Egypt's presidential election commission on Sunday cleared resigned defense minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and former presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi - the only two candidates - to contest the May presidential elections.

Bahrain is hosting a multinational air force training exercise, in which Egypt will participate for the first time, Bahrain's official news agency reported.

An Egyptian court on Monday banned a pro-democracy movement that helped ignite the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, judicial sources and the website of the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said.

Nine people died and 11 were injured in a road accident on Sunday in Egypt's Fayoum governorate, 130 km southwest of Cairo, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) issued a Sunday statement on its official Facebook page, calling for a boycott of the upcoming presidential elections, saying they “refuse to legitimize such a sham process.”

Egypt's presidential elections commission announced in a press conference on Sunday that the two official candidates who will contest the upcoming presidential elections are former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi.

The Cairo Criminal Court resumed on Sunday the retrial of toppled President Hosni Mubarak, his sons Alaa and Gamal, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, six former top deputies and businessman Hussein Salem over killing protesters during the 2011 revolution and financial corruption.

Al-Masreyeen Al-Ahrrar Party announced in a statement on Sunday its support for ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for Egypt's upcoming presidential elections.

Egypt-focused gold miner Centamin said a new law could result in the dismissal of a legal case which has put the licence of its only operating mine in jeopardy, boosting its shares by as much as 15 percent on Thursday.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy that Washington's military aid to his country could resume, partly due to Cairo's upholding of its peace treaty with Israel, the newspaper Daily News Egypt reported on Wednesday.

When French Egyptologist Olivier Perdu saw a fragment of a pharaonic statue on display in a Brussels gallery last year, he assumed it was a twin of an ancient masterpiece he had examined in Egypt a quarter of a century earlier.

A 4-year old girl was allegedly raped by her mother’s Egyptian boyfriend, a Sri Lankan daily reported.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has invited Egypt for another round of tripartite talks with Sudan in order to implement recommendations given by an international committee over the construction of its hydroelectric dam on the Nile, state-run news agency MENA reported.

A senior Egyptian police officer has been killed by a bomb blast in the capital, Cairo, security officials say.

Egyptian interim President Adly Mansour has laid a wreath at a war memorial in Cairo as part of commemorations for Sinai Liberation Day.

US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel called his Egyptian counterpart Col. Gen. Sedki Sobhy Tuesday to inform him that the Congress would soon be negotiating to restore financial aid.

Tuesday 22 April marked the launch reception of this year’s Spring Festival, biennially organised by Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy (Culture Resource). The reception was held in Cairo’s Swiss Club and attended by members of the press as well as various artists, culture enthusiasts and professionals.

Egypt's foreign minister Nabil Fahmy was travelling to the United States on Wednesday, his ministry said, a day after Washington decided to provide Cairo with 10 Apache military helicopters.

Egypt plans to double the price of natural gas piped into some homes and businesses from next month, but the move will trim its huge fuel subsidy bill only slightly because few premises are connected to the gas network.

American Muslim Society and Egyptian Americans demand release of U.S. citizen held behind bars in Egypt for "supporting" the government of the country's toppled leader, Morsi.

Two journalists sustained gunshot injuries while covering the use of violence by police to disperse a demonstration at Cairo University on 14 April in support of deposed President Mohamed Morsi. A student was killed in the ensuing clashes.