The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) held pound steady at 7.93 per dollar in a foreign exchange (FX) auction on Sunday, as the bank sold $37.8 million at a cut-off price of 7.9301 EGP/ dollar.

Workers at Mahallah’s Misr Spinning and Weaving Company ended an 11-day strike Sunday following an written guarantee that they will be granted the 10 percent social allowance promised by the president to be given retroactively starting July.

Egypt, Emirates and Oman were among the 117 countries that voted Israel into the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) membership on Friday.

Egypt's High Elections Commission has said that the final results of the recently concluded first stage of parliamentary elections will most likely be announced on Friday.

A young activist widely-credited for triggering Egypt’s 2011 uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak has said he had a naive outlook on the hope of a democratic transition, adding that it was that wrong assessment that obliged him to keep silent in recent years.

A total of 371 tons of food products and 980,000 juice cartons were confiscated for being unfit for human consumption, Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafy announced Thursday.

Despite being protected in the constitution, laws and ministerial decrees, children in Egyptian schools are still subject to corporal abuse, with one of the latest cases involving the flogging of a 10-year-old child 40 times for speaking in class.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi made a public speech when he attended the Third India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS-3) with the presence of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday.

Economists in Egypt are divided over the direction the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) will move its key policy interest rate in its next meeting on Thursday 29 October.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has directed government agencies to give their employees a half-day leave on Wednesday, as a means of offsetting low voter turnout on the last day of runoff polls for the first round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections.

Former Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei has renewed his criticisms of the detention and prosecution of Egyptian political activists under the current government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will attend international talks on the Syrian crisis taking place in Vienna on Friday, the state news agency said.

Hitting a record since the beginning of 2015, Egypt’s trade deficit widened in July to reach EGP 34.7 billion, up 38.8% compared to the same month last year.

Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al Damaty will inaugurate Thursday the 2,500-year-old Temple of Hibis in Al Kharga Oasis after the completion of its 10-year-old renovation project, Youm7 reported.

Low voting rates continued throughout the runoff period during the first round of polls for the 569-seat House of Representatives' elections on Tuesday, hours after Egyptian diplomatic missions reported a similar moderate turnout on Monday.

EgyptAir, the state-owned flag carrier, is in final stages of launching an overhaul and expansion plan that will reverse its downturn and propel it towards growth, its chairman said on Tuesday.

Egypt’s pound held steady at 7.93 per dollar in a central bank foreign exchange (FX) auction on Tuesday, Youm7 reported.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi landed in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on Tuesday at the beginning of a three-stop tour which will include India and Bahrain, state run television reported.

Two Al-Dostour newspaper journalists, Shaimaa Hussein and Mohamed Alaa, were arrested on Tuesday while covering the runoff parliamentary elections in one of the polling stations in Giza.

Egypt's journalists’ syndicate filed a report on Sunday accusing the interior ministry of being behind the disappearance of journalist Mahmoud Mostafa Saad, a syndicate statement read.

Egypt's Suez Canal revenues fell 4.4 percent in September for the seventh consecutive month, reaching US$448.8 million, compared to $469.7million in the same month last year, according to the Suez Canal Authority.