Egypt's postal service is currently offering the investment certificates being sold by national banks to fund the Suez Canal expansion project, Al-Ahram’s daily newspaper reported on Sunday.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday received Argentinian Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman in Cairo. Timerman praised the Egyptian efforts on the Gaza ceasefire and said it was necessary to resume talks between Palestinians and Israelis to reach a final compromise.

Giza police arrested five people for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in Saft al-Laban.

The son of Mahmoud el-Sayed, a senior judge at the Cairo Appeals Court, was murdered Wednesday afternoon after gunmen passing on a motorcycle opened fire on him in front of his house in Mansoura, the capital city of Dakahlia governorate, officials said.

A worker in the Suez Canal development project excavation died Tuesday onsite, Maj. Gen. Kamel el-Wazir, head of the military’s Engineering Authority, announced in press statements Wednesday.

An Egyptian prosecutor decided on Thursday to release nine members of the new "Dank" youth movement on a bail of 5,000 Egyptian pounds for each of them.

The European Union has ratified a grant of 70 million euros to fund an "emergency employment" programme in Egypt, EU ambassador to Egypt James Moran announced on Thursday.

Dozens of Egyptians have begun a hunger strike to demand the release of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a symbol of the 2011 uprising, and others they say are being unfairly detained in an effort to crush new-found freedoms.

North Qalyubia prosecution referred three police agents and an employee of Khanka hospital to Khanka Misdemeanor Court over charges of abusing the body of a victim at the hospital’s morgue.

The Omraniah Misdemeanor Court Wednesday sentenced Osama Othman—a man charged with the torture of children in an orphanage he owned and managed—to three years in prison and a 1,000 EGP ($140) fine, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's education ministry has passed new regulations aiming to curb the continuing hike in private education tution, allowing schools to take such a measure every five years.

The Cairo Criminal Court Wednesday adjourned the trial of activists Alaa Abdel Fattah, Mohamed Nouby, Wael Metwaly and 22 other defendants to Sept. 15, in the globally scrutinized case known as the “Shura Council” protests of November 2013.

Egyptian banks sold over LE8.5 billion ($1.2 billion) worth of investment certificates on Sunday to finance the new parallel Suez Canal project, Hisham Ramez, governor of the Egyptian Central Bank, said.

A child has lost his hand in a blast in North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid, state news agency MENA reported on Monday. It is unclear whether an IED or a landmine caused the explosion. The 10-year-old boy was transferred to Al-Arish hospital and police are investigating the incident.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met Sunday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as well as Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and Prince Khaled Bin Bandar, Saudi Arabia's chief of intelligence.

Egypt plans to implement a nationwide strategy to fight corruption in two weeks, the country's anti-corruption committee said on Sunday during a meeting with the prime minister, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, who visited Addis Ababa this week, said his country is satisfied with the result of the tripartite negotiation on the future of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

A police officer affiliated with Minya Security Directorate fatally shot a man in Beheira following a personal dispute in Damanhour.

Egypt plans to implement a nationwide strategy to fight corruption in two weeks, the country's anti-corruption committee said on Sunday during a meeting with the prime minister, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi denied on Monday Israeli media reports that he agreed to offer parts of Egyptian lands to Palestinians, reported state-run news agency MENA.

The Anti-Coup Alliance called on workers to join the “the uprising of the poor”, claiming it has become clear for workers that the “military rule continues to abduct and terrorise labour leaders struggling for workers’ rights”.