A child was killed and five people were injured after a two-storey house built with bricks collapsed in Qena governorate.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will visit Cairo Sunday to take part in the Gaza reconstruction conference, state-run MENA reported Thursday.

Former Egyptian vice-president Mohamed ElBaradei has declined to give testimony before a panel created by former interim president Adly Mansour to investigate the bloody violence that followed the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsy in July 2013.

The family of imprisoned Egyptian-American duel citizen Mohamed Sultan—who has been on hunger strike for over 250 days in Egyptian prison—has called on the U.S to intercede to pressure Egypt to release him, according to news reports.

Prominent political activist Ahmed Douma remains in Qasr El-Aini hospital on Thursday after being admitted earlier this week.

Egypt will only deal with the government appointed by the elected representatives of the Libya people, the Egyptian prime minister has said. He has also said that Egypt will fully collaborate with Libya on security issues. Egypt’s security was Libya’s security, he said, and Libya’s security was likewise Egypt’s.

More than two million pilgrims, according to official statistics of Saudi authorities, performed the Jamarat ritual in Mina on Sunday, as part of the Hajj.

Mokattam road will be closed for three days to remove dangerous rocks on both sides,Cairo governor Galal Saeed stated Wednesday.

The pre-trial detention of 179 suspects detained in August 2013 was renewed for 45 days Wednesday by Cairo Criminal Court, reported Youm7.

Al-Wafd Party, one of Egypt’s oldest popular liberal parties, plans to organize a protest Oct.12 in front of the Turkish embassy in Cairo to demand an economic boycott of the country following the Turkish president’s recent remarks on Egypt, the party stated in a press release Tuesday.

Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said Wednesday there is no national dialogue with any group that rejects the legitimacy of the Parliament and government.

Egypt will sign a trade and industry cooperation agreement with Kuwait in November, state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday, citing the Egyptian minister of industry and trade.

Egypt's army killed 16 militants from the Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis jihadist group early Tuesday as it continues its operation to rein in extremists in the restive Sinai Peninsula, Aswat Masriya reported.

Business in Egypt has expanded, marked by the first rise in staffing levels in nearly two-and-a-half years in September, with output and new orders rising sharply, an HSBC report showed on Tuesday.

Secretary of State John Kerry will take part in a conference on rebuilding Gaza, devastated by a 50-day war with Israel earlier this year, a US official said Monday.

Artistic performances in public spaces are not new to Egypt; many folkoric arts used to take place in the street, including the aragoz (an Egyptian puppet show), moulids (street festivals) and the wonderbox (a puppet show inside an enclosed box complete with peepholes, providing visuals to accompany a story being recited).

The Ministry of Manpower has received 64,000 compensation claims from Egyptian workers who fled Libya in 2014 due to ongoing violence, according to a Sunday ministry statement.

A joint South Korean-Saudi delegation will visit Cairo in October to finish all required preparation for establishing a $6 billion solar plant in the Wadi Gedid governorate, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Egyptian security forces in the Suez Canal city of Port Said say they have uncovered a recruitment cell for the radical militant group Islamic State (IS).

Egypt will participate in the Tenth Meeting of the Trade Negotiations Forum with three African blocs scheduled to take place in Burundi this October.

British gas producer BG Group said on Monday it had received $350 million from the Egyptian government following a commitment by Cairo to repay outstanding debts to the energy industry.