Two shipments of stolen Egyptian artefacts spanning the eras of the pharaohs and the Mamluks have been returned to Egypt, thanks to efforts from diplomatic officials.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned on Wednesday trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsy and other 35 suspects affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood over spying for foreign authorities and disclosing secrets of Egyptian national security to 17 August to include a report by the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA).

Damietta Prosecution ordered on Wednesday to remand 19 members and supporters of Muslim Brotherhood for 15 days into custody over the formation of a terrorist cell in the governorate.

The Alexandria Misdemeanour Court sentenced 50 supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi Tuesday to five years imprisonment and an EGP 20,000 fine for violating the Protest Law, according to state owned MENA.

The terrorist Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis distributed flyers on Tuesday inciting against armed forces and calling for support throughout several villages south of Sheikh Zuwaid, North Sinai.

An Alexandria court sentenced on Tuesday 50 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to five years in jail with labor after they had been convicted of rioting and breaking the protest law.

A prominent Jamaa al-Islamiya leader said Egypt will only be at peace if justice is established. "Terrorist acts will disappear if public freedoms, the rule of law and justice are established," said Jamaa al-Islamiya spokesperson Safwat Abdel Ghany. "The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is like other armed organizations that appear when tyranny and oppression dominate."

Egyptian authorities arrested Yehia Ghozlan, the son of the Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghozlan, late on Monday as he took photos of his detained brother during his transfer to prison following trial.

A governmental committee tasked with appraising the monetary assets of the Muslim Brotherhood said on Tuesday that 60 percent of Zad supermarkets have re-opened and that the government trusteeship of Seoudi's Zamalek and Mohandiseen branches has ended, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported. The committee met on Tuesday with Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehlab to discuss its task of confiscating assets belonging to the outlawed Brotherhood – deemed a terrorist organisation by authorities since last December.

Cairo Criminal Court has adjourned to 13 July the trial of deposed president Mohamed Morsi on charges of escaping from prison in 2011.

The Interior Ministry announced Monday it had arrested four alleged culprits of a train bombing that took place in a passenger car on the Abu Qir line on July 3 in Alexandria.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he wished the imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists, convicted of aiding "a terrorist group", had been deported and not put on trial, a newspaper reported on Monday.

A Cairo court has upheld death sentences against 10 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced 38 others to life in prison, including the spiritual leader of the Islamist group, Egyptian judicial officials say.

On Jan. 17, 1977, Egypt's then-Deputy Finance Minister Abdemonem al-Qaisony stood in front of the parliament to declare a number of economic policy changes. The changes were basically increasing the prices of fuel, bread and 25 other consumer goods. Those decisions were ordered by President Anwar Sadat. Back then, Sadat (who was to be assassinated four years later) was celebrated as the man who had defeated Israel and had brought Israelis to peace talks; he also believed he was invincible.

A man claiming to be the Caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, made his first public appearance at a Mosul mosque on Friday to give a sermon demanding obedience from his followers just over a week after Al-Baghdadi was announced Caliph.

An Al-Azhar University student gave her testimony on Saturday to the prosecution in an investigation into allegations that she was sexually assaulted by a policeman.

Prosecution authorities did not find any new evidence while going through security tapes while investigating the Ithadiya bombings near the presidential palace on June 30 that killing two bomb squad experts.

Thirty-seven out of 48 defendants accused of inciting violence and blocking the Qalyoub Highway last year were given life sentences Saturday.

The head of the Wasat Party, Essam Sultan, has been found innocent of charges of insulting the judiciary, a Cairo criminal court ruled on Saturday.

An 11th Dynasty chapel belonging to King Mentuhotep II was discovered on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Sohag, according to Ahram Online. Located near the large temple of King Seti I, Mentuhotep II built the chapel of limestone to honor the god Osiris after his unification with the local god of Sohag, Khenti-Amenty. Some of the engravings on the chapel’s walls have been damaged by subterranean water. “It is a very important discovery that will reveal more of the history of King Mentuhotep II,” said Minister of Antiquities and Heritage Mamdouh El-Damaty.

It was around this time last year that Amr Moussa announced that his meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood kingpin Khairat El-Shater failed to find a negotiated exit out of the political deal.