The Salafi Nour Party announced Tuesday they would not participate in any demonstrations during the fourth anniversary of the January 25Revolution, Youm7 reported.

A man committed suicide on Tuesday by jumping off a metro platform as a train arrived, a metro spokesman has said.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi announced Monday the government is preparing a list of arrested activists and journalists to be released during the fourth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution,Youm7 reported.

Qatar's emir will attend an economic summit due to take place in Egypt in mid-March, sources from both countries said on Monday, in a sign of easing political tension between the Arab states.

The public prosecutor ordered the detention of a worker for four days pending investigation into charges of harassing a girl in a bus in Nasr City.

Family members of 20 Egyptians kidnapped in Libya held a protest outside the United Nations office in Cairo on Monday, calling for the involvement of the international community.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said there are no planned meetings between him and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in an interview Sunday with Sky News Arabia, adding “as I said before, we will wait and see.”

Since the official start of the registration process on 12 January, the Ministry of Solidarity issued permits for 43 Egyptian NGOs to observe the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to Ayman Abdel Gawad, general manager of NGOs at the ministry.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Sunday that there are “no restrictions” on the freedom of expression in Egypt, adding that the standards Western countries promote concerning freedom of expression do not match Egypt's current situation.

A 50-million-dollar agreement was signed on Sunday between Egypt's Holding Company for Tourism, Hotels & Cinema and France's Prisme sound and light company to develop the sound and light show at the Pyramids.

A meeting on Saturday evening at the headquarters of Al-Wafd Party did not deliver its aspired objective of a large coalition to contest around one third of the seats in the upcoming parliamentary elections due in a little over eight weeks.

Liberal Egyptian parties filed new judicial complaints against former ruler Hosni Mubarak on Sunday, over a deadly camel attack against protesters led by his supporters, after a string of court rulings in his favour.

Film fans bid an emotional farewell Sunday to Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, a star of Arabic cinema and ex-wife of Omar Sharif, who was buried at her family cemetery in Cairo.

Workers from the Holding Company for Spinning and Weaving in Mahalla returned to work Saturday after a four-day strike, after receiving promises by the administration to pay late profit shares, and to look into other demands, Mohamed Assad, a worker in the company said.

The National Council for Woman (NCW) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the ministries of Justice, Interior and Foreign Affairs geared up efforts to draw up an action plan targeted specifically at eliminating the widespread phenomenon of violence against women

The manager of the Rabeh orphanage in Wadi el-Natroun has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of exploiting children and making them work as beggars, Youm7 reported.

The Foreign Ministry condemned a European Parliament decision slamming Egypt’s human rights record, saying such “approach that does not serve the support of the bilateral relations between Egypt and the European Union.”

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri travelled to Rabat on Thursday amid recently strained relations between the two countries, diplomatic sources said.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will meet with British Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Tobias Ellwood on Thursday, Egypt's presidential office said in a statement. The British MP is on a three-day visit to Egypt, leading the largest British trade mission

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is in Egypt on a two day trip to meet political and religious leaders, including President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi continued meeting with a second group of political party leaders Tuesday to discuss their role in the upcoming phase ahead of parliamentary elections in March.