A judicial source close to the investigations of the two police officers, charged with tampering with evidence, told MENA that the defendants were not suspected of having terrorist affiliations.

The Egyptian foreign ministry “welcomes” the designation of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis by the US as a "foreign terrorist organisation" and will legally prove the link between the group and the Muslim Brotherhood, a foreign ministry spokesman, Badr Abdel-Atty, told Ahram Online.

Egypt will soon return to the African Union after implementing the road map, adding that the Union needs Egypt as much as it needs the Union as it is an important country in the region, said African Union Commission Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, on Wednesday evening.

Egypt has introduced a draft law that for the first time defines and includes punishment for sexual harassment amid an alarming increase in attacks on women.

A truce between fighting tribes in Aswan has been extended for a month, Salem Abu Ghazala, deputy head of the supreme council for Arab tribes, announced on Wednesday.

Egyptian security forces have arrested a man who worked for Qatar's Al Jazeera television network and accused him of inciting and taking part in violence, the state news agency MENA said on Wednesday.s

Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Nabil Fahmy hosted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo on Tuesday ahead of an emergency Arab League ministerial meeting on Wednesday, called for by the Palestinians to discuss the faltering negotiation process with the Israelis.

Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, inaugurated the Emirates NBD Egypt head office in Cairo, which also launched its brand during the ceremony.

Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the United States State Department on Wednesday. The State Department said that the designation includes “a prohibition against knowingly providing, or attempting or conspiring to provide, material support or resources to, or engaging in transactions with this organisation, and the freezing of all property and interests in property of the organisation that is in the United States, or come within the United States or the control of US persons”.

Women activists say they won a major step forward with Egypt's new constitution, which enshrined greater rights for women. But months after its passage, they're worrying whether those rights will be implemented or will turn out to be merely ink on paper.

Egyptian government officials have previously stated that subsidised energy sources have been a burden on the country’s budget, and announced their intention to gradually cut them.

Growth in Egypt’s economy is expected to remain sluggish this year as political uncertainty keeps tourists and foreign investors away, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.

At least 51 people died in clashes across Egypt as the country's two largest political factions gathered in rival commemorations of Egypt's participation in the 1973 war with Israel, a day of deep significance for many Egyptians.

Telephone and internet networks were briefly shut down to Egypt's southern province of Aswan for several hours, as authorities moved to try to end a bloody tribal feud that killed 26 people over the past days, security officials and residents said Tuesday.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the retrial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday, along with his two sons Gamal and Alaa, former Minister of Interior Habib al-Adly and six security aides, until April 8, Youm7 reported.

Ahmed Doma’s wife and his brother will organize a sit-in at Ithadeya presidential palace Monday after Tora Prison’s Misdemeanor Court of Appeals approved the three-year prison sentence issued for political activists Ahmed Doma, Ahmed Maher and Mohamed Adel, reported Youm7.

Activists from April 6 and a number of political groups have started an open ended sit-in in front of the presidential palace in reaction to Monday's court verdict which upheld the three-year jail sentence and LE50,000 fine of prominent activists Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel, and Ahmed Douma.

Kuwait is in talks to renew some of its contracts to supply oil to Egypt and has been looking for potential investments in the energy sector there, the Gulf state's oil minister said on Monday.

Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi has demanded the release from prison of activists who played key roles in the January 2011 uprising.

Saudi Arabia released on Sunday 35 Egyptian fishermen who were arrested 37 days ago for violating its territorial waters.

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced a police officer to death for the 2012 killing of two men in the southern province of Qena, state news agency MENA reported.