Switzerland’s federal prosecutor dropped Tuesday the charge of organised crime against former president Hosni Mubarak, aids and family members, but announced investigations into the money laundering accusation will continue.

Egypt is eyeing an increase to its trade exchange with India to US$8 billion in 2016, up from US$5.5 billion in 2014, Minister of Trade and Industry, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, said on Tuesday.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met on Sunday with the head of the National Agency for the Development of the Sinai Peninsula, a presidential statement said.

Egypt’s Finance Ministry has provided an additional budget allowance of around 4 billion EGP to cover urgent needs to the ministries of Supply, Transportation, Electricity, and Petroleum, it said in a Sunday statement.

Tens of female activists outside the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace left the area late Sunday after a one-hour protest calling for the release of political prisoners detained for breaking the notorious law on protests.

The Doctors' Syndicate has called out the Health Ministry over an administrative decision that reportedly bans doctors from publishing photos that show how hospitals are failing on Facebook.

The Egyptian government adopted the FY 2015/2016 state budget without considering providing mechanisms to include community and national stakeholders in the decision-making, independent local NGO Partners for Transparency (PFT) stated in a report Sunday.

A few dozen Egyptian women held a protest on Sunday outside Ittihadeya presidential palace to call for the release of detainees.

Egypt's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Transitional Justice Ibrahim Al-Heneidy disclosed Sunday that the justice ministry has finalised drafting a new law aimed at cracking down on terrorist crimes.

The Egyptian authorities decided on Sunday to open the Rafah crossing in both directions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, to allow the passage of humanitarian aid.

Egypt has allocated 61 billion EGP ($8 billion) for fuel subsidies in the draft of 2015/2016 fiscal year budget, chairman of State-run Egyptian General Petroleum Corp (EGPC,) Tarek el-Molla said in a Saturday statement.

The Al-Dostour Party announced Saturday four candidates as potential party chairmen as part of elections due to be held on 26 June. Elections will take place by direct vote, choosing between four candidates’ lists.

The first air-conditioned subway train has come into operation on Cairo's oldest metro line, part of a plan to bring some 20 such trains into action in the city.

Egypt stopped the sale of a 2,700 year-old Egyptian statue that was put up for sale in a Germany-based auction hall, the Antiquities Ministry’s Restored Artifacts Department (RAD) head Aly Ahmed told The Cairo Post Sunday.

Egypt's revenues from the Suez Canal continued to fall in May for the third consecutive month, reaching US$449.6 million, compared to $471.1 million in May last year, according to the Suez Canal Authority.

The Egyptian government has remained silent on the Israeli minister of energy’s statements that Egypt has to import gas from Tel Aviv at approximately $7-$8 per million thermal units.

Former president Mohamed Morsi's Constitutional Declaration in November 2012, as well the rapid increase in death sentences issued after the ouster of Morsi in 2013, largely contributed to delaying the process of retrieving the Mubarak regime's frozen assets in Switzerland, according to Swiss officials.

U.S. ambassador to Cairo Stephen Beecroft said he is “impressed” by establishing the New Suez Canal ahead of the expected schedule, he said Tuesday in press statements.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi pardoned Wednesday 165 prisoners, including minors, convicted of breaching the 2013 protest law, according to a Wednesday presidential statement.

Qatari Al-Jazeera channel has paid “millions of dollars” on the trial of its journalists in Egypt to “wage a war” against the country, former Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy claimed in a Tuesday interview with Al-Youm channel.

Egyptian national security forces arrested Mohamed Battawy, a journalist at newspaper Akhbar Al-Youm, without charges on Wednesday. Khaled al-Balshy, head of journalism freedom committee at the Journalists Syndicate, told Egypt Independent.