Security forces have foiled an attack on an important tourist site in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, killing two militants and injuring a third, the interior ministry has announced.

A total of 17.2 percent of Egypt’s youth aged 15-29 years old wish to emigrate and live abroad, according to a 2014 survey carried out by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).

Transport Minister Hani Dahy has announced that the African Economic Blocs Summit has put forward a plan for a railway line to connect the African continent. “It will help transportation and trade between the countries of the continent,” he said.

The 6 April Youth Movement is due to lead a strike Thursday as sweeping arrests target activists associated with the group.

Egypt's annual inflation rate stood last month at 13.5 percent, a significant rise from the 8.2 percent it recorded during the same month last year, the state's official statistics agency reported on Wednesday.

Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi was sworn in as Egypt’s second-democratically elected president on 8 June 2014, less than one year after he led the popular ouster of his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi.

The licenses of four international schools have been revoked over financial and “administrative irregularities,” sources at Egypt’s Education Ministry told Youm7 Tuesday.

The Egyptian government on Tuesday dismissed a report that accused it of widespread human rights violations as politicized and lacking in objectivity and accuracy.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced Tuesday it has covered 50 Percent of foreign investors’ pending backlog, through direct sales to investors’ custodians, amid efforts to ensure the domestic market’s efficiency and strength.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb was shocked at he state of Egypt's deteriorating health care system during his recent visit to local public hospitals, highlighting an on-going issue of funding neglect.

President Barak Obama’s administration has submitted the Congress a report criticizing Egypt’s democratic trajectory.

US-based Human Rights Watch has urged Western countries to abstain from supporting the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, citing what it views as human rights abuses committed during his one-year rule.

A campaign demanding the release of political prisoners has counted 163 forced disappearances of activists since April, adding to escalating warnings by rights advocacy groups in that respect over the last several weeks.

The petroleum sector is currently implementing projects worth $9.4 billion, in addition to projects that have been completed, Egypt's petroleum minister said on Monday.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Cairo Sunday in a two-day visit to discuss regional issues with a number of officials, Youm7 reported.

A vice-warden was sentenced to three months of imprisonment on Sunday and a lawyer was sentenced to a month after a disagreement between them sparked a lawyer's strike.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi apologised on Sunday to Egyptian lawyers after one of them was physically assaulted by a policeman, an incident that sparked angry protests by attorneys on Saturday.

Egypt's stock market closed in the red zone on Sunday, as the benchmark EGX30 index declined by 0.59 percent, recording 8,728.87 points and a turnover of LE288 million, the Egyptian Exchange data showed.

Ten human rights organizations have criticized the "insulting the Interior Ministry" charge, which leads to imprisonment.

Egypt’s net international reserves slipped to $19.559 billion at May-end, a decline of more than $1 billion, compared to $20.5 billion in April, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced Sunday.

French telecom giant Orange plans to cut ties with Israeli communications company Partner, Orange’s chairman Stéphane Richard said on Wednesday, following criticism in recent weeks over Partner’s involvement in the Occupied Palestinian territories.