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.

Two explosive devices detoned late Friday in Fayoum, south of the Nile Delta, near the local traffic department, causing damage to parked cars and slightly injuring a police cadet.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has announced plans to double investments in scientific research sector as pursuant to the constitution, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said.

Americans support the regime in Egypt, the Egyptian Constitution and believe in the need to achieve stability, said Former Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi left Jordan on Thursday evening after meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced political activist Ahmed Douma to three years hard labour for being in contempt of the court, during a session of his ongoing trial relating to the “cabinet clashes” in 2011.

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed on Thursday the trial of political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and 23 otherdefendants accused of violating last year's protest law to December 14.

Egyptians wishing to travel to Turkey or Iraq are now required to get security approval from passport control authorities.

A former Ministry of Health official along with five doctors, 36 nurses and two hospital managers will be tried for negligence related to hepatitis C infections among patients in a Sharqia hospital in 2010, according to the Ministry of Health.

The consultant on a project to develop the Suez Canal says cumbersome Egyptian government bureaucracy could hamper its chances of success.

Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty headed to Berlin Wednesday to represent Egypt in “Cultural Heritage in Danger: Illicit excavations and trade” international conference scheduled for Dec. 11-12, according to a statement on the ministry’s Facebook page.

Egypt's cabinet approved on Wednesday the electoral constituencies law, the final legal step necessary before the parliamentary vote expected mid next year.