in the Arab world's most populous country.

Constitution Party founder and National Salvation Front (NSF) leader Mohamed ElBaradei has said the government and prosecutor-general should step down for the sake of the country.

Egypt's Net International Reserves (NIR) fell by around $84 million in March to $13,424 billion, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Thursday.

A Cairo Security Directorate official said the majority of files burned in a fire at the South Cairo Court on Thursday morning in the Bab al-Khalq neighborhood were related to cases regarding events in Tahrir Square following the revolution and regarding the prosecution of public funds.

Political activist and former parliamentary candidate Gamila Ismail has been appointed organisational secretary of the Constitution Party, the liberal party announced on its official Facebook page Wednesday.

Interpol has refused to issue an international arrest warrant for Ahmed Shafiq, an aide to Egypt's interior minister has said.

KHARTOUM: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi arrives in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday for a visit which Khartoum has termed "historic" but which an analyst said should have come sooner.

State body the General Authority for Investment (GAFI) has warned television channel CBC it will revoke its licence if prominent satirist Bassem Youssef’s weekly show ‘El-Bernameg’ does not comply with the standards of the media free zone, where the channel is based.

Official Justice Ministry statistics issued Tuesday revealed that 113 Egyptians married Syrian women in 2012, and 57 in the first quarter of 2013, totaling 170 marriages.

The internal conflicts facing the liberal Constitution Party escalated on Monday evening when, according to news reports, a group of young members stormed the party’s main headquarters in downtown Cairo and occupied it.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Egypt plans to cut its state wheat imports this year by around 10 percent, with the world's largest grain importer relying instead on its domestic crop and building storage, Egypt's Agriculture minister said on Tuesday.

Commissioned minister and Presidential Spokesman Omar Amer said Wednesday that President Mohamed Morsi "will not meet with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation” visiting Egypt, according to Al-Ahram Arabic-language news website.

The Cairo Court of Cassation on Monday released details of its ruling reversing President Mohamed Morsi's 2012 decision to appoint a new prosecutor-general.

Egypt's April 6 youth movement on Monday slammed the continued detention for an additional 15 days pending investigation of four of its members arrested on Friday while demonstrating outside the interior minister's Cairo residence.

Egypt's central bank said on Monday it intended to reintroduce deposit operations as a way to absorb excess liquidity, starting on Tuesday, in a monetary tightening move that economists said could help fight inflation and support a weakening currency.