Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said his country could not confirm that a Croatian national abducted by an Islamic State affiliate in Egypt had been murdered, after an image of a decapitated body circulated online Wednesday.

Transport Ministry said it will conduct random drugs test for train and metro drivers “in the interest of the safety of the public,” Youm7 reported Wednesday.

The government has voiced persistence in maintaining a law regulating the work of its public servants, defying massive protests demanding to revoke the law enacted in March.

A counter-terrorism draft law approved by the Cabinet last month will receive final approval from Egypt’s presidency within hours, Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zend told reporters at the Cabinet’s building on Wednesday.

Heads of Cairo districts will be able to arrest citizens committing violations, following a decision by the Justice Ministry to allow local officials the power of judicial police, Cairo Governor Galal Saeed told state-run media Al-Ahram Tuesday.

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has ordered the creation of a special economic zone surrounding the Suez Canal, part of a long planned ambitious project to develop the area adjacent to the strategic waterway into an industrial hub.

Since Sunday, 61 people have died from the debilitating heatwave that has swept through Egypt. The Health Ministry announced in a statement Tuesday that 581 people suffering from heat-related issues had been admitted to hospitals nationwide on that day alone.

Cairo governor Saeed Mostafa has issued a decision to confiscate all tuk tuks that are detected twice in downtown Cairo districts.

A total of 85 labor protest cases have been reported across Egypt so far in 2015, compared to 287 cases in 2014, Manpower Minister Nahed Ashry was quoted by Youm7 Tuesday.

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."