European Union of Coptic Organization for Human Rights EUCOHR demanded the abolition of contempt of religion law after Egyptian court has sentenced four Coptic Christian children to five years in prison on charges of defamation of religions and insulting Islamic sanctities.

Dozens of Cairo taxi drivers have cut off the road outside the State Council Saturday in protest against what they called “unfair competition” with the application-based taxi service operators Uber and Careem, Youm7 reported.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has defended US aid to Egypt, saying the North African nation is of great strategic importance to the United States, especially in light of the various conflicts ongoing in the Middle East.

When Egypt's parliament holds a plenary session on Sunday, colourful MP Tawfik Okasha will have to face the music, having scandalised his colleagues by inviting the Israeli ambassador to dinner.

St. Mary Church in Luxor celebrates 107th anniversary for its inauguration on February 25th. During his visit to the church last month, Pope Tawadros congratulated the church on her 107 anniversary.

A Cairo criminal court has sentenced the novelist Ahmed Naji to two years in prison for violating public morals after a passage from his novel containing material of a sexual nature was published, according to the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression.

Doctors have gathered Saturday in protest against not holding police officers accountable over assaulting Matariya hospital doctors last month.

Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar has said that his ministry’s policy is to exclude personnel who are unaware of their job responsibilities, adding that it is “unfair that [actions by] an irresponsible minority causes the stigmatizing of the national police service.”

Former United Nations secretary-general and Egyptian diplomat Boutrous Boutrous Ghaly died in a Giza hospital on Tuesday at the age of 94.

Minister of Immigration and Egyptian Expatriate Affairs, Nabila Makram headed for New York Saturday in a two-day visit where she will meet with representatives of the Egyptian community in the U.S., Al Ahram reported.

Prosecutors have refused to disclose the content of the autopsy report on murdered Italian PhD candidate Giulio Regeni, whose dead body was found by the Cairo-Alexandria desert road on February 3.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared the transfer of legislative powers to parliament. During his speech before parliament on Saturday, Sisi said Egypt had accomplished the political roadmap and that the country had been saved from those who were working for their own interests.

The Egyptian embassy in Berlin will receive on Tuesday a 2,700 year-old statue that was seized in a Germany-based auction house last year, state news agency MENA reported Saturday.

The occupancy rates in Luxor hotels rose to 64 percent, Luxor tourism police announced Thursday. The increase comes in conjunction with the mid-school year vacation, which will extend until mid-February. The total number of guests in Luxor hotels stands at 2,505, including 523 foreigners and 1,982 Egyptians. The occupancy rate by foreigners stands at 13 percent, compared to 51 percent by Egyptians, according to the statistics of the Luxor Tourism and Antiquities Police Department.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered on Saturday that EGP 1 billion from the Long Live Egypt Fund be assigned to build 100,000 affordable housing units.

The body of an Italian graduate student who disappeared last month has been found with multiple stab wounds, cigarette burns and other signs of torture and a "slow death" on a roadside on the outskirts of Cairo, an Egyptian prosecutor said Thursday. Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University PhD candidate who had been researching labor rights in Egypt, went missing on Jan. 25, the fifth anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. His body was found Wednesday.

Plans to build churches in Kuwait have been rejected by MPs because they "contradict Islamic Sharia law". Sheikh Sabah al Khalid al Sabah is Kuwait's Emir and official leader The Gulf country's government, which is unelected and seperate from the elected MPs in parliament, initially accepted the church building proposals and allocated a number of sites for construction.

An exhibition, featuring ancient Egyptian artifacts from gallery collections around the UK, has kicked off Saturday at the Two Temple Place in central London.

Sixteen rights groups and 45 public figures have called for the immediate release of writer and researcher Hisham Gaafar, chairman of Mada Foundation NGO, decrying his arrest which has exceeded 100 days.

Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the 25 January Revolution, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called on Egyptians to “help achieve reform, and protect the nation against terrorism;” the same message was directed to Tunisians who took to the streets against unemployment and marginalizing.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi called on Egyptians to take care of the security, stability and the prosperity of their country, in a Saturday speech marking Egypt's upcoming National Police Day.