We are not going to budge; we are not negotiating for a interests agenda. We are demanding a better healthcare set-up, both for doctors and for patients. This is not something to give up on,” said Amr El-Shoura, member of the Doctor's Syndicate council and coordinator of an on-and-off strike of medical workers, which includes along with doctors, dentists and pharmacists.

Amr Moussa, head of the 50-member committee that was tasked with amending 2012 constitution, said we absolutely should stop at the word of ‘immunization’ of the High Elections Commission’s decisions and that he would have used another wording for it, unless the Supreme Constitutional Court had decreed constitutionality of the immunization.

Secretary General of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) Azza al-Ashmawy expressed deep appreciation for interim President Adly Mansour on Thursday, as he decided to establish governmental committees for child protection.

The Egyptian cabinet issued a press statement on Saturday evening to announce it would take all necessary measures to counter terrorism.

Leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi says he doubts Egypt’s army chief will bring democracy if elected, citing alleged rights abuses since he toppled the country’s first democratically chosen leader.

Egypt's foreign affairs ministry has summoned the envoys of European countries that sent a joint statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday condemning Egypt's recent crackdown on demonstrators and political dissent.

Masked gunmen opened fire on an army bus in Cairo on Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding three in a rare attack on troops in the Egyptian capital, security officials and a military spokesman said.

Egypt's Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel-Muttalib and his accompanying delegation returned home Tuesday from Addis Ababa, where talks on Ethiopia's multi-billion dollar hydroelectric dam project seem to have hit snags, again.

Egypt's Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding said on Thursday its 2013 profit after tax dropped by 69.5 percent compared with a year earlier to 1.12 billion Egyptian pounds.

Egypt's President, Adli Mansour, has said that freedom of opinion and expression is guaranteed in all forms of art.

Former Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Samy Anan announced that he will not run in the upcoming presidential elections during a Thursday press conference.

A home-made bomb exploded in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, but no one was hurt, security sources and the website of state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said.

Egypt’s former chief of the army staff, Sami Anan, a likely contender in the upcoming presidential elections, has said he survived an attempt on his life in Cairo.

A passionate, albeit grammatically incorrect, rant against US President Barack Obama has gone viral on social media.

The legal and constitutional adviser to Egypt's Interim Presidency said Wednesday that the recently-approved law regulating presidential elections could be amended.

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.