Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi will visit Pakistan this week on a one-day state visit, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

The Libyan embassy in Cairo on Saturday suspended work for security reasons, days after Egyptians protested in front of the building over the death of an Egyptian Copt in Libya.

Mervat al-Tallawy, head of the National Council for Women (NCW) and the Egyptian official delegation which took part in the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, said the participating countries reached consensus over the final wording of the international agreement to end violence against women after four disputed articles were removed.

The EU should withhold budget support from Egypt unless it makes significant progress with human rights, democracy and the rule of law, say MEPs in a resolution passed on Thursday. They also call for the death sentences on 21 football supporters involved in the Port Said tragedy to be commuted and for a moratorium on all death penalties in Egypt.

The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton delivered a speech to the European Parliament and spoke extensively on the current situation in Egypt. According to Thursday’s press release, Ashton said there are still several issues which Egypt must overcome for the country to get on the right track.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered in Manassa area of Nasr City to show their support of the Egyptian military.

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of Egypt's Constitution Party and a founding member of the National Salvation Front (NSF), is not hoping for a military takeover.

Egypt said on Wednesday it was easing limits on travellers bringing currency in and out of the country and said visiting foreigners could now export more than $10,000 as long as they declared it upon entering.

President Mohamed Morsi is set to meet Thursday with a delegation of Port Said residents at the presidential headquarters in east Cairo's Heliopolis district.

The highest-level inquiry into the deaths of nearly 900 protesters in Egypt's uprising has concluded that police were behind nearly all the killings and used snipers on rooftops overlooking Cairo's Tahrir Square to shoot into the huge crowds.

Dozens of Egyptians staged a sit-in at Libyan border crossings Wednesday night after the Libya’s authorities denied them access to the country.

Fourteen black granite statues of the goddess Sekhmet were found by a German mission during excavations at the temple of Amenhotep III on the west bank of Luxor, said Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Ali.

Anonymous gunmen attacked the Rayesa checkpoint on Arish-Rafah international road in North Sinai on Thursday morning, the 38th such attack since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.

The Egyptian State Lawsuit Authority (ESLA) has appealed a ruling made by the Administrative Court suspending parliamentary elections, which were called for by President Mohamed Morsi in February.

Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry is considering a ban on the sale of alcohol in airport duty-free stores after it received complaints that it goes against the country's Islamic principles, ministry officials and a senior lawmaker said Tuesday.

The Supreme Administrative Court has postponed until 17 March challenges to a Cairo Administrative Court ruling delaying House of Representatives elections.

The Indian government has proposed exporting wheat to Egypt and said it is ready to provide 'generous' financial facilities to encourage Egyptian imports, Egypt's Supply Minister Bassem Ouda told state-owned news agency MENA on Wednesday.

Workers and employees of Egypt’s largest private construction company Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) blockaded Cairo’s Nile-front Corniche on Wednesday, to protest the Egyptian government's ongoing investigation of the company on allegations of tax evasion.

An Interior Ministry official said Thursday that gun use among police and security forces will increase “gradually.”

Ramlet Bulaq residents blocked the Corniche in Cairo next to the Maspero building Tuesday evening, protesting ongoing attempts to bulldoze their homes and demanding a meeting with Cairo Governor Osama Kamal.

An Egyptian independent archaeologist has warned on Friday that Antinoupolis, one of the country’s largest archaeological sites located in Minya, is being “destroyed systematically” by residents amid a complete failure from the government to protect the site.