Amr Badr, the general coordinator for the Revolution’s Candidate campaign that is supporting Hamdeen Sabbahi for president, said on Tuesday that the Sabbahi presidential campaign is almost prepared.

Since the issuance of the decision to apply minimum wage in Dec. 31, 2013, there has been a major crisis in applying the law, leading to the eruption of a number of strikes in critical industries and professions throughout Egypt.

Interim President Adly Mansour accepted the resignation of Hazem al-Beblawy’s government, which was submitted earlier Monday.

Major General Ibrahim Abdel Aaty, the doctor heading the team that invented the device, which supposedly cures patients of AIDS and Hepatitis C virus, said he was offered US$2 billion to sell it abroad but he refused.

Ibrahim Mehleb has been asked to form a new government by interim President Adly Mansour, he told Al-Ahram Arabic news website on Tuesday.

South Africa seeks to declare the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group during the next few days, through cooperating with the Egyptian government to delineate the required procedures, said the South African Minister of State Security Siyabonga Cwele Monday.

Cairo Governor Galal El-Saeed said the city’s authorities will provide 1,200 minibuses as of early Tuesday morning and until the public transportation workers end their strike.

Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi has unexpectedly announced the resignation of his government.

Saudi authorities released on Monday 61 Egyptian fishermen who were held in the kingdom since Friday for entering its territorial waters on the Red Sea without permits.

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information released a statement Monday condemning the referral of two journalists to a Cairo military court.

Labour leaders at Mahalla Textile Company set several demands to suspend their strike and gave the government 60 days to respond to these demands.

An Egyptian court ordered on Monday that university guards return to work, state television said. The cabinet decided in October to allow police forces to be deployed outside of universities to search those entering.

Masked gunmen shot National Security officer Major Mohamed Eid Saturday as he was on his way to his car. Eid was rushed to a hospital but died from his injuries shortly thereafter.

Twice a year at the temple in Abu Simbel, just after sunrise, the rays of the sun illuminate the statues of Ramses, Ra and Amun in the central chamber just after sunrise. The likeness of Ptah, the god of darkness, remains in the shade. The occurrences take place on22 October, the birthday of Ramses, and 22 February, when he ascended to the throne. After the temple was moved to higher ground due to the expected flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan Dam, the positioning was calculated precisely to ensure the Sun Festival could still take place.

The Egyptian General Consul to Jeddah Adel al-Alfy said on Saturday that all possible efforts are being made through diplomatic channels to obtain the release of Egyptian sailors held in Saudi Arabia.

Sixty-three people have died from the H1N1 virus in Egypt since December, the health ministry said on Sunday.

International tourism companies have urged holiday-makers in Egypt to remain in their hotels if they are already in the northern Sinai region of the country.

The British Foreign Ministry issued a statement Wednesday advising its nationals not to travel to South Sinai except for urgent matters and except for the areas of Sharm el Maya, Hadaba, Naama Bay, Sharks Bay and Nabq, affiliated with Sharm al-Sheikh.

A five-member US congressional delegation arrived in Egypt on Wednesday to hold talks with top Egyptian government officials, days after discussions by another congressional team concluded in Cairo.

National Salvation Front spokesperson Waheed Abdel Megeed told Youm7 Wednesday that the front’s support to presidential candidates depends on their commitment to the goals of the January 25 Revolution.

Tensions are rising between the medical syndicates and the Ministry of Health as the Doctors and Pharmacists Syndicates have entered their third week of partial strike across the country, as per the Syndicates’ General Assembly agreement to organize partial strikes every Monday and Wednesday during February, with a list of demands they claim the ministry refuses to respond to.