More than 250 senior banking officials have resigned since the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) along with public banks decided to apply the new Maximum Wage Law, effective from July 2014, according to a Youm7 analysis published Wednesday.

Details on the timeline of the parliamentary elections and the date of the opening of a window to declare candidacy will be announced Thursday during a news conference, announced a Tuesday statement by the Egyptian High Elections Committee (HEC).

Egypt and the United States’ need mutual trust and improved military cooperation for Cairo to be able to combat surging terrorism, said Steven A. Cook a member at the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations.

Police officer Diaa Aboul Fotouh died of injuries while he was defusing a bomb near the Talbiya Police Department on Haram Street. He had been taken to hospital and was in serious condition.

The Sohag Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced the former deputy sheriff of the Saqalta Police Station to three years in prison, another police officer and two police corporals to life imprisonment in absentia, and eight other policemen to 10 years, all for assaulting the judiciary and storming the Saqalta Prosecution headquarters.

The Popular Current Party, initially founded by leftist politician and former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, will not officially participate in the coming parliamentary elections, it announced on Tuesday.

Egypt's Foreign Ministry urged on Monday foreign journalists operating in the country to "exercise caution, fact-check circulating information and confirm it through official sources before publishing."

Security forces have raised the security measures to the highest levels all over the country, in conjunction with Coptic Christmas celebrations in the different governorates, Youm7 reported.

The official Moroccan TV Channel One has triggered tension in the relations between Egypt and Morocco last Thursday when it said in the evening news that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi led a coup against the elected president Mohamed Morsy.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi arrived in Kuwait on Monday morning, his first official visit to the Gulf state since his election last year.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi was chosen as the “best political figure” for 2014 according to The Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera) Monday, in which Sisi garnered a 54 percent vote.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and other seven ministers and a number of media hosts, journalists and artists signed Monday a document pledging to protect the Nile water.

The Administrative Prosecution Authority has demanded that two ministries in the government supervise the educational curricula taught at nurseries under NGO management “to prevent false and radical content,” Youm7 reported Sunday.

Al-Jazeera called for the swift release of three of its journalists detained in Egypt for more than a year, after the top appeal court on Thursday ordered a retrial.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for "revamping religious speech in accordance with the tolerant Islamic religion" during a Thursday speech celebrating the birth of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Leftist politician and former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi announced on Thursday his intention to file a complaint against an Egyptian private-owned satellite channel and its presenter for "spreading false news".

Egypt’s cabinet approved on Wednesday amendments to the law governing universities in a manner which adds new conditions for expelling faculty members, including the involvement in partisan activities.

One-hundred and fifty-five students at the al-Azhar University’s female dorm in Assiut complained from food poisoning symptoms, the ministry of health said on Thursday.

One-hundred and fifty-five students at the al-Azhar University’s female dorm in Assiut complained from food poisoning symptoms, the ministry of health said on Thursday.

Egypt’s cabinet approved on Wednesday amendments to the law governing universities in a manner which adds new conditions for expelling faculty members, including the involvement in partisan activities.

Leftist politician and former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi announced on Thursday his intention to file a complaint against an Egyptian private-owned satellite channel and its presenter for "spreading false news".