Egypt’s parliamentary elections are to be held by the end of this year, the government announced on Sunday. A government statement said President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi had discussed plans to hold parliamentary elections by the end of the year with visiting Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil on Sunday.

Spain has lifted a travel advisory on Egypt's resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh.

The Health Directorate of Qalioubiya was not notified of any deaths following clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and police in the governorate on Monday, a source at the directorate told Al-Ahram Arabic news website.

"The conditions will be facilitated for the dispatch of Iran's medical aid and foodstuff to the people of Gaza very soon," Shoukry said in the TELEPHONE conversation on Sunday.

Dashing the hopes of his family, Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy will remain in an Egyptian jail after his name and those of his Al Jazeera colleagues were absent from a list of presidential PARDONSissued to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Sunday.

The prosecutor general ordered the release Saturday of 45 students for Eid Al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Four people were killed and one was seriously injured in a traffic accident on the Axis road west of Alexandria on Saturday.

Twenty-three Egyptian workers were killed in a rocket attack on Saturday in Tripoli, where militia rivalries are intensifying, state news agency MENA reported.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged for sending more humanitarian aid to Gaza to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians, said a military forces statement on Sunday.

Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned “in the strongest words” on Sunday the shelling of a Tripoli home housing Egyptian workers, which led to the death of 23 Egyptians.

Egyptian human rights organizations called on the government to end the “ongoing deterioration” of the state of human rights in Egypt by retracting a bill drafted by the Ministry of Solidarity, which turns the civil society into a “quasi-government” sector, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) said in a Thursday statement.

The armed forces have destroyed two homemade rockets, two remote controlled car bombs along with six explosive devices in a crackdown targeting hideouts of “takfiri” group members in North Sinai’s city of Sheikh Zuweid, military spokesperson Mohamed Samir in a statement.

Amr Moussa, former foreign minister and chairman of the 50-member committee which drafted Egypt's new constitution, says he won't let members of Hosni Mubarak's defunct ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) join a political alliance he formed with hopes of winning a majority in the coming parliament.

The Ministry of Supply denied plans to raise the prices of gas cylinders after claims that they would increase during the coming weeks, al-Shorouq newspaper reported Thursday.

The Egyptian pound was stable at a central bank dollar sale on Thursday but strengthened on the black market ahead of the Muslim Eid holiday next week.

Egypt's foreign minister raised the possibility on Tuesday of restarting stalled peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians as part of negotiating a cease-fire in the war that has broken out on the Gaza Strip.

US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Hamas on Tuesday to pursue a negotiated end to its conflict with Israel after what he said were constructive talks with Egyptian officials about their ceasefire proposal.

The prospects for peace in Gaza remain dim this week, despite the positive sign that the Egyptian government has thrown its weight behind negotiating a cease-fire. Following years of internal turmoil and political instability, Egypt on Tuesday called for a new round of peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, offering what has become its traditional service of brokering an end to the perennial violence between the two. Egypt, the U.S. and other world leaders will work "to not only resolve this issue but also to set in motion once again the peace process that [Secretary of State John Kerry] has been so actively involved in so as to end this ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis,” said Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri, after meeting with Kerry in Egypt on Tuesday.

Egypt has ordered eight more Airbus C295 transports in a deal which will take its fleet to 20 and makes it the biggest customer for the market-leading tactical airlifter.

Egypt's steel companies have filed a petition against rebar and wire rod imports from China, Turkey and Ukraine, one of its top steelmakers said, the latest move in a years-long quest to protect the fledging industry from low-priced imports.

Egypt's economic ministers approve raising the subsidy for spinning companies (Private and state-run) to purchase abundant Egyptian cotton to become LE350 per quintal instead of LE200 ahead of harvest season in September, announced the ministry of, industry, trade and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in a statement on Tuesday.