Egypt once again expressed its “full support for Libya’s state institutions” and asserted its full respect for the will of the Libyan people on Saturday.

The Indian capital New Delhi will hold a meeting of the second session of the Joint Commission of Commerce between Egypt and India during 10 and 11 November 2014 to discussan action plan to push increased trade between the two countries, said the Ministry of Trade and Industry in a statement Sunday.

Noose tightening around NGOs in Egypt The noose is tightening around Egypt’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs). These Egyptian NGOs — essentially what we call “nonprofits” in the US – focus on everything from human rights to other important issues. They may soon lose their independence under an old law that the new Egyptian government is bringing back to life.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Sunday appointed new deans to seven faculties in Cairo, Ain Shams, and Tanta universities for three-year terms.

Egypt's President has ordered the formation of special court circuit for traffic law violations on Thursday, days after two mass road accidents killed 28 people, mostly minors.

The ministry of interior announced on Thursday the arrest of the truck driver believed to be responsible for the school bus crash on an agricultural road in Beheira which left 18 killed.

Egypt received a $1 billion grant from Kuwait earlier this week, an Egyptian government source said on Thursday, the latest in billions of dollars of aid to arrive from Gulf Arab allies since the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsy last year.

An appeals court referred on Thursday four defendants accused of rape to Egypt's Grand Mufti to consider their death sentences.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been chosen as Africa’s most influential leaders by Forbes Middle East, which ranked the Egyptian president 51th in its annual list of the world’s most outstanding figures.

A request to release detained hunger-striking Egyptian-American Mohamed Soltan due to his deteriorating health condition was rejected for the fourth time on Wednesday.

A human rights group has halted its activities starting Tuesday due to what it described as persecution and media attacks practiced against organizations working in the field.

The Egyptian Tax Authority’s (ETA) Independent Appeals Committee has ruled in favour of OCI NV’s subsidiary in Egypt Orascom Construction Industries (OCI). Commenting on the ruling, Nassef Sawiris issued an exclusive statement to Daily News Egypt saying that he is “grateful that ultimately justice has prevailed”.

Egypt's Deputy Foreign Minister for Human Rights Hisham Badr assured that there is no final draft for a new NGOs law and that it will be postponed until a new parliament is elected.

Egypt will host the sixth round of the Joint Egyptian-Ethiopian Ministerial Committee in 2016, stated Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Badr Abdel Atty said Monday.

An unsubstantiated statement was released Monday affirming that Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (ABM) was pledging loyalty to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), stating that the group chose Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, known as the leader of ISIS, as its leader.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Monday that more security and logistical measures are to be taken to evacuate the area around the Egypt-Gaza border, promising the displaced North Sinai families heavy value compensations, according to state television.

The official spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned reports of the Israeli government’s intention to build 500 housing units in East Jerusalem, describing it as a “severe defiance of International Law and the Geneva Conventions”, according to a foreign ministry statement on Monday.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait are discussing the creation of a military pact to take on Islamic militants, with the possibility of a joint force to intervene around the Middle East, The Associated Press has learned.

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation has agreed to increase its monthly exports of crude oil to Egypt from 1.5 million to 2 million barrels, Tarek al-Molla, chairman of the state-run Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, said Monday.

Long-awaited parliament elections are not to be held before May 2015, according to sources at the High Elections Commission, who said the panel was going to convene Monday to discuss its latest preparations for the polls.

The Sinai Development Council (SDC) is set to meet with elders and leaders from the border town of Rafah on Monday at the order of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.