Challenges in the Arab region can only be overcome with Egypt and Saudi Arabia cooperating hand-in-hand, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Thursday.

The United States will deliver eight F-16 Block 52 aircraft to Egypt within the next two days, the US embassy in Cairo said in a statement on Thursday, part of a military package that had been unfrozen earlier this year.

A total of 232,468 tourists had visited museums across Egypt during the period from July 2014 to July 2015, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Amin said in a statement Wednesday.

The prosecution at the Sayeda Zeinab Misdemeanour Court decided on Wednesday to postpone the case against Fatima Naoot, who is charged with contempt of religion.

Diplomatic efforts are being made between Egypt and Sudan in order to release 101 Egyptian fisherman detained in Sudan for territorial breaches, Egypt's ambassador to Sudan, Osama Shaltout, confirmed to state news agency MENA on Thursday.

Work on Egypt's New Suez Canal is complete, Suez Canal Authority Chairman Mohab Mameesh said in a news conference on Wednesday.

Egypt’s tourism revenue rose by 3.1 percent in the first half of 2015 reaching $3.3 billion up from $3.2 billion during the same period last year, Tourism Minister Khaled Ramy said Tuesday.

Communications and Information Technology Minister Khaled Nagm promised the implementation of 4G mobile internet in Egypt by the first quarter of 2016.

Egypt’s central bank is expected to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday with inflation still in double digits, despite lower global commodity prices.

Governor of Cairo Galal Mostafa al-Saeed issued a statement Wednesday on the decision to ban tuk-tuks in downtown Cairo, as well as neighborhoods of west Cairo, including Azbakeya, Abdein, Mosky, Wayly, Bab al-She'reya and Bulaq Aboul Ela.

Egypt has condemned Tuesday’s bomb attack that killed two Bahraini policemen in the mainly Shia village of Sitra, south of the capital Manama.

Cuba, Kenya and Saudi Arabia are doing better at fighting human trafficking. Egypt, Ghana and Bulgaria are doing worse. That's according to the latest annual report from the US State Department, which rates 188 countries on their efforts to stamp out trafficking in persons.

At least 11 people were killed and 25 others were wounded Tuesday in a fire that broke out at a furniture factory in al-Obour city north of Cairo, Youm7 reported.

The incidence of Hepatitis C for people between the ages of 15 and 59 has dropped to 7 percent, down from 10 percent in 2008, Egyptian Health Minister Adel el-Adawi said on Tuesday.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced six defendants to death in absentia on charges of storming into the Ghad Al-Thawra Party’s headquarters. The court accused the defendants of possessing weapons and ammunition.

On the eastern bank of Aswan, an American-Egyptian archaeological mission at the Middle Kingdom settlement of Al-Hoody has found three engraved limestone reliefs which could be of great historical significance.

Rights advocates have recounted further alleged cases of detainees torture, with violations amounting to denial of medication.

Egypt is putting together a12 kilometer-long flag in a bid to set a new Guinness world record and promote the upcoming inauguration of the new Suez Canal project scheduled for August 6, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Strategic US-Egyptian dialogue, which has long been in the pipeline, recently faced an apparently final postponement, as the Foreign Ministry announced the talks will be held on 2 August.

Around 100,000 Egyptians are diagnosed with cancer annually, Health Minister Adel El-Adawi said on Monday.

Suez Canal Authority will hold a lottery to decide who will attend the opening ceremony of the New Suez Canal, the head of one of the companies responsible for promoting the Canal said on Sunday.