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.

The annual headline inflation rate in Egypt currently stands at 8.38 percent, a reduction from June’s rate of 11.39 percent, according to a Monday statement from the central bank.

The Lawyers Syndicate held an emergency meeting on Monday after a Minya court sentenced eight lawyers to life over charges of insulting a judge.

The Egyptian Children’s Cancer Hospital (57357) will train 600 physicians from Nile Basin Countries over the upcoming three years, said President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi during his meeting with editors-in-chief of various African newspapers Monday.

Nineteen people died Monday and 92 others were hospitalised with heat exhaustion as sweltering temperatures continue to batter Egypt, the health ministry said, driving the death toll of this week's heatwave to at least 40.

The Electricity Ministry said Tuesday that the sudden power outages that took place in several parts of Cairo and Giza could be traced back to a malfunction in a transformer unit inside western Cairo’s electricity station.

Towards A Fair Labor Law campaign says it backs protests by workers at the Finance Ministry outside the Journalists Syndicate on Monday, which is voicing discontent with several articles in the civil service law.

North Cairo Criminal Court has rejected Monday a complaint submitted by Egyptian Steel Tycoon Ahmed Ezz to lift a freeze order on his assets, Youm7 reported.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met with British Gas Group Chief Executive Officer Helge Lund Monday to discuss the group’s plan to increase investments in Egypt, Youm7 reported.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that his government is "committed" to paying up debts to oil and gas companies "operating on its soil."

The Ministry of Social Solidarity has decided to grant EGP 5,000 as compensations and EGP 300 as monthly subsistence allowance for the stranded families in Imbaba, following the collapse of a building in the neighbourhood, said Social Solidarity Minister Ghada Wali.

China could play a role in several major developmental projects in Egypt, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's office has said, after El-Sisi met on Saturday with the Chinese culture minister, who was sent to Cairo as a special envoy on behalf of President Xi Jinping.

Marstal Maersk; the world’s largest container ship has crossed Egypt’s New Suez Canal Sunday, coming from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, Al-Ahram Online reported.

Egypt's foreign ministry has rejected statements by the Qatari foreign minister suggesting that Egypt should have a political dialogue which includes all parties.

The Egyptian central bank kept the pound unchanged from 7.73 against the dollar in Sunday's auction, after allowing it to depreciate twice last month.

Twenty-eight people were hospitalised due to heat exhaustion on Saturday after a wave of hot weather, Egypt's Ministry of Health stated.

Egypt unveiled on Thursday a major extension of the Suez Canal that President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has billed as an historic achievement needed to boost the country's ailing economy after years of unrest.

The Engineering Department of the Armed Forces completed on Wednesday the demolishing of the National Democratic Party (NDP) building that was located a few meters away from Tahrir Square, amid the cheering of passersby.

A 30-day-exhibition entitled "Antiquities on the banks of the Suez Canal" opened Tuesday at the Ismailia Museum, in accordance with the Ministry of Antiquities’ celebration of the official opening of the new Suez Canal waterway.