Relations with Arab states are above all interests, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Sunday, answering questions on the future of Egyptian-Qatari relations as a Saudi-backed initiative managed to partially improve severed ties between both Arab countries.

Five people were killed Sunday and nine others injured in a road crash on a highway northwest of Cairo, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Minister of International Cooperation Nagla al-Ahwani signed with French Ambassador to Egypt Andre Baran on Sunday a financial cooperation agreement to the value of seven million dollars to finance the replacement of navigation systems in Taba Airport.

Four people were killed and 27 others wounded in a car accident in the early hours of Thursday morning on the Cairo-Alexandria Desert road, disrupting traffic for an hour 53 kilometers outside of Cairo.

Dr. Yehia al-Shazly, a spokesperson for the National Committee to Combat Viral Hepatitis, said that five new Sovaldi dismemberment centers were added to bring the total number to 21 centers nationwide. The locations for the centers to disburse the Hepatitis C-treating drug are the Ahmed Maher hospitals in Cairo, the Aswan Fever Hospital, the Damanhur Hospital in Beheira, the Shebin fever hospital in Menoufiya and the Suez Fever Hospital.

Katherine Magdy, an 18-year-old woman orphaned in Libya after her parents were killed there Tuesday, is missing, and Egyptian authorities say the Libyan rump state government in Tobruk has been unable to account for her whereabouts, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Badr Abdel Atty Wednesday.

An Egyptian official denied on Thursday widespread reports claiming that El-Baron Empain's palace in Heliopolis has been sold.

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird will visit Egypt in January to discuss bilateral relations and push for the release of the imprisoned Egyptian – Canadian Al-Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy.

“It is golden age for the bond between the army, the police and the judiciary,” said Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim at the memorial service of the Martyrs of the Daqahliya Security Directorate bombing on Wednesday. “This is an unprecedented bond, and we will achieve security and safety for the Egyptian people.”

Port Said Criminal Court adjourned Wednesday the trial of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 190 other defendants in the case of storming a Port Said police station to 14 January.

President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi ratified Monday the electoral districts law after its cabinet approval earlier this month.

The number of tourists visiting Egypt increased by 79.5 percent in October 2014 compared with October in 2013, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), Egypt’s official statistical agency.

Egyptian and Qatari intelligence officials met in Cairo to discuss a possible reconciliation as part of Saudi efforts to broker an end to the 18-month standoff over Doha's support of the Muslim Brotherhood, security sources said.

We are sceptical but we are going to see; if they keep their word then well and good; we will remain cautious however,” said a senior Egyptian diplomat in remarks shared with Ahram Online on the Egyptian-Qatari rapprochement.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree that approves raising the military pension by 15 percent, presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef said in a statement Tuesday.

The pipeline that carries natural gas to Jordan through Egypt’s North Sinai was struck by an explosion Tuesday for the 27th month since the January 25 Revolution that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak, Youm7 reported.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will sign Tuesday a strategic partnership agreement with China in addition to a number of memorandums of understanding (MoU) in economic, transportation, education, and environment fields for the period from 2015 to 2017 , according to the official state news agency, MENA.

Samia Al-Gendy, the mother of Mohamed Al-Gendy, who died in February 2013 from wounds he received after being arresting during marches commemorating the January 25 Revolution, announced to Al-Shorouq Sunday she intends to run in the coming parliamentary elections.

Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr, a Doha-based broadcaster owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, has ceased broadcasting today based on the Egyptian-Qatari reconciliation

The Tagamu Party, Ghad Party and Conference Party withdrew from the Egyptian Front, an alliance of political parties that will run in the 2014 parliamentary elections, after they failed to agree on candidate lists.

The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) has ordered political satirist Bassem Youssef and his producing company to pay compensation worth of 100 million Egyptian pounds for the satellite network which cancelled his show last year.