The Syrian conflict takes centre stage at an Arab summit starting Tuesday in Kuwait, where a regional rift over Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has been kept off the agenda.

Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazou said the incident of raping a British tourist dates back to 6 March and that he was not informed about it until Sunday.

Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi’s campaign spokesperson Amr Badr said there is a difference between objective criticism and “smear campaigns,” and they will not tolerate the latter.

Trade balance deficit reached LE18.04 billion in December 2013, compared to LE22.95 billion in December 2012, marking 21.4 percent decrease.

Ongoing debate between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project is heightening concern over the future of relations between the two countries.

The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters announced Monday that it would decide whether to categorise the Sinai militant group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis as a terrorist organisation on April 14.

Archeologists in the historic city of Luxor, Egypt have unveiled two massive ancient statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III to the public.

The trial of 20 Al-Jazeera journalists accused of aiding or joining the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood was adjourned for a third time on Monday, with the defendants' request for bail denied by the court.

Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour travelled to Kuwait on Monday ahead of the Arab League summit scheduled to take place in the Gulf state over the next two days.

Military Spokesperson Ahmed Mohamed Ali called for reporting against whoever abuses the armed forces or name of Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, defense minister, within electoral campaigns for presidency.

North Cairo Criminal Court ordered Sunday for an “experts committee” to be formed to re-examine and evaluate the assets of former President Hosni Mubarak’s chief of staff Zakaria Azmi, who is being tried on charges of corruption and illicit profiteering, reported Youm7.

Amr Moussa, chief of the 50-member constitutional panel that was tasked with amending 2012 constitution, said Defense Minister Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's decision to run for presidency has been made and that they have agreed on the necessity of declaring the main features of the electoral platform to the public.

Mohamed Saftawy, president of the Independent Post Union, said strikes at post offices nationwide exceeded 90 percent of post workers. “We received several complaints that our employees were assaulted by the public for closing the offices,” he said, adding that the Cairo and Giza offices also joined the strike.

Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said on Sunday that Egypt was facing an arms supply problem and was considering importing weapons from Russia.

A Cairo criminal court on Sunday ordered the release on bail of activists Alaa Abdel-Fattah and Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, currently on trial on charges of organising an illegal protest.

Egyptian Army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi may not look like a model democrat, but foreign and local businessmen believe he can deliver stability to open up investment opportunities in the most populous Arab nation.

Egypt granted citizenship Wednesday to one of its most renowned filmmakers, Mohamed Khan, a British national born to an Egyptian mother and a Pakistani father, the president's office said.

Students at Cairo University Engineering Faculty began a strike on Thursday in protest against the previous day's violence on campus in which security forces clashed with pro-Muslim Brotherhood student groups, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.

Ali Awad, Advisor to Interim President for Constitutional Affairs, said that the delay in opening the door for presidential hopefuls to submit their application was due to a particular security concern at the headquarters of the High Elections Commission which prevented its members from convening.

Interim President Adly Mansour has sent a report of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) to the minister of justice, asking him to investigate police violations during the forcible dispersal of the Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in last August, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

According to a statement released on Monday, The Forum of Independent Human Rights Organisations (FIHRO), which represents 19 Egyptian human rights groups, presented a report on the state of human rights in Egypt to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.