Suez Canal Authority will hold a lottery to decide who will attend the opening ceremony of the New Suez Canal, the head of one of the companies responsible for promoting the Canal said on Sunday.

Cairo Criminal Court, headed by Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata, sentenced in absentia, Sunday, six defendants to death over storming the Ghad al-Thawra Party headquarters in February 2013.

Archaeological sites in the west bank of Luxor, including burials at the Valley of the Kings, are now opened to the public at night for the first time ever, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said in a statement Saturday.

Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) is considering extending the exception for importing high-moisture level French wheat beyond August, state agency MENA said on Sunday.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) is set to consider interest rates next Thursday, according to its website, amid expectations of keeping them on hold as inflation rates dropped in June.

Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, currently on a visit to Italy, said that his country's stability is indispensible for wider stability in the region and the world.

One-hundred and two traffic police personnel have started an open-ended work and hunger strike against the disciplining of seven of their colleagues. The seven people have been transferred to the Alexandria Security Directorate.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenie’s remarks “incite sectarian violence” in Bahrain, stated Al-Azhar, the most prestigious Sunni institution in the region, and Egypt’s Foreign Ministry.

A ferryboat sunk in the Nile river in Cairo's twin city Giza on Wednesday leaving 15 passengers dead, while six injured passengers were rescued, the Interior Ministry said.

Egypt's prosecution announced on Wednesday that it collected "over 12 billion" Egyptian pounds (more than $1.5 billion) in tax evasion cases and retrieved real estate and hundreds of fedans of state land.

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia started a new round of talks on Wednesday over the latter’s Grand Renaissance Dam project, which Egypt fears will affect its share of the Nile's water.

An Egyptian court has sentenced Ahmed Nazif, a former prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, to five years in jail on graft charges in a retrial, judicial sources said on Wednesday.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi attended the graduation ceremony of new batches of Naval and Air Force Academies cadets in Alexandria Wednesday.

Egypt's trade deficit stood at 24.6 billion Egyptian pounds in April, rising by 52.7 percent from the 16.11 billion pounds it recorded during the same month last year, the state's official statistics agency reported on Tuesday.

“Probably in Novemner, we will have a parliament to complete the roadmap,” said Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb on Wednesday, at a meeting with automotive industry investors in Turin, Italy.

Perpetrators of sexual harassment in 340 incidents, mostly verbal, have been released because no girls arrived to sign police reports, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

Tensions between Cairo and Ankara have reached unprecedented levels since the ouster of former Egyptian president and Turkey ally Mohamed Morsi in 2013, an Israeli think-tank has said.

The new Suez Canal project will start its trial operation process on Saturday, 11 days before the official inauguration on 6 August, Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Investment Minister Ashraf Salman said that Egypt is targeting a GDP growth rate of 4.5 –4.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015/16, according to daily business Al-Borsa newspaper.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said Egypt is making “advancements in politics, economy and security” during a meeting on Monday with Egyptian expats in Equatorial Guinea.

The new Suez Canal shipping-route project will be completed before Saturday, according to Mohab Mamesh, head of the Canal Authority.