A former executive at Bechtel Corp was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison on Monday for accepting $5.2 million in kickbacks for state-run power contracts in Egypt.

Former Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyad Yassin said Tuesday Egypt should move fast to secure the Bab al-Mandeb strait to prevent its control by Houthi forces.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi began a one-day visit to Sudan Monday to participate in a tripartite summit with Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and Ethiopian Prime Minister Haile Mariam Desalegn.

A spokesman for the forensic authority has been dismissed in the wake of his comments on a slain activist who was shot dead two months ago, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported on Tuesday.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said the recently signed Declaration of Principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is a “powerful commitment to clearer understanding and better coordination,” in a Monday meeting with Ethiopian Prime Minster Hailemariam Desalegn in Addis Ababa.

Chairman of the Pharmacists Syndicate Mohey Eddin Ebaid warned on Tuesday of the collapse of the pharmaceutical industry in Egypt, calling on the Cabinet to take immediate steps to address the crisis.

An IED, planted by unidentified assailants, exploded Monday in front of the house of one of the judges who acquitted Mubarak-era Interior Minister Habib al-Adly from illegal gains charges.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Addis Ababa Monday afternoon from Khartoum on a two-day visit to the Ethiopian capital, the state-owned MENA news agency reported.

Egypt's petroleum minister signed an agreement to increase both prices and gas production levels in a deal Egypt previously signed with German energy firm RWE Dea, Egypt's Petroleum Ministry said.

Security forces rescue a 30-year-old woman who was attempting to commit suicide Monday in the downtown metro station of Al-Shohadaa, Youm7 reported.

At least 13 houses were demolished in Rafah Monday as per the second phase of the ongoing border evacuation in North Sinai, according to state media MENA which quoted security officials.

Endowments Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa said on Sunday that his house in his hometown of Beni Suef was the target of a failed terrorist attack.

A total of 31 mothers have been given the option of receiving a 50,000 EGP award or free pilgrimage, Sisa Abu Doah, one of the mothers honored by President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi Sunday, told Al-Masry Al-Youm.

A photojournalist was ordered be jailed 24 hours Sunday because his mobile phone rang inside the court as a hearing was taking place, Youm7 reported.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reiterated the importance of his country's ties with the US but said that its values of democracy and freedom cannot be adopted by Egypt under the current circumstances.

An Egyptian leftist activist shot by police with birdshot in January died "because she was too thin," a spokesman for the forensic medicine authority said on Saturday.

Ex-president Hosni Mubarak’s former Minister of Interior Habib al-Adly was acquitted Thursday of charges of illicit gains, the last legal case Adly faced, Youm7 reported.

Egypt strongly condemned Wednesday’s attack on the Tunisian Wational Museum which killed at least 19 foreign tourists and civilians, as well as two gunmen, and left at least 44 injured.

Although the concept of monarchy in ancient Egypt was traditionally limited to males, a woman progressed from the role of co-regent to pharaoh and was a forerunner of such figures as Cleopatra.

A teacher at Nag Abd Rabo School at Balsfora village affiliated with Sohag Governorate's education department beat a pupil in the first preparatory grade using a water hose, causing bruises and abrasions on the boy's body.

A Cairo criminal court on Thursday acquitted Hosni Mubarak-era interior minister Habib El-Adly of corruption charges, paving the way for his release, his lawyer told Ahram Online