Egypt on Monday extended the opening of its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to Palestinians for a further two days.

The exercise, dubbed ‘Friendship Bridge – 2015′, lasted from 6 to 14 June and was considered a success according to a Defence Ministry statement, hailing the “great accuracy and achievement of its objectives”.

Around 218 million cubic meters of water-saturated sand have so far been lifted at the new Suez Canal project, said Head of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish.

Antiquities Minister Mamdouh Damati said on Saturday 13/6/2015 that three tombs were discovered in Luxor.

Egypt's stock market extended its losses for the seventh session in a row, as the benchmark EGX30 index declined by 1.07 percent on Sunday, recording 8,534.13 points and a turnover of LE 357.71 million, the Egyptian Exchange data showed.

Former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq resigned Saturday from his post as the chairman of the Egyptian National Movement political party, citing “difficult circumstances.”

Egyptian private energy firm Elsewedy Electric signed an agreement to develop a solar power plant in Upper Egypt with a capacity of 50 megawatts, the company said on Sunday.

The presidency denied Thursday news circulated on some media outlets that some of its vehicles had been attacked by assailants during their way back to Cairo from Sharm el-Sheikh.

The Karnak temple in Egypt's Luxor was open as usual Thursday despite a foiled suicide and gun attack on the world-famous site that police said would have been a "massacre".

Cairo University began applying the new civil service law on Thursday, dismissing several Muslim Brotherhood leaders who had been sentenced in criminal cases.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb has ordered the establishment of a higher council for the digital community. The council, headed by the Prime Minister himself, includes the ministers of defense, communications and information technology, local development, planning, interior, justice, and the top prosecutor, as well as the head of the General Intelligence Service.

A report on violations committed by the police during the first year of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's tenure counted nearly 300 cases of torture and almost 300 more deaths at the hands of security personnel or within detention facilities

Security forces have foiled an attack on an important tourist site in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, killing two militants and injuring a third, the interior ministry has announced.

A total of 17.2 percent of Egypt’s youth aged 15-29 years old wish to emigrate and live abroad, according to a 2014 survey carried out by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).

Transport Minister Hani Dahy has announced that the African Economic Blocs Summit has put forward a plan for a railway line to connect the African continent. “It will help transportation and trade between the countries of the continent,” he said.

The 6 April Youth Movement is due to lead a strike Thursday as sweeping arrests target activists associated with the group.

Egypt's annual inflation rate stood last month at 13.5 percent, a significant rise from the 8.2 percent it recorded during the same month last year, the state's official statistics agency reported on Wednesday.

Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi was sworn in as Egypt’s second-democratically elected president on 8 June 2014, less than one year after he led the popular ouster of his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi.

The licenses of four international schools have been revoked over financial and “administrative irregularities,” sources at Egypt’s Education Ministry told Youm7 Tuesday.

The Egyptian government on Tuesday dismissed a report that accused it of widespread human rights violations as politicized and lacking in objectivity and accuracy.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced Tuesday it has covered 50 Percent of foreign investors’ pending backlog, through direct sales to investors’ custodians, amid efforts to ensure the domestic market’s efficiency and strength.