Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said that one of the most important challenges facing Egypt now is the high rates of unemployment which hit 13.6 percent.

Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour has called for an urgent meeting on Wednesday with top political figures to reach a consensus on a newly issued law governing the country's upcoming presidential elections.

The Health Ministry announced on Tuesday decline in rate of infection and death of swine flu virus, known as H1N1, in the past few weeks.

Egypt's army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi traveled to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday for joint military training exercises with the Gulf state, a military source told Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.

Cairo University security found a smoke bomb Tuesday in the student residence University City, reported Youm7.

Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabbahi reiterated on Monday his criticism of the newly passed presidential elections law, expressing doubts about the integrity and fairness of the upcoming poll.

There's no sense of law, no hope in the constitution and no value in the courts. We will stay here until they finish their damned roadmap," wrote Alaa Abdel-Fattah from a prison cell, almost a hundred days after he was arrested on charges of illegal protesting.

Giza Criminal Court decided to release the Business steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz on a LE2 million bail after his complaint was accepted against being detained pending investigations, in the case of squandering LE5 billion of public money in Dekhila steel company.

Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi called on political parties and forces to object to the article protecting the Supreme Electoral Commission’s (SEC) decisions from appeal, under the presidential elections law issued by Interim President Adly Mansour on March 8.

Egypt signed technical and economic cooperation agreement with China including non-refundable grant of 150 million Chinese Yuan (US$25 million) to finance development project.

The recently-inaugurated Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab issued a decision on Monday to raise monthly social pension rates.

A group of young people have launched a campaign to improve the speed and lower the cost of using the internet in Egypt.

On Saturday, the Cairo Criminal Court postponed the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak over charges of murdering protesters during the January 2011 uprising that brought down his regime. The court set the date to 22 March to hear defense lawyers case.

Economic experts told Youm7 Saturday the necessity of applying tax escalation, as well as reconciliation with businessmen who are delinquent on their taxes in order to resolve the current financial crisis.

Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabbahi’s official campaign expressed its discontent with a new law issued on Saturday which regulates the upcoming presidential elections.

Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy gave Ethiopia the harshest Egyptian warning to Ethiopia in relation to the dispute over Adis Ababa's dam on the Nile River.

Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab has affirmed that his government will act to ensure holding of free presidential polls.

Egypt is urging Germany to ease its advice against travel to the entire Sinai peninsula after security concerns following the fatal bombing of a tourist bus prompted operators to bring back holidaymakers from the Sharm el-Sheikh Red Sea resort last week.

General Mohamed Refaat, acting head of the General Authority for the Northwest Suez Gulf Economic Zone signed a contract with the Chinese developer TEDA to develop 6 square kilometers in Ain Sokhna.

Global Telecom, the Egypt-based group formerly called Orascom Telecom, has fallen deeper into the red after taking a multi-million dollar impairment charge on its Canadian business following the latter's withdrawal from a 4G spectrum auction.

Attorney General Hisham Barakat is currently reviewing a number of files of imprisoned university students affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in order to examine the possibility of issuing their release during investigations, an informed judicial source in the general prosecution told Youm7.