Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he wished the imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists, convicted of aiding "a terrorist group", had been deported and not put on trial, a newspaper reported on Monday.

A Cairo court has upheld death sentences against 10 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced 38 others to life in prison, including the spiritual leader of the Islamist group, Egyptian judicial officials say.

On Jan. 17, 1977, Egypt's then-Deputy Finance Minister Abdemonem al-Qaisony stood in front of the parliament to declare a number of economic policy changes. The changes were basically increasing the prices of fuel, bread and 25 other consumer goods. Those decisions were ordered by President Anwar Sadat. Back then, Sadat (who was to be assassinated four years later) was celebrated as the man who had defeated Israel and had brought Israelis to peace talks; he also believed he was invincible.

A man claiming to be the Caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, made his first public appearance at a Mosul mosque on Friday to give a sermon demanding obedience from his followers just over a week after Al-Baghdadi was announced Caliph.

An Al-Azhar University student gave her testimony on Saturday to the prosecution in an investigation into allegations that she was sexually assaulted by a policeman.

Prosecution authorities did not find any new evidence while going through security tapes while investigating the Ithadiya bombings near the presidential palace on June 30 that killing two bomb squad experts.

Thirty-seven out of 48 defendants accused of inciting violence and blocking the Qalyoub Highway last year were given life sentences Saturday.

The head of the Wasat Party, Essam Sultan, has been found innocent of charges of insulting the judiciary, a Cairo criminal court ruled on Saturday.

An 11th Dynasty chapel belonging to King Mentuhotep II was discovered on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Sohag, according to Ahram Online. Located near the large temple of King Seti I, Mentuhotep II built the chapel of limestone to honor the god Osiris after his unification with the local god of Sohag, Khenti-Amenty. Some of the engravings on the chapel’s walls have been damaged by subterranean water. “It is a very important discovery that will reveal more of the history of King Mentuhotep II,” said Minister of Antiquities and Heritage Mamdouh El-Damaty.

It was around this time last year that Amr Moussa announced that his meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood kingpin Khairat El-Shater failed to find a negotiated exit out of the political deal.

The Ministry of Interior has implicated a police officer in the escape attempt of Adel Habara as he was transferred from the court to prison June 28, al-Masry al-Youm reported.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) condemned the arrest of its spokesperson and leading member Magdy Qurqur, accusing authorities of exercising violence on public figures who share opposing views even when they express them through peaceful means.

Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced two supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsy to 10 years, a third to five years and acquitted two others of charges of burning Heliopolis tramway during protests in 2013.

The Salafi Nour Party on Wednesday called on political forces to unite against the return of the police state and warned the regime of a public anger from the policies of the government.

The Brotherhood-led National Alliance to Support Legitimacy called for 35 marches to Tahrir Square after the evening prayers on Thursday, the first anniversary of President Mohamed Morsy’s ouster.

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.