The United States, seizing on Egypt's weak economy and shaky security, is seeking to convince its new president to embrace more moderate policies to achieve stability — and deliver more American aid.

Egyptian authorities arrested 290 nationals on Wednesday for trying to illegally return home from Libya, apparently fleeing mounting unrest in the capital Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi, state news agency MENA said.

Under pressure from western powers and international lenders and investors, the Egyptian government is waging a “war on subsidies” that critics say could become a “war on the poor”, who make up 40 per cent of the population.

Three people were killed in a car bomb blast on Wednesday in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt's state-run Nile Television said.

30 July marks the birthday of Farid Shawqi, one of the foremost Egyptian actors and filmmakers. Google celebrates with a doodle combining a depiction of a few roles played by Shawqi.

A federal judge has released details of the case against a southern Illinois man accused of killing two women during a Cairo bank robbery.

Egypt’s Ambassador to Germany Mohamed Higazy inaugurated Monday a temporary exhibition of ancient Egyptian artifacts in Sarland State west of Germany, Youm7 reported.

A local initiative monitored 13 incidents of sexual harassment in downtown Cairo on Monday, first day of Eid al-Fitr, despite the intense security preparations.

The Egyptian armed forces attacked several hideouts for "terrorists" in North Sinai, the army spokesman said in a statement on Monday.

Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned Israel's excessive use of force against civilians in the Palestinian Gaza strip, said a government statement issued on Monday.

A nine-year-old girl child was killed and another injured when a rocket fell in front of a house in in Egypt's Sinai peninsula in an apparent attack targeting soldiers.

The militant Hamas movement in Gaza believes Egypt needs to come up with an expanded version of truce to reclaim its role as the main mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian armed conflict, a senior Hamas official told RIA Novosti Tuesday.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has sent a diplomatic delegation to Tunisia in order to help with the evacuation of Egyptians leaving Libya through Tunisia, DPA reported Monday.

After each attack in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, everybody starts talking about the need to impose security but the warnings go unheeded and the attacks CONTINUE. Palestinians were accused of perpetrating the latest attack in the city of al-Arish that led to dozens of victims among civilians, the army and the police force but no culprits were caught. As the Egyptian government claims to be “making progress in its daily war on terror,” which has struck Sinai since the ousting of former Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi. It is the regular civilians living in Sinai who are increasingly suffering from what they describe as “more and more serious violations” against them.

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.