Police in Damietta have arrested a terrorist cell on charges of planning for terrorist attacks on Christmas eve. Three members of the cell were arrested with weapons in their possession.

Archbishop Samir Nassar, Archbishop of Damascus of the Maronites, announced the opening of a new Maronite Church in Damascus, in January of 2016.

The Criminal Court in western Tanta sentenced a police officer and lower ranking officer at Tanta police station to life in prison for “torturing a prisoner to death”.

Negotiations between Cairo, Addis Ababa and Khartoum have entered a decisive stage in which the parties must express their final stance concerning the controversy and disagreement caused by Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam, which threatens Egypt’s annual share of the Nile waters. Meetings involving the parties’ foreign affairs and water ministers have intensified, as Ethiopia and Egypt are preparing by finding alternatives that speed up the implementation of the studies should the feud deepen and the negotiations fall through.

A total of 28 convicts, allegedly belong to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, were sentenced Saturday to 5 years in prison over charges of inciting violence and burning electricity transformers in Delta’s Sharqia governorate , Youm7 reported.

Abba Damian, Coptic bishop of Germany, received a check of 34.600 Euros from the German Antiquities Authority for the restoration of St. Anthony and St. Shenouda church in the district of Lichtenberg in Berlin.

As the Muslim Brotherhood began to legally challenge a British government report about the group's connections with radicalism which was released this week, the group's branch in Egypt seems to be suffering from an internal crisis which was largely played out via social media.

Investigations by the Public Funds Prosecution have revealed that Nahed Ashry, the former manpower minister and head of the Workers' Benefits Fund, has been implicated, along with 20 members of the Workers Benefits Fund Board of Directors and representatives of the trade unions, in seizing LE40 million from the fund in the form of bonuses from 2007 to 2014.

Cairo Criminal Court has released Photojournalist Esraa el-Taweel, who has been in remand for more than 160 days over charges of belonging to unlawful organization, Youm7 reported Saturday.

Egyptian Minister of Defence Seqdi Sobhi met Saturday with his Canadian counterpart Harjit Sajjan, the army spokesperson said in a statement on his Facebook page.

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A huge fire broke out at paper factory in Cairo’s Obour city after a 15-year old boy accidently lit a lighter, the factory’s owner Tharwat Thabet told Youm7 Saturday.

A delegation of four Russian military officials arrived in Cairo Saturday to discuss cooperation between both countries, DPA quoted sources as saying.

Two police officers were sentenced on Saturday to five years in jail by an Egyptian court for torturing a lawyer to death in a police station in February, a rare penalty against members of the security forces.

Funeral of brother of Akhmim Bishop to be held on Tuesday after the corpse arrives to Egypt. He died in hospital in America where he was receiving treatment.

Osama al-Ghazali Harb, co-founder of the Egyptian Democratic Front Party, said the Egyptian revolution has failed.

Egypt is looking to increase exports to Russia by 15 percent in the coming year, eyeing an opportunity to take advantage of Russian restrictions on Turkish imports, an Egyptian ministry of trade official said on Saturday.

President Abdel Fatah al Sisi, his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras are scheduled to hold a tripartite summit in Athens Tuesday, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's prosecution ordered Saturday the detention of five low-ranking policemen for four days on accusations of involvment in torturing to death a detainee in Upper Egypt's Luxor, reported state news agency MENA.

Pope Tawadros said his recent visit to Jerusalem was part of his duty to offer condolences following the death of Bishop Abraham, the Archbishop of Jerusalem and the Near East who died on Wednesday.

Exceptional circumstances can never be pretexts for torture,” Egypt’s former vice president Mohamed ElBaradei tweeted after reports emerged about three people dying in Egypt as a result of police brutality over the past week.