Egypt's finance minister said on Wednesday the total budget deficit for the fiscal year that ended in June was 252 billion Egyptian pounds ($35.2 billion), accounting for 12.5 to 12.6 percent of GDP, state news agency MENA reported.

Two political parties, the Egyptian Current and Strong Egypt, have merged, the new group said in a press conference on Wednesday.

In his first 100 days in office, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has made a fast start on economic reform: slashing costly fuel subsidies, raising taxes and devising infrastructure projects to secure long-term revenues and ease unemployment.

Kasr Al-Nil Misdemeanor Court has sentenced nine members of the April 6 Youth Movement to two years in prison for organizing a demonstration without permission on Talaat Harb street to demand the release of movement's founder Ahmed Maher.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Tuesday 63 defendants to 15 years in prison and a 20 thousand Egyptian-pound fine for violence which took place at Cairo's Azbakeya neighbourhood last October.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued on Tuesday a decree necessitating the defence minister's prior consent to any arms import deals.

The Minya Criminal Court decided on Monday to postpone to January the trial of 161 people accused of inciting violence in August 2013.

Egypt's foreign ministry has condemned another round of attacks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the country's democratic transition following last year's political upheaval, calling the accusations a "series of lies and exaggerations."

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, in a speech to the nation from Cairo University Sunday evening, focused on youth academic improvement and said he “wants Egypt’s youth to be on his side.”

Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Waly said Sunday that she will not change her position on a controversial ministry-backed NGO Law that requires all NGOS in Egypt to register with the ministry and give it control over their operations, boards and management, Youm7 reported.

A worker in the ‘New Suez Canal’ project has died while digging, making him the third worker to die during project excavation in September, Ibrahim Allam, a medical team staff member on-site confirmed to The Cairo Post Sunday.

Egypt and Libya plunged in an annual rating of good governance in Africa released in London on Monday that saw Ivory Coast rise the fastest.

Egypt's university professors have sounded alarm bells over a draft law that they say will give university heads full sway to unfairly lay off faculty members.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday resumed the retrial of former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly in the case pertaining to the new license plates of the Traffic Department.

Dozens of Health Technical Institute graduates Sunday organized a protest outside the Cabinet headquarters on Qasr el-Ainy Street in Downtown Cairo to demand their enrollment in a government nurse institute, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's stock market and banks will close for three days starting on Sunday, Oct. 5 for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday and a national holiday, the bourse and central bank said on Sunday.

A low ranking police officer was shot dead by unknown assailants on Sunday in the North Cairo district of Madinat Al-Salam, according to reports from Cairo's security directorate.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is expected to discuss the country's "real" situation with US President Barack Obama in New York on Thursday, presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef said.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi may visit Cairo University next week to present awards to top students and deliver a speech for the beginning of the new academic year, Youm7 reported Wednesday.

An advisor to the Turkish president has denied Egyptian media reports that the countries' leaders were planning to meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Norhan Hefzy, wife of the activist Ahmed Douma, has said that the Forensic Medicine Department refused to give her a copy of the medical report of her husband after the recent medical examination carried out on him, without giving any justification.