The total number of Egyptian governorates is expected to reach 32, Minister of State for Local Development Adel Labib announced in a press conference Wednesday.

An Egyptian misdemeanor court sentenced two people to six months in prison with labor on Wednesday for two separate sexual harassment incidents.

Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs will head to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to participate in the 41st session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation meeting for Foreign Ministers.

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed on Wednesday the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister Habib al-Adly and six former security officials over charges of murdering protesters during the 2011 uprising to 6 July.

Zaazou, 59, continues in his post as tourism minister. He is a political independent who was appointed tourism minister in August 2012. He was previously assistant to former tourism minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour.

After being held 11 months in detention, Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah El-Shamy was released on Tuesday night, along with 12 others.

On Tuesday, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi gave instructions to monitor human rights violations, said Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb.

The African Union's Peace and Security Council has unanimously agreed to unfreeze Egypt's membership to the AU, state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.

Administrative court headed by Judge Mohamed Qeshta allowed lawyer Khaled Ali to appeal articles number 8 and 10 of the protest law in front of the constitutional court Tuesday.

Outgoing Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim spent his second-last day in office Sunday touring the Giza Pyramids, and stressed their further development as a key to developing tourism.

The Administrative Court set 31 August to issue a ruling in a lawsuit to lift the ban on former National Democratic Party leaders running for parliamentary elections.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued a presidential decree on Monday forming a Supreme Committee for legislation reform.

The UAE is expected to implement projects worth $3 billion worth in Egypt in order to boost the Egyptian economy, according to Daily Al Bayan newspaper.

On Sunday, Heliopolis Misdemeanor Court adjourned the trial of two young men charged with sexually harassing girls in Heliopolis last week to 22 June.

The April 6 Youth Movement is urging the families of political detainees to attend a hearing on the protest law in the State Council Tuesday, Member of the Information Office of April 6 Youth Movement Mohamed Kamal said Monday statement to Tahrir News

Security forces will be removing from vehicles the widespread sticker asking onlookers “Have you praised the Prophet (Mohamed) today,” among other religious slogans, Deputy Interior Minister for Media Affairs Abdel-Fattah Osman said in a televised interview on Sunday.

Egypt's prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat ordered that a doctor and his assistant be detained on Sunday for negligence that led to the death of a 26-year-old woman.

Tens of activists gathered in Cairo on Saturday to protest against the recurring sexual harassment cases in Egypt and demand harsher punishments.

A ministerial committee tasked with examining the issue of sexual harassment in Egypt announced its plan on to combat the problem following a meeting on Thursday.

The expected formation of Egypt's new cabinet has been held up after several candidates turned down offers of ministerial positions from Prime Minister Ibrahim Melheb, two government sources said on Sunday.

A brutal video depicting a sexual assault in Tahrir Square seems to have intensely focused much needed public debate on the issue of sexual assault against women in a nation known to be conservative in nature.