Egyptians celebrated on Thursday the beginning of Eid al-Adha holidays, marking the end of the pilgrimage season for Muslims.

Young female activists Sanaa Seif and Yara Sallam were among the young political detainees that were released Wednesday evening from prison, based on a customary presidential pardon granted for 100 prisoners on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced on Wednesday the pardoning of 100 prisoners, including Al Jazeera's television journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed and some prominent youth activists who were charged with violating the protest law.

France has agreed to sell two Mistral helicopter carriers to Egypt after their sale to Russia was cancelled in August and will not incur a financial loss in the transaction, government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said.

An Egyptian official says the Antiquities Ministry has given initial approval for the use of non-invasive radar to verify a theory that Queen Nefertiti’s crypt may be hidden behind King Tutankhamun’s 3,300-year-old tomb in the famous Valley of the Kings.

Egypt warned against ignoring UN Security Council resolutions related to the Middle East, or being being selective in their application, according to an official statement.

The Egyptian Administrative Court has issued decisions on parliamentary candidates on Monday, amid the legal procedures set by the Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) for the upcoming elections. For nearly a week, the court has looked into parliament-related lawsuits, after which the SEC is supposed to declare the candidates.

Egypt has complied with international human rights law and has consulted with local residents while combating terrorism in Sinai, Egypt's new cabinet said in a press statement on Tuesday.

Departure halls and lounges at Cairo Airport have been crammed with passengers since Tuesday morning because of the introduction of a new system of processing and stamping passports, Youm7 reported.

Egypt was the top recipient of official development assistance (ODA) in 2013 at $5.5 billion, said United Nations report on Friday.

The Tadamon coalition of labour syndicates and associations that reject the application of the disputed Civil Service Law, said Monday it would escalate protest against the law after Eid Al-Adha.

The New Cairo court has extended the custody detention of former agriculture minister Salah Helal by 15 days over charges of corruption and bribery, which forced him out of office two weeks ago.

Egypt is concerned about the delay in finalising a political agreement between the competing factions in Libya, the foreign ministry's spokesman, Ahmed Abu-Zeid, said Monday in a statement.

Egypt’s Military Chief of the Staff Mahmoud Hegazy and his U.K counterpart Nicholas Houghton, Chief of Defense Staff for the UK Armed Forces met to discuss cooperation on counter-terrorism efforts and Libyan security turmoil, announced UK ambassador to Egypt John Casson Sunday.

Mubarak-era politician Ahmed Ezz retracted Monday a request to change the judges panel in an apeal filed against disqualifying him from running in the coming parliamentary elections.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi stated Saturday that the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been witnessing daily violations that are increasing at an unprecedented rate, leading to a very critical condition.

Forty-eight percent of Egyptians reject the participation of parties with a religious preference in parliamentary elections, 29 percent approve and 23 percent are undecided, according to a poll by the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera).

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with a US Congress delegation on Saturday in Cairo, and invited the group to monitor Egypt's parliamentary elections, scheduled to start in October.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in on Saturday as he tries to rebuild an economy battered by Islamist militant violence.

A 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian leather illuminated manuscript containing incantations and colorful figures of supernatural beings has been discovered at the Egyptian Museum.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appointed former Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb assistant to the president for national and strategic projects, said the presidency on Saturday.