Hurghada hospital received on Monday three ambulances coming from Ras Ghareb hospital carrying six people who were badly wounded in a bus accident.

The United Arab Emirates will provide Egypt with petroleum products worth $8.7 billion over a year starting in September, an Egyptian official told Reuters on Sunday. Egypt has struggled to curb its swelling budget deficit and meet its soaring energy demands, which have resulted in daily electricity cuts around the country of 86 million people.

The Administrative Court said on Sunday it lacks the proper jurisdiction to rule over banning leaders of the National Democratic Party of former President Hosni Mubarak to run for parliamentary elections.

Eighty days have passed since former army general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been elected as Egypt's president, and already 82 percent of Egyptians are happy with his performance, according to a Baseera poll.

Egyptian real estate developer Palm Hills posted an 8.3 percent fall in second-quarter net profit, the firm said in a statement on Sunday.

Egypt's Ministry of Solidarity extended on Sunday a deadline for NGOs to register their existence with the ministry or else face legal investigation, a statement by the National Human Rights Council read.

The inauguration of the Qustul Border Crossing represents a starting point for Egyptian products to begin entering the Sudanese market as well as the markets of other African countries, according to Minister of Industry and Trade Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour.

Accomplished human rights defender and lawyer Ahmed Seif El-Islam passed away on Wednesday afternoon at the age of 63. He had been unconscious for almost two weeks following a cardiac arrest, according to state-owned Al-Ahram.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi will visit the United States in September to attend a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, his first trip there as the country's head of state, the country's official news agency reported Wednesday.

Egypt stocks were more active at the end of the week as the main index rose 0.65 percent to close the session at 9,435 points and turnover picked up to LE644 million.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has thanked President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Egyptian efforts to end the crisis in the Gaza Strip, according to Egyptian presidency spokesman Ihad Badawi, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

BP Egypt’s DEKA project in offshore Egypt produced its first gas Tuesday with the start of production at the Denise South-6 well.

Security services arrested on Wednesday the suspect accused of posting “Helwan Battalions” video on the internet, said informed security sources.

The presidency announced on Wednesday that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will head the Egyptian delegation at the 69th meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 25 September and that he will also participate in the UN Climate Summit on 23 September.

For the first time since 2007, a United Nations World Food Program (WFP) convoy crossed from Egypt into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, carrying enough food for around 150,000 people for five days.

Ahmed Seif Hamad, an acclaimed human rights lawyer and leftist activist, passed away on Wednesday in a Cairo hospital. He was 63.

Eighteen people were killed after two buses sank into a canal in west Luxor in the early hours of Tuesday.

Egypt's Foreign Ministry asked citizens returning from conflict-torn Libya to avoid crossing through the Ras Jedir checkpoint on the Libyan-Tunisian borders as it could endanger their lives, said a statement issued on Tuesday.

Police arrested the main suspect accused of inciting violence against police and military and who appeared in the video entitled ‘Helwan Battalions’, said Major General Sayyed Shafiq on Tuesday.

An Egyptian minister told a delegation from the US embassy in Cairo that Egypt's protest law is no different than the one currently being applied in the US, where protests in Missouri over an unarmed African-American teenager's death at the hands of a white police officer have drawn international attention.

Dozens of protesters gathered on Tuesday afternoon in front of Cairo's Gezira Club to object the mass poisoning of cats at the upscale sporting club.