Egypt's Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi declared a state of extreme emergency at his ministry due to the capsizing of a barge carrying 500 tons of phosphate in Upper Egypt's Qena.

Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab traveled on Monday night to Indonesia's capital Jakarta, leading the Egyptian delegation at the 6th Asian-African summit which takes place every ten years, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

The Canadian government said on Monday it is now able to issue a passport to Mohamed Fahmy, the Al Jazeera journalist and naturalised Canadian who had been jailed in Egypt and is awaiting retrial there.

Panos Kammenos, the Minister of Defense of Greece, arrived Monday to Egypt in an official visit, along with General Michail Kostarakos, the Hellenic Army officer, and Varemenos Georgios, the Standing Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs Chief, and met with Egyptian Defense Minister Sedhki Sobhi, Youm7 reported.

The Giza Criminal Court ratified on Monday death sentences served to 22 defendants for breaking into the Kerdasa Police Station in July 2013.

The Minister of Finance, Hany Kadry Dimian said Egypt intends to issue Eurobonds by the end of May 2015.

Firebrand Armenian belly dancer Safinaz was sentenced to 6 months in prison and a 10,000 EGP ($1,310) fine on charges of insulting the Egyptian flag Monday, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's cabinet postponed on Monday the application of a law governing the implementation of daylight saving time, after a poll conducted revealed a desire to cancel it.

Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman says he never heard of European self-proclaimed state Liberland, warning Egyptians of possible embezzlements while seeking to immigrate.

Egypt’s interior ministry said it would take “legal action” against what it said was an “unprofessional” news report in a private daily criticising police practices, in a statement it released on Sunday.

Ruins of the 5,200 year-old enclosure wall, once surrounded Egypt’s most ancient capital city of Memphis, has been unearthed, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said in a statement Saturday.

Minister of Trade and Industry Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour announced Sunday an eight percent anti-dumping tariff on each ton of imported steel (around 408 EGP, or $53/ton) for three years, MENA reported.

The Port Said Criminal Court sentenced 11 defendants to death, whilst postponing the case’s final verdict to a 30 May session.

Digging operations for a new stage of the third metro line in Cairo began on Thursday, the cabinet said in a statement.

The Antiquities Ministry's decision to demolish a Hellenistic-era archaeological site in Alexandria was carried out on Thursday, destroying the ancient ruins and leveling the area into a flat lot.

Egyptian journalist Sherif Choubachy has called for women who wear the Muslim veil join in a protest in Tahrir Square to remove their hijabs in the first week of May.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab inaugurated Thursday digging work on first part of the fourth phase of the Greater Cairo Metro Network Line 3 project, Youm7 reported.

The draft of Egypt’s first anti-cybercrime law was finalized by the Ministry of Justice and will be sent to the State Council for revision before ratification by the president.

Monday’s celebration of the traditional Egyptian spring holiday Sham el-Nessim witnessed a “significant decrease” in sexual harassment incidents, which were mostly limited to catcalling, according to an I Saw Harassment report.

Culture Minister Abdel Wahed al-Nabawy has said that remarks he made on a stout museum curator were intended to be humorous, stressing that his remarks, which the lady referred to in a complaint she shared on Facebook, “were taken out of context”.

The U.N. Security Council has approved an arms embargo on leaders of Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels and their key supporters, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his son.