Egypt's prime minister was due in Qatar on Tuesday for talks with his country's biggest Gulf Arab financial backer as Cairo is negotiating for an IMF loan to help ease a deepening economic crisis.

A man believed to be a bodyguard of Muslim Brotherhood’s second-in-command, Khairat El-Shater, was given a one year sentence for possessing an unlicensed firearm by a Cairo criminal court on Tuesday.

Train drivers strike continued for the second day, in the state-run Egyptian Railway Authority, in protest to “government neglect of their demands for higher salaries.”

Egypt is expected to experience numerous power cuts this summer due to ongoing shortages of fuel, including natural gas and the low-quality diesel fuel mazut.

Mohamed ElBaradei, founder of the Dostour Party, said he would not enter into a dialogue with President Mohamed Morsy’s administration in the absence of an independent Cabinet capable of supervising elections, a credible prime minister, an independent prosecutor general and a committee to draft a new election law.

An opinion poll published Sunday said the percentage of Egyptians who approve of President Mohamed Morsy’s job performance declined to 47 percent, while 37 percent would vote for him if presidential elections were held tomorrow.

Co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement Ahmed Maher has called for Egypt’s interior minister to be dismissed and tried for what he described as the minister’s failure to secure citizens and his continued oppression of peaceful demonstrators.

On Saturday, the April 6 Youth Movement, a leading force behind the 2011 revolution and a powerful actor on the political scene since, commemorated the fifth anniversary of a historic strike in the city of Mahalla with anti-government protests in Cairo and a number of other Egyptian governorates.

Egypt's railway workers started a strike on Sunday, bringing train movement across the country to an almost complete halt.

Egypt's top judges have called for Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdullah to resign and return to the judicial bench

Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah ordered the detainment of former President Hosni Mubarak for 15 days pending investigations conducted by the State Security Prosecution on charges of seizing and facilitating the seizure of public money.

A Cairo criminal court on Sunday acquitted Mubarak-era minister Ahmed Shafiq, runner-up in last year's presidential elections, of charges that he had embezzled and squandered public funds while serving as civil aviation minister before the 2011 revolution.

Cairo, Egypt - As a former policeman turned politician and a likely ally of Egypt's president, Tamer Meky has harsh words about the security problems in the Arab world's most populous country.

Constitution Party founder and National Salvation Front (NSF) leader Mohamed ElBaradei has said the government and prosecutor-general should step down for the sake of the country.

Egypt's Net International Reserves (NIR) fell by around $84 million in March to $13,424 billion, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Thursday.

A Cairo Security Directorate official said the majority of files burned in a fire at the South Cairo Court on Thursday morning in the Bab al-Khalq neighborhood were related to cases regarding events in Tahrir Square following the revolution and regarding the prosecution of public funds.

Political activist and former parliamentary candidate Gamila Ismail has been appointed organisational secretary of the Constitution Party, the liberal party announced on its official Facebook page Wednesday.

Interpol has refused to issue an international arrest warrant for Ahmed Shafiq, an aide to Egypt's interior minister has said.

KHARTOUM: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi arrives in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday for a visit which Khartoum has termed "historic" but which an analyst said should have come sooner.

State body the General Authority for Investment (GAFI) has warned television channel CBC it will revoke its licence if prominent satirist Bassem Youssef’s weekly show ‘El-Bernameg’ does not comply with the standards of the media free zone, where the channel is based.

Official Justice Ministry statistics issued Tuesday revealed that 113 Egyptians married Syrian women in 2012, and 57 in the first quarter of 2013, totaling 170 marriages.