Egypt's interior ministry has denied news reports that it contracted the Egyptian sister company of a US-based online security firm to monitor Egypt's electronic communications and social media networks.

Attorney General Hisham Barakat announced Wednesday that13 jails all over the state are free of any “detainees” or prisoners without judicial orders.

The Cabinet has “no intention” to discuss the controversial 2013 Protest Law any time soon, Cabinet spokesperson Hossan Qawesh told the “Akher Al-Nahar” program Wednesday night.

Gamal and Alaa Mubarak and six other businessmen, who are officials and former members of the board of directors of the National Bank, arrived at the headquarters of the Giza Criminal Court on Thursday to attend their trial on charges of illegal gains from the sale of National Bank of Egypt, waste of public money, causing huge losses to the economy and destroying the country's banking system through manipulating the stock exchange.

The Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the trial of political activist Ahmed Douma and 268 others to Sept. 23—in the case known as the “Ministers’ Cabinet” protests of 2011—amid renewed calls to save his life after his health has deteriorated severely since he started a hunger strike 20 days ago.

Egypt’s protest law is expected to be amended within the coming few days after the government reviews changes suggested by both the National Council for Human Rights and the Ministry of Transitional Justice, a source close to the government has told Ahram Online.

Last month, Egyptian security forces cleared two of Cairo’s main and overcrowded avenues by displacing hundreds of street vendors who have been working there for years without any consistent government action to address their status.

Antiquities Minister Mahmoud al-Damaty accused media outlets of disseminating baseless allegations about a possible collapse of Egypt’s oldest pyramid in Saqqara as UNESCO-backed fears grow.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could see protests by his opponents and supporters when he marks his first attendance at the United Nations General Assembly's 69th session during the period of 21-25 September.

The Egyptian security forces have arrested members of the "Terrorist Brotherhood Organisation" who were involved in attacks on policemen and armed forces in four governorates, said an Interior Ministry statement issued Tuesday.

Six police personnel were killed when an armoured vehicle exploded on the Rafah-Arish road in North Sinai on Tuesday.

Egypt is targeting a budget deficit of around 11 percent for the fiscal year that began in July and aims to boost economic growth to 5-6 percent within three years, Finance Minister Hani Dimian told a conference on Tuesday.

More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the last week, bringing the death toll this year to almost 3,000, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Monday.

The Suez Canal corridor project planned by a consortium led by Dar Al-Handasah will cost $220 billion over fifteen years, said Ashraf Salman, Egypt's investment minister, at the Euromoney conference in Cairo on Tuesday.

A Cairo criminal court has ordered the release on bail of prominent activists Alaa Abdel-Fattah and two others who were appealing 15-year sentences for breaking a controversial protest law in November 2013.

Egypt's tourism industry, battered by three years of political upheaval, violence and street protests, could fully recover by the end of next year if regional turmoil does not spread to the Arab world's biggest country, the tourism minister said.

The Egyptian army's chief of staff, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Hegazi, met with a British military official on Monday for talks on regional concerns.

Investment certificates issued by Egyptian banks to fund the new branch of the Suez Canal will be sold out in 48 hours at the current rate of demand, Central Bank of Egypt governor Hisham Ramez told Al-Ahram's Arabic website on Sunday evening.

Former Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said the Islamic State (IS) gives an “ugly face” for Islam that harms Muslims and Arabs all over the world and must be “firmly confronted.”

Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb launched on Sunday a new 90-kilometre road to the Farafra Oasis in the southern New Valley governorate.

No police will be stationed inside Egypt's university campuses, said Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on Friday, signaling a possible ease in curbs on student demonstrations ahead of the new academic year.