The Palestinian-Israeli final status negotiations were top of the agenda in a discussion between Minister of Foreign Affairs Nabil Fahmy and his United States counterpart John Kerry.

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) released a statement Monday condemning an assault on journalists that were covering clashes between supporters and opponents of Hamdeen Sabahi at the Press Syndicate headquarters on 4 March.

The Egyptian cabinet’s economic team announced the establishment of four working committees in order to eliminate the smuggling of goods and merchants.

Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayyeb stressed on Sunday 16/3/2014 that Al-Azhar will not be lenient in fighting terrorism and extremism and their supporters.

Egypt's Illicit Gains Authority decided on Monday to refer Rashid Mohamed Rashid, trade and industry minister during the Mubarak era, to court on corruption charges.

Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said the ministry is coordinating with the armed forces to devise unprecedented security measures to face calls to "destroy the state."

Interim leader Adly Mansour has expressed optimism about Egypt's future during an interview on private satellite channel CBC.

Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi respects Khaled Ali’s decision to withdraw from the elections and hopes that Ali’s supporters back him in the race, Sabbahi told Al-Shorouq on Sunday.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab met with notary officials Sunday evening at Cabinet headquarters in an effort to solve problems with striking employees at the State Notary Office, according to a board member of the State Notary Office Association, Momen Khairallah.

Egypt's military chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reshuffled top regional army posts on Monday, including the heads of Egypt's second army and Egypt's southern military zone.

We are not going to budge; we are not negotiating for a interests agenda. We are demanding a better healthcare set-up, both for doctors and for patients. This is not something to give up on,” said Amr El-Shoura, member of the Doctor's Syndicate council and coordinator of an on-and-off strike of medical workers, which includes along with doctors, dentists and pharmacists.

Amr Moussa, head of the 50-member committee that was tasked with amending 2012 constitution, said we absolutely should stop at the word of ‘immunization’ of the High Elections Commission’s decisions and that he would have used another wording for it, unless the Supreme Constitutional Court had decreed constitutionality of the immunization.

Secretary General of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) Azza al-Ashmawy expressed deep appreciation for interim President Adly Mansour on Thursday, as he decided to establish governmental committees for child protection.

The Egyptian cabinet issued a press statement on Saturday evening to announce it would take all necessary measures to counter terrorism.

Leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi says he doubts Egypt’s army chief will bring democracy if elected, citing alleged rights abuses since he toppled the country’s first democratically chosen leader.

Egypt's foreign affairs ministry has summoned the envoys of European countries that sent a joint statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday condemning Egypt's recent crackdown on demonstrators and political dissent.

Masked gunmen opened fire on an army bus in Cairo on Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding three in a rare attack on troops in the Egyptian capital, security officials and a military spokesman said.

Egypt's Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel-Muttalib and his accompanying delegation returned home Tuesday from Addis Ababa, where talks on Ethiopia's multi-billion dollar hydroelectric dam project seem to have hit snags, again.

Egypt's Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding said on Thursday its 2013 profit after tax dropped by 69.5 percent compared with a year earlier to 1.12 billion Egyptian pounds.

Egypt's President, Adli Mansour, has said that freedom of opinion and expression is guaranteed in all forms of art.

Former Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Samy Anan announced that he will not run in the upcoming presidential elections during a Thursday press conference.