Egypt on Thursday cleared a final hurdle to long-awaited parliamentary elections seen as decisive in cementing the rule of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted President Mohamed Mursi, and excluding the banned Muslim Brotherhood from politics.

The death toll of the Red Sea sunken boat has risen to 20, and the number of injured has reached 18, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, Health Ministry Spokesman said on Thursday.

Two Egyptian military officers and two from the United Arab Emirates were killed on Wednesday when their plane crashed during a joint exercise in Egypt, official reports said.

An Egyptian woman died on Wednesday of bird flu bringing the number of deaths of bird flu tonine cases since the beginning of the year, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.

Representatives from the Egyptian and Russian governments have begun to work out proposals for multiple joint projects in Egypt, according to Investment Minister Ashraf Salman.

Egypt was listed as one of the deadliest countries for journalists in 2014, as media watchdogs highlighted the country’s numerous violations against journalists in annual reports published on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Azbakiya Prosecution referred to the misdemeanour court on Wednesday 26 men arrested last week over holding a "gay bath house orgy".

Khaled Dawoud, spokesperson of the Dostour Party, criticized the presidency for ignoring the suggestions presented by the political parties to change the protest law, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.

Egypt's cabinet is expected to endorse the final draft of a new ‎electoral constituencies law in a meeting on Wednesday, thus ‎opening the country's long-awaited polls to be held as soon as ‎possible.

A 13-meter (42 feet) high statue of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which was broken into pieces after an earthquake in 1200 B.C., was restored and re-erected at the northern entrance of the Pharaoh’s funerary temple on the west bank of Luxor, Youm7 reported Monday.

Manpower Minister Nahed Ashry said independent trade unions have become the largest problem facing the labor market as they were established illegally and call for categorial strikes and sit-ins that hinder work progress leading to deterioration of Egyptian economy.

The Bread and Freedom Party condemned a newly-issued law to privatize university hospitals, and to establish a Higher Council to dictate the price of services.

Egypt's government and private sector representatives announced on Tuesday the creation of a start-up incubator to promote economic growth and create jobs.

Two Egyptian nationals have been killed in Libya on Monday, during clashes between rival factions present in the country.

Six people have been killed and over a dozen wounded in two separate road crashes outside Cairo, state news agency MENA reported.

Egypt’s minister of social solidarity doubled on Monday the sum of financial compensation for those who died in the sinking of a boat in the Red Sea on Sunday.

An Egyptian prosecutor has referred 40 alleged supporters of the bannedMuslim Brotherhood, including nine women, to a military court on charges related to their role in protests, judicial sources said, as the state continues to crack down on opponents.

The Supreme Administrative Court upheld on Monday a decision to ban interior ministry personnel from entering university campuses for security purposes.

At least 13 Egyptian fishermen died early Sunday after their boat sank in the Red Sea following a collision with a container ship, state media said.

Egypt's military has said it destroyed the house of a "terrorist" in Sinai along with explosive materials stored inside, as the army's crackdown on militants in the restive peninsula continues.

Kafr El-Dawar General Hospital's director and seven doctors from the same facility has been referred to court on over accusations that a patient in labour was not admitted to the state-owned hospital, thus forcing her to give birth in the street.