For the seventh day, the Coptic Child Stephen Hani Zaki, was not released since he was kidnapped at gun point in Nag Hammadi while he was walking with his mother in the street.

Tariq al-Zomor, Chairman of the Building and Development Islamist party called Friday on all Islamist political factions to “stand behind the umbrella of the January 25 Revolution and accept their opponents.”

The headquarters of Egypt’s former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), badly damaged when it was set ablaze during the January 25 Revolution, will be demolished within a month, sources in the Cairo governorate said Saturday.

Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Saturday 14 defendants in absentia to life in prison for illegal assembly, attempted murder, murder of policemen and illegal possession of weapons.

A Coptic child called Anthonious Hani, 8 years old, was kidnapped today at Nag Hamadi.

Several labor and freedom groups have expressed their refusal of arbitrary actions committed against workers, as well as attempts to strip them of the right to protest, strike and organize sit-ins.

Social Democratic Egyptian Party Chief Mohamed Abul Ghar said reports submitted by security services to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over political parties and coming parliamentary elections are contradictory.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi arrived Saturday in Saudi capital Riyadh, three days after a major royal shakeup in the oil-rich kingdom.

The Green Eagles Ultras, a group of Al-Masry Club football fans, staged a protest Friday evening to support defendants in the Port Said Stadium massacre.

Egypt bid for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is centred on "reforming the United Nations and expanding the Security Council to become more democratic and representative of developing countries," Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman said Saturday.

The Qustul Land Port between Sudan and Egypt will officially open Thursday, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab announced Saturday.

Copts in Miana village, Megaga, Minya, are angry after police prevented them once again from conducting their prayers at the church of St. Joseph after they allowed them couple of days ago.

Egypt signed with the World Bank Friday a $400 million agreement for a project set to benefit 1.5 million poor Egyptian families.

The long-awaited re-amendment of the electoral constituencies law, the last obstacle in the way of Egypt's long-delayed parliamentary polls, was approved by the cabinet on 14 April.

Pope Francis described the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Turks as the “first genocide of the 20th century” on Sunday, touching off a diplomatic furor with Turkey and entering into a tense historical debate with wider implications for the Vatican’s relations with Islam.

Alaa and Gamal Mubarak made their first public appearance on Friday since their release late January, pending a retrial over charges of misusing public funds.

An Egyptian court has confirmed the death sentence on Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 13 others for planning attacks against the state.

Father Daniel Tayeb, priest of St. George Church in Qena of the Coptic Catholic, said that building the church stopped 22 years ago in spite of obtaining the due permits from the presidency and the interior ministry.

A bomb killed a police officer and wounded two civilians at a police booth on a main bridge over an affluent island in the Nile on Sunday, raising new fears that militants were targeting even the most secure parts of Egypt’s capital.

Spiegel online German magazine said that 8 people have attacked two Egyptians aged 21 and 32 years old near the refugee housing.

Father Ezekiel Khalil, priest of Khattara village, said that the church of St. Paul and St. Anthony in the village was closed down in 1960 by the fanatics.