Two adults and a child were injured on Monday when an improvised explosive device detonated in Upper Egypt's Aswan governorate near a security forces camp.

The April 6 youth movement and the April 6 democratic front political groups resorted to holding a conference on Monday in the desert after the event was refused by "all" potential venues, a leading member of one group said.

The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development plans to lend Egypt $1.5 billion over the next five years, extending $300 million each year, the fund's director-general Abdulwahab al-Bader told Reuters on Tuesday.

An unemployed man killed his mother on Tuesday in Damat village, Gharbiya governorate, after she refused to give him money to buy drugs.

A consultant office to technically supervise the construction of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is expected to be selected during a visit by Egyptian Minister of Irrigation Hossam Moghazy to Addis Ababa this week.

A decision to build a youth center in Agouza Park was canceled after residents of the Cairo district submitted complaints about the project, according to a Tuesday statement by Giza governor Khaled al-Adly.

Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, president of Yemen's Revolutionary Council, has said that remarks by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, after his meeting with the Supreme Council of Armed Forces on Saturday, were ‘positive’, appreciating Sisi’s call for political dialogue in Yemen. He also hoped for more support in this regard, away from military action.

The first stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections could begin before the middle of June, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Transitional Justice ‎Ibrahim El-Heneidy ‎said on Monday.

A civil association will be investigated over honoring the mother of a killer of a 5-yr-old girl, according to the Ministry of Solidarity on Monday.

Egypt will receive a part of pledged Gulf deposits in the coming two weeks, Investment Minister Ashraf Salman said during a Monday event at the American Chamber of Commerce.

Egypt will no longer allow tourists from certain countries to obtain a visa on arrival at the airport "within six to eight months" said the country's tourism ministry on Tuesday.

Egypt's ministry of interior on Sunday called on citizens to report police abuses, a move that comes amid continuing documentation of alleged human rights violations in places of police detention.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab held on Saturday evening a meeting to review plans to develop Port Said governorate in the trade, industrial and tourism fields.

Two 4,200 year-old tombs of ancient Egyptian high priests were unearthed at the site of Tabit el-Geish, south of the Step Pyramid at Sakkara, according to the Antiquities Ministry’s statement Friday.

The Egyptian stock exchange and all banks operating in the country are to close on 12 and 13 April, reported Al-Ahram Arabic news website.

One policeman has been killed and two civilians injured in an explosion on the Zamalek exit of the 15 May Bridge in Cairo, a health ministry spokesman has told Ahram Online.

A total of 106 prisoners have been selected to be released into society, per a presidential decree pardoning prisoners with final sentences, Youm7 reported Thursday.

Egypt's Court of Cassation postponed on Thursday its decision on ordering a retrial for former President Hosni Mubarak over complicity in the killing of protesters during the 18-day January 2011 uprising which toppled his regime.

Egypt on Thursday postponed the date it would stop issuing on-arrival visas for individual travellers until an online visa system is put in place, a foreign ministry spokesman told Ahram Online.

President of the Reform and Development Party Mohamed Esmat al-Sadat expects the government to respond to the proposals of political forces and would hold elections as soon as possible in line with the the Supreme Constitutional Court's recommendations.

An officer was ordered jailed for 24 hours for smoking during a Thursday court session of 2013 riots at the U.S. embassy; Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata said the policeman “would smoke Shisha next time” if he went unpunished, Youm7 reported.