Journalists are facing "unprecedented threats" in Egypt, a media watchdog said Thursday, with a record number behind bars mostly over links with the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.

Manpower Minister Nahed Ashry said the total amount of emergency aid disbursed to companies at risk of bankrupcy reached LE35,336,000, helping 32,245 workers.

Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel Ghaffar met with the US and UK ambassadors on Tuesday afternoon to discuss security in Egypt and across the region.

Egypt has jumped nine places to rank 137th out of 162 countries surveyed for the Institute for Economics and Peace’s Global Peace Index (GPI)2015, which ranks the countries of the world according to their level of peacefulness.

Southeastern Asset Management (SAM) investment fund working with Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris said on Wednesday it has snapped up a 3 percent stake in Sika.

Egypt's ministry of supply is working on a plan to decrease the time spent offloading wheat cargoes from 12 days to five or six days to save on hard currency, the minister said on Wednesday.

The Cairo Criminal Court has postponed the trial of Safwat al-Sharif, the former Shura Council speaker, and his two sons Ihab (released pending trial) and Ashraf (fugitive) to August 23. They are charged with abusing their influence to achieve illicit gains.

In a meeting with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Tuesday, Justice Minister Ahmed El-Zend revealed his intention to computerise the country's judicial system.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called Monday for combating cheating at schools and producing new curricula against violence and harassment, said presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef in a statement Monday.

A Cairo court acquitted Egyptian TV host Ahmed Moussa of insulting and defaming writer and former chief of the Democratic Front party Osama El-Ghazali Harb on Tuesday.

Egypt opened the Rafah land crossing on its borders with the Palestinian Gaza Strip on Tuesday, allowing traffic in both directions and the passage of travellers stranded on both sides.

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.