Sixteen human rights advocacy groups have condemned jail terms issued against renowned secular activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 others for taking part into protests against military trials back in 2013.

Manpower and Immigration Minister Nahed al-Ashry said there are 500,000 to 800,000 Egyptians working in Libya, mostly in farms and the service sector.

A first batch of detainees promised by President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to be released “soon” include 140 who are mostly accused of violating the 2013 Protest Law, Hafez Abu Saeda, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, told The Cairo Post Wednesday.

Two men died Tuesday night inside the detention room of the Matariya Police Station, with the families of the deceased accusing the police of torture.

Egypt’s High Constitutional Court set March 1 to issue its ruling whether the new parliament election law is constitutional.

The government has approved starting the application of smart cards for the distribution of butane gas, having claimed the system’s success in subsidized bread distribution.

The Constitutional Court decided Tuesday not follow a ruling issued earlier by the Cassation Court which obligates Constitutional Court head Adly Mansour to disclose judges’ salaries, Youm7 reported.

The foreign ministry spokesperson on Tuesday expressed his "extreme astonishment and discontent" at the "false information" in an Amnesty International report claiming that seven civilians were killed by Egyptian airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Derna, eastern Libya, last week.

Twelve experts from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia started on Monday evaluating four technical offers by international consulting firms ahead of declaring the winner who will prepare and carry out the studies of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in no more than 12 months.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi meet Tuesday morning with Nabil al-Araby, Secretary General of the Arab League, discussing the topics that will be tackled during the coming summit scheduled in March.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has issued a new law that gives a broad definition of "terrorist entities", part of a sustained government campaign to fight terrorism, the government's official bulletin announced on Tuesday.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will travel to Moscow on Tuesday for a two-day visit, Russian state international news service Sputnik reported.

A number of young activists have been jailed over violating the law regulating protests in Egypt, most notably Ahmed Douma, Ahmed Maher, Omar Hazeq, Yara Islam, Sanaa Seif and Alaa Abdel Fattah.

The trial of two Al Jazeera journalists was suspended until March 8 Monday; the defendants are to remain released until their trial date.

Around 12,000 to 13,000 Egyptians have returned home after fleeing Libya through the Salloum border, said head of the security directorate in Egypt's western governorate of Marsa Matrouh, near the Libyan border.

The French newspaper L’Opinion published a picture on Sunday by French web site developer Gaëtan posted on his Avions Legendaires site, celebrating the Rafale aircraft deal between Egypt and France.

Egypt's president says the need for a joint Arab military force is growing every day as the region is faced with the threat of Islamic militancy.

Mohamed Hamouda, steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz's lawyer told Aswat Masriya that he will appeal his elimination from the parliamentary elections before the Administrative Court.

Egypt has raised sales taxes on cigarettes for the third time in a year, according to a presidential decree published in the country's official gazette on Saturday.

The upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled to begin on 22 March, is facing a new judicial challenge, judicial sources confirmed Sunday.

The Higher Election Committee announced on Sunday that as many as 7,416 candidates had successfully ‎registered to contest Egypt's upcoming parliamentary ‎elections.