Military and police troops stormed Bani Warkan, a village north of Minya, on Sunday, arresting 13 suspects in the latest security crackdown on provincial Egyptian areas perceived as Islamist strongholds.

The representatives of al-Azhar in the 50-member constituent assembly amending Egypt's suspended constitution have expressed concerns over amending one of the articles.

Twelve people were wounded, including one in critical condition, in Friday's confrontations between supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohamed Mursi, a medical source said.

Egypt's government will shorten its curfew by two hours, the cabinet said on Thursday.

An Egyptian police officer was shot dead on Thursday, state media reported, in clashes on the outskirts of Cairo as security forces tried to reassert control over an area where 11 policemen were killed in a militant attack last month.

Nasr City misdemeanour court decided on Thursday to postpone the review of a case filed against former vice president for international relations, Mohamed ElBaradei, to 19 October.

Egyptian explosives experts defused two primitive bombs planted on the Cairo metro line on Thursday, the state news agency reported, causing a partial closure of the network.

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights has condemned the death of a Frenchman in Qasr al-Nil police station, contending criminal suspicion.

Following decades of authoritarian rule, in which power has been usurped by one strongman and his party, Egypt is considering a mixed political system, which would ensure a balance between state powers.

Egypt’s national minimum wage decision will be determined in January 2014, said The National Council for Wages (NCW) on Tuesday.

A source at the Supreme Judicial Council has said that the council is investigating complaints submitted to the prosecutor general charging Ahmed al-Zend, head of the Judges Club, with involvement in politics and certain political parties. Members of the club’s board of directors and others of the Legal Committee for the Defense of Judges were also charged with the same complaints.

Four men in the port city of Suez were sentenced to prison by a military court for violating the curfew, the latest in the continuing series of military trials against Egyptian civilians.

Egypt’s former vice-president Mohamed ElBaradei on Tuesday called on his party’s young members to remain faithful to the goals of the January 25 revolution.

The 50-member committee responsible for amending Egypt’s constitution may reexamine constitutional statements that limit freedom of religion to followers of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, according to a leading member of the committee.

Egyptian armed forces' operations in the restive Sinai Peninsula will not run on a deadline, military spokesperson Ahmed Mohamed Ali said late Monday.

Interim Minister of Foreign Affairs Nabil Fahmy and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov both stressed the importance of the relationship between their two countries on the first of two days of discussions being held in Moscow.

Egyptian authorities are set to reduce the hours of the nightly curfew in key governorates from 11pm-6am to 12am-5am, an official source told Al-Ahram's Arabic news website on Monday.

The cabinet released a statement on Monday on behalf of interim Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi, announcing that it had approved the formation of a fact-finding committee to investigate violence that took place on 30 June and the ensuing weeks.

Egypt's constitution-drafting committee is unlikely to amend Article Two which defines the role of Islamic law in legislation, committee spokesperson Mohamed Salmawi said on Sunday.

The total number of casualties in the armed forces in Sinai since January 2011 has reached 125, in addition to over 996 injuries amongst forces members, said Military spokesperson Ahmed Mohamed Aly.

A coalition of political movements announced they will stage a protest Monday in Talaat Harb Square against the extention of the state of emergency and curfew, the random arrests of civilians and the trial of civilians before military courts.