The Journalists Syndicate will convene to discuss restrictions and penalties imposed on reporters as part of the new counterterrorism law adopted by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi late Sunday.

The mother of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi died early Monday at Galaa Military Hospital in Heliopolis, presidential sources told Youm7.

The unemployment rate in Egypt dropped in the second quarter of 2015 to 12.7 percent, moving down from 12.8 percent in the first quarter, the statistics agency revealed on Monday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and protects its enforcers in the face of a two-year-long Islamist insurgency that aims to topple his government.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi called on political parties on Sunday to choose their candidates carefully for anticipated parliamentary elections.

Egypt’s national weather forecaster has predicted that the current heatwave, which has to date claimed the lives of 95 people, will gradually decline starting Tuesday.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab set controls Sunday, to regulate investments in Lake Nasser (Upper Egypt) and boost development of fisheries through the ministries of agriculture, housing, environment, planning and irrigation.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi gave a speech Sunday addressing a number of local issues, in a meeting with army forces and public figures.

Egypt is looking to add 500,000 new Internet users by the end of 2015 and increase its internet penetration rate to 50 percent from 34 percent by the end of 2016, communication minister Khaled Ali Negm said.

Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said his country could not confirm that a Croatian national abducted by an Islamic State affiliate in Egypt had been murdered, after an image of a decapitated body circulated online Wednesday.

Transport Ministry said it will conduct random drugs test for train and metro drivers “in the interest of the safety of the public,” Youm7 reported Wednesday.

The government has voiced persistence in maintaining a law regulating the work of its public servants, defying massive protests demanding to revoke the law enacted in March.

A counter-terrorism draft law approved by the Cabinet last month will receive final approval from Egypt’s presidency within hours, Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zend told reporters at the Cabinet’s building on Wednesday.

Heads of Cairo districts will be able to arrest citizens committing violations, following a decision by the Justice Ministry to allow local officials the power of judicial police, Cairo Governor Galal Saeed told state-run media Al-Ahram Tuesday.

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has ordered the creation of a special economic zone surrounding the Suez Canal, part of a long planned ambitious project to develop the area adjacent to the strategic waterway into an industrial hub.

Since Sunday, 61 people have died from the debilitating heatwave that has swept through Egypt. The Health Ministry announced in a statement Tuesday that 581 people suffering from heat-related issues had been admitted to hospitals nationwide on that day alone.

Cairo governor Saeed Mostafa has issued a decision to confiscate all tuk tuks that are detected twice in downtown Cairo districts.

A total of 85 labor protest cases have been reported across Egypt so far in 2015, compared to 287 cases in 2014, Manpower Minister Nahed Ashry was quoted by Youm7 Tuesday.

The Press Freedom Committee (PFC) at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate will meet today to discuss the two-year imprisonment of photojournalist Mahmoud Shawkan, which has passed the legal maximum detainment set by law.

Egypt's interior minister ordered an investigation on Wednesday into assault of a citizen at the hands of policemen inside a metro station, a ministry official said.

The new civil service law has triggered wide protests by civil servants, while the government insists on issuing it with possible amendments later to its bylaws.