Egypt’s central bank said it had suspended its Tuesday deposit auction and would hold a repurchase agreement (repo) auction in its place, a move bankers said was designed to give some banks access to more liquidity.

A protest by artists outside the culture ministry in Cairo’s Zamalek district was met by angry opposition from groups of Islamists on Tuesday

The Egyptian military denied on Tuesday claims that it had imported arms from Israel between 2008 and 2012.

The Giza Criminal Court has ordered the release of Alaa and Gamal Mubarak in a case of alleged stock market manipulation.

Clashes broke out between students and security guards at Helwan University on Monday night.

Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters on Monday staged demonstrations outside the Cairo Convention Centre in the capital's Heliopolis district to voice support for President Mohamed Morsi.

The Egyptian government is providing petrol stations nationwide with an additional 16,500 tonnes per day of different types of petrol in an effort to counter ongoing shortages, Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website reported on Sunday.

Assem Abdel-Maged, a leading member of Egypt's ultra-conservative Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya movement, asserted on Sunday that the anti-government 'Rebel' (Tamarod) campaign planned to kill its own protesters during planned 30 June rallies in hopes of turning public opinion against President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood group from which he hails.

The number of detainees imprisoned since President Mohamed Morsi assumed power last June has now surpassed 3430, according to Zizo Abdo, member of 6 April Youth Movement.

The anti-Morsi opposition stated on Sunday that it seeks to hold a peaceful protest on June 30 and demanded protection against Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood supporters and other Islamist groups, which have threatened violence against the protesters, according to a report on the Egyptian website Ahram Online on Monday.

In a May 9 memo publicized last week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrote that the American government will continue to provide its annual $1.3 billion military aid package to the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohamed Morsi in Egypt.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi will give a speech Monday evening on the ongoing row with Ethiopia, which lately started diverting the course of the Blue Nile for its Renaissance Dam project, sources told Ahram Online.

published a statement on its Facebook page Sunday announcing that it would "reconsider" its membership in the opposition National Salvation Front (NSF) umbrella group at its upcoming central committee meeting.

“Corruption exists in every institution in the country, but that is not the way to fight it,” said protesting artist Olfat Emam, referring to recent decisions and dismissals made by Minister of Culture Alaa Abdel Aziz.

Egypt received 1.1 million tourists in April 2013, 5.2 percent more than the 1 million it received in the same period last year, but still less than April 2010 when 1.2 million visited the country, state statistics agency CAPMAS reported on Sunday.

There is no room for objection to rulings from the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC), said Major General Mamdouh Shahin, Assistant Minister of Defence.

Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil on Saturday urged all political forces to lift any political cover for the "advocates of violence".

A Cairo court on Saturday adjourned the retrial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, Gamal and Alaa as well as his Interior Minister Habib el-Adli and his aides to Monday, the presiding judge said.

A Wednesday meeting between leading strategist of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat El-Shater and opposition leader Amr Moussa has put the latter under fire. The dinner meeting was mediated by Ayman Nour, founder of the liberal Ghad El-Thawra party, and took place at his house. Saad El-Katatni, head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), was also invited but did not attend.

Bolstered by recent injections of foreign aid, Egypt's net international reserves rose for the second consecutive month to reach $16.04 billion by the end of May, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced Thursday.

The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said it has recalled Egyptian Ambassador Mohamed Idrees for clarifications on "threats" that members of political powers made during a meeting with President Mohamed Morsy on Monday.