A car bomb targeting a bus carrying Egyptian soldiers wounded three civilians in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, security officials said.

A booby-trapped vehicle exploded Sunday morning in a neighborhood of the North Sinai city of Rafah called "Unknown Soldier," an Egyptian security source said.

Egypt’s finance ministry has allocated 15 million Egyptian pounds to the high elections committee as a first step for preparations of the upcoming presidential elections, Al-Mal newspaper said.

Egypt's largest bank saw an eight percent rise in its net income in the fiscal year 2012/13 compared to the year before, it announced on Sunday.

Popular Current chief Hamdeen Sabbahi has called on the "Revolution Candidate" campaign not to pressure him and give him time to decide on his possible presidential bid in case Defense Minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi runs as well.

After a new constitution came into effect on 18 January, Egyptians will soon be voting for their next president.

Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawy accepted the resignation of Ziad Bahaa el-Din, former international cooperation minister and assistant to the prime minister, which was submitted on Jan. 23.

Saudi Arabia is expected to give Egypt up to U.S. $4 billion in additional aid in the form of central bank deposits and petroleum products, state-run Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported on Thursday.

Badr Abdel Aaty, spokesperson for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, rejected a US statement criticizing the prosecution of journalists in Egypt saying it was “unacceptable for any state or third party to interfere in the work of the Egyptian judiciary.”

Egypt will put an Australian, two Britons and a Dutchwoman on trial for aiding 16 Egyptians belonging to a "terrorist organisation", the public prosecutor said on Wednesday (local time), describing the four as Al Jazeera correspondents.

Yesterday, I mentioned the number of times that Obama referred to Egypt in his 2012 and 2013 State of the Union addresses, noting that since the 2013 speech there has been a coup in Egypt, a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, and a referendum on a draft constitution, which the Muslim Brotherhood called for its members to boycott.

Egypt's Central Bank (CBE) received $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, the Egyptian daily Al-Mal reported on Wednesday.

The Egyptian army said on Wednesday it killed two militants in an air offensive in Sinai and destroyed two homes it said belonged to other “dangerous” militants.

Former presidential candidates Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, head of Strong Egypt Party, and human rights activist Khaled Ali will be investigated for charges of insulting the judiciary through the media, a judicial source told Youm7 Wednesday, adding that a number of political activists and media figures would also be investigated on the same charges.

A bank account will be set up to receive donations for the restoration of Cairo's Islamic Museum, which was partially destroyed in a recent bomb attack.

Four Apache helicopters hovered over the village of al-Moqataa, south of Sheikh Zuwayed, in an attempt to reach those accused of targeting a military helicopter few days ago in North Sinai.

Former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq said he will not run for presidency, if Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi did. “If Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, defense minister, ran for presidency, I will support him and will not nominate myself,” he said.

“The U.S. is prepared to accept and deal with Maj. Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sisi if he becomes president,” said American political expert Eric Trager in a Tuesday phone call to CBC Extra TV channel, adding that the general would likely face several challenges, especially on the political and economic levels.

An aide to Egypt's interior minister has been shot dead in Giza's Haram district, the ministry said on Tuesday.

Egypt’s interim-deputy prime minister and international cooperation minister Ziad Bahaa El-Din has announced his resignation.

The official spokesperson of the Armed Forces Ahmed Mohamed Ali called upon media to double check any information before publishing news related to the military institution, in a statement published on his official Facebook page on Monday.