The draft of Egypt’s first anti-cybercrime law was finalized by the Ministry of Justice and will be sent to the State Council for revision before ratification by the president.

Monday’s celebration of the traditional Egyptian spring holiday Sham el-Nessim witnessed a “significant decrease” in sexual harassment incidents, which were mostly limited to catcalling, according to an I Saw Harassment report.

Culture Minister Abdel Wahed al-Nabawy has said that remarks he made on a stout museum curator were intended to be humorous, stressing that his remarks, which the lady referred to in a complaint she shared on Facebook, “were taken out of context”.

The U.N. Security Council has approved an arms embargo on leaders of Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels and their key supporters, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his son.

Egypt’s Minister of Defence Sedky Sobhy on Sunday announced a reshuffle of several senior military positions, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has condemned terrorist attacks in North Sinai and said his country “will continue to maintain its solidarity with the Egyptian people."

A conscript was wounded by a gunshot on Monday morning at a checkpoint in Rafah, North Sinai. Karam Abdo Abdel Shafi, 23, was on watch in the al-Barahma checkpoint on the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip. He was taken to the military hospital in Arish.

While millions of Egyptians mark the national holiday of Sham El-Nessim, one of the few celebrations that bring both Muslim and Coptic Christians together, very few realize that it is a celebration linked directly to ancient Egypt.

Cairo Governor Galal Saeed said 40 solar-powered lampposts have been placed in Matareya Square, a solution that will later be applied in other Cairo squares, if it proves to be successful.

Egypt's agriculture minister Salah El-Din Helal on Monday made a surprise visit to several public gardens around Cairo, where Egyptians are celebrating Sham El-Nessim, a national holiday that marks the beginning of spring.

Taha al-Sharidy, head of the Matareya Fishermen Union, said on Sunday evening that a Sudanese court sentenced 106 Egyptian fishermen to six months in prison, confiscated three boats and imposed a fine of five thousand Sudanese pounds on each of them, for violating international fishing laws and entering Sudanese territorial waters without permit.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi Thursday delegated Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to lead an official Egyptian delegation to attend the Bandung Conference in Indonesia by the end of April, Youm7 reported.

The United States said on Wednesday it was considering a $57 million sale of air-to-surface missiles toEgypt, the second big arms deal this week after Congress was notified of a potential $1 billion sale of helicopters and missiles to Pakistan.

Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazy said that the Egyptian delegation participating in the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam negotiations is making every effort to defend the country’s interests.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab has rejected claims the state is promoting candidates or groups ahead of the upcoming parliamentary election.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has appointed a new head of the country's key government financial watchdog agency, the Administrative Control Authority (ACA), a statement from the president's office said.

Egypt's top prosecutor referred two Homeland Security police officers accused of torturing a lawyer, to criminal court on Wednesday, a statement said.

Egypt's Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat referred 379 defendants described as "members of the Muslim Brotherhood" to criminal court on Wednesday, a statement from his office said.

Egypt’s military ranked 18th among world forces and the first among Arab forces, according to a ranking made by Global Firepower, an independent website focused on comparison of military powers around the world.

Egypt’s Ministry of Finance approved Tuesday evening a number of amendments to the executive regulations of the income-tax law to accommodate recently introduced capital-market taxes.

Two adults and a child were injured on Monday when an improvised explosive device detonated in Upper Egypt's Aswan governorate near a security forces camp.