Netherlands-based contractor and global producer of natural gas-based chemicals OCI N.V. has appealed a preliminary ruling issued on Tuesday against Nassef Sawiris, the chairman of its Egyptian arm Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) and the wealthiest man in Egypt.

A Banha court sentenced in absentia Abdallah Mursi, the son of Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Mursi, and his friend to one year in prison with labor on Wednesday, fining them 10,000 Egyptian pound each, for drug possession.

The Red Sea Criminal Court fined 21 members of the Muslim Brotherhood 6,000 EGP Tuesday ($839) after the Qena Appeal Court rejected their June 1 request to change the body of judges deliberating their case, Youm7 reported.

A statement by a Muslim Brotherhood-led coalition said on Tuesday that security forces arrested three leaders of Islamist political parties.

Egypt's wealthiest man, Nassef Sawiris, has been sentenced in absentia to three years in prison and fines worth LE50 million on charges of refraining from paying due checks to Egypt's Tax Authority (ETA), sources at the authority told Ahram Online.

On Tuesday, Cairo Criminal Court, decided to postpone the trial of Mohamed al-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy, two leading Muslim Brotherhood figures, as well as two others, to 6 July.

The leader of the Al-Qaeda offshoot that has taken control of parts of Iraq and Syria has urged Muslims around the world to fight to avenge wrongs committed against their religion.

The Muslim Brotherhood condemned the bombings that took place in the vicinity of Ettehadiya presidential palace on Monday and demanded an immediate investigation.

Pope Francis received the new King of Spain Felipe VI and his glamorous ex-newsreader wife Queen Letizia at the Vatican on Monday, on their first foreign trip since taking the throne.

The Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awqaf) barred 26,000 Muslim Brotherhood members and Salafists from giving Friday prayer sermons, according to Al-Shorouq.

A series of explosions outside Itihadiya Palace in Heliopolis on Monday morning killed two police explosives experts and injured other policemen, according to the Ministry of Interior.

Mohammed Mokhtar Gomaa explained that the decision should ensure that sermons during Islam’s holy month of fasting “unite people, not divide them,” compared to what he described as a more politicised past when the country was run by Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

An Egyptian court sentenced on Sunday 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to three years in prison and acquitted one person, for rioting in Cairo's Heliopolis during the constitutional referendum earlier this year.

Prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 others who were sentenced to 15 years in jail earlier in June will begin the appeal process on 22 July, according to state-owned Al-Ahram.

Cairo Criminal Court held at the Police Academy postponed Thursday the trial of toppled President Mohamed Morsy and 14 Muslim Brotherhood leaders and former presidency officials over charges of killing protesters at Ettehadiya Presidential Palace to 15 July.

Saudi authorities threatened Thursday to expel non-Muslim foreigners who eat, drink or smoke in public during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which begins this weekend.

Some 40,000 public servants hired by Hamas went on strike in Gaza on Thursday in a pay dispute that could test the resilience of the new Palestinian government, formed just weeks ago under the Islamist group’s unity pact with President Mahmoud Abbas.

The Criminal Court at the Police Academy adjourned Wednesday the re-trial of Mubarak-era Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, who face charges of squandering public funds, to August 26.