Renowned feminist figure, Nawal Al-Saadawi, said on Saturday that poverty is not the exclusive problem women confront, their real problems lie in not being aware of their entitlement to rights.

Ousted President Hosni Mubarak will not leave the prison cell even if a court decision releasing him is issued, an official source at the Egyptian prosecution told a local newspaper.

CAIRO, April 15 (Reuters) - A law that will allow Egypt's Islamist-led state to issue Islamic bonds contravenes the sharia in numerous ways, according to a panel of senior Muslim clerics whose objections are likely to hold up ratification of the legislation.

Prosecutors tasked with investigating the killing and injuring of protesters during Egypt's revolution have provided the court retrying former president Hosni Mubarak with 700 pages of new evidence and testimonies, prosecution spokesperson Mahmoud El-Hefnawi said on Saturday.

Dozens of villagers from Qarnat Marai in Luxor closed on Sunday the Valley of the Queens and Deir al-Madina, both of which are the sites of pharaonic tombs, to protest local officials' failure to provide them with land promised in compensation for being evacuated from their homes for archaeological excavations.

The April 6 Youth Movement will protest on Monday outside the New Cairo courthouse where the Fifth District prosecution will decide whether to renew the detention of fellow members.

Popular Current leader Hamdeen Sabbahi has told an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation that he opposes the fund's loan to Egypt if it harms the poor by eliminating subsidies, raising prices and reducing salaries.

The nation's economic crisis poses a threat to basic nutrition for its population of 84 million people, as the poorest spend more than half their income on food, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.

In its evening session on Wednesday, the Shura Council passed the two laws on the House of Representatives and the exercise of political rights, but the assembly’s speaker, Ahmed Fahmy, postponed their final approval until Thursday’s session.

A number of former interior ministry officials were banned from travel on Wednesday after being accused of illegally acquiring some LE1.6 billion (roughly $240.5 million) worth of ministry funds, Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website reported.

The Dokki Misdemeanors Court issued its verdict today acquitting Prime Minister Hesham Qandil from liability and impeachment in light of a lawsuit filed by workers at the Tanta Flax and Oils Company, accusing him of failing to uphold an administrative court ruling issued in September 2011 — ruling that the privatized company should be returned to the public sector.

Qatar will extend $3 billion to Egypt in the coming days, the Qatari prime minister announced on Wednesday in comments reported by state news agency MENA.

April 6 Youth Movement held a vigil outside the Cairo Security Directorate on Wednesday evening, demanding the release of political detainees, Ingy Hamdy, the movement’s spokesperson, posted on social media.

A sudden flurry of activity around former President Hosni Mubarak’s Sharm el-Sheikh home amounts to nothring more than “inventory work and cleaning,” assured a senior security source in South Sinai on Thursday.

Public Prosecutor Talaat Abdallah received a report from a medical committee that he ordered be formed to decide whether ousted President Hosni Mubarak could return to Tora prison after being back transferred to Maadi military hospital due to health issues.

Efforts to foster Iranian tourism to Egypt have not been cancelled, Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazou said Wednesday morning.

Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Sidqy Sobhy said that the Libyan and Egyptian armed forces would cooperate in all fields at a press conference with his Libyan counterpart on Wednesday.

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has ordered the withdrawal of legal complaints filed by the presidency against journalists, in a move that appeared aimed at fending off accusations of a crackdown on dissent by the Islamist-led authorities.

The Egyptian army's chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Sedki Sobhi, has arrived in Tripoli for talks with his Libyan counterpart, Youssef Al-Manqoush.

Egyptian train services are operating at 'eighty percent' capacity on Tuesday and are expected to be back to normal by the end of the day, Nagwa Albeir, Egypt's Railway Authority spokeswoman, has told Ahram Online.

Deputy Freedom and Justice Party chairman Essam al-Erian has accused leading opposition figure and former UN International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei of treason for allegedly approving the US invasion of Iraq.