Egypt’s government is working on slashing the budget deficit to 8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the coming four years, Youm7 quoted Minister of Investment Ashraf Salman Sunday.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved on Thursday the new governors' reshuffle proposed by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb, the presidential spokesman announced.

Cairo's central Sadat metro station will reopen soon after being closed for a year and half, the head of police transportation police, Major Gen. El-Sayed Gad has told Ahram Online.

Spokesperson for the Egyptian interior ministry Hany Abdel Latif said late Wednesday that the numbers of detainees arrested under the widely criticised protest law are 301, whose trials are pending, state newsagency MENA reported.

High-level delegation is expected to arrive Egypt Feb.9 along with the Russian president Vladimir Putin including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Youm7 reported.

Egypt's latest spate of measures against its foreign currency black market cannot succeed without an immediate increase in the liquidity its foreign currency, economists and traders told Ahram Online.

Six Egyptian military personnel in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Ivory Coast died in a car accident resulting from bad weather, according to a Wednesday Ministry of Defense statement.

Ahmed Doma was sentenced to life in prison by the Cairo Criminal Court Wednesday, for charges dating from 2011, in what is known as the Cabinet clashes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Egypt on 9 February for a two-day visit by invitation of his Egyptian counterpart President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, according to the presidential spokesman Wednesday.

Egypt criticised on Wednesday the Turkish condemnation of the recent ratification of death sentences by an Egyptian court.

Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste has returned to the Australian city of Brisbane to be reunited with his family, following his release on Sunday from an Egyptian prison. Mr Greste was arrested along with two colleagues in 2013. They were convicted

Airport authorities in Cairo tightened security on Tuesday after two bombs were discovered near the terminal, according to security officials speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak with journalists.

Egypt’s 25 January Revolution left Egypt’s modern history with many unanswered questions. Who opened the prisons and released scores of prisoners? Who torched police stations? Where did the police go on the night of 28 January? Who were the thousands of armed men who attacked protesters in Tahrir Square on 2 February, 2011? Or, more precisely, who let the camels out?

A columnist at a widely-distributed, independent newspaper has urged Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to adopt a fascist stance in dealing with terrorist threats as the latest episode in bloody attacks on security forces claimed the lives of at least 27 soldiers in North Sinai.

A number of political party leaders said that the 25 January revolution has stalled in achieving its core objectives of freedom and social justice, and that it was kidnapped by the Muslim Brotherhood, but the people returned to the streets in the 30 June revolution to correct the situation.

Egypt strongly condemned on Tuesday the killing of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic state fighters, describing it as "cowardly" and "barbaric," Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

Egypt’s industry federation has lauded the government’s plans to import natural gas from Israel, describing the step as economically beneficial.

The Giza Criminal Court ratified on Monday death sentences served to 183 defendants accused of killing policemen in Giza's Kerdasa neighbourhood in 2013, after consulting Egypt's Grand Mufti.

Egypt's foreign ministry is seeking to shut down satellite channels it says are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and urged countries not to deal with Brotherhood-linked groups, the ministry said in statements issued on Sunday.

Two women were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while another died in crossfire between militants and security forces in two separate incidents in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, security and medical sources said on Sunday.

The High Elections Commission has decided to open 141 electoral committees at embassies and consulates worldwide.