Egypt's cabinet has approved a new draft budget for the 2015/16 fiscal year to slash the projected deficit to 8.9 percent of GDP, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday.

Cairo-based Arab League (AL) General Secretariat held Thursday an urgent meeting on Wednesday North Sinai attacks, calling for the acceleration of establishing a unified Arab Armed Forces to confront “terrorism” facing the region.

At least 20 Egyptian policemen and soldiers have been killed and 30 wounded in ongoing clashes with IS-affiliated militants in North Sinai on Wednesday, an official source said, marking the first major attack in the restive peninsula in five months.

Twenty people have been arrested by security forces over accusations they are behind the Facebook page dubbed "The Popular Resistance" which claimed responsibility for the assassination of Egypt's top general prosecutor Hisham Barakat on Monday.

Egypt is witnessing an “overflow” in electricity production, although not all power plants in an urgent plan to curb the country’s energy crisis have operated, a Tuesday presidential statement quoted Minister of Electricity Mohamed Shaker.

Egypt’s Cabinet is scheduled to review legal amendments made to the “counter-terrorism” draft law during its weekly meeting Wednesday, Youm7 reported.

Tuktuk driver Mohamed Shaaban was contacted by a civil society organisation, offering him a chance to participate in a workshop for tuktuk drivers. Tuktuks are three-wheeler vehicles used for hire.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has vowed to amend laws in Egypt within days to achieve "rapid justice" against militants a day after the assassination of the country's top public prosecutor.

A suspect belonging to Giza Popular Resistance, a little-known group which had claimed responsibility for the assassination of Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat on Monday was arrested on Tuesday, Egypt’s state-run agency MENA reported, quoting sources from the Giza Security Directorate.

Dozens of states worldwide and international organizations have strongly denounced the Monday assassination of Egyptian Attorney-General Hisham Barakat in a car bomb attack. Turkey condemned the attack in a one-sentence statement.

Justice Minister Ahmed El-Zend has decided to cancel the annual judicial leave this year in order for judges to close ongoing cases in all courts, the Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Two weeks after Sadat Metro station was reopened after almost two years of closure, the Egyptian authorities closed the station Tuesday for “security reasons” on the second anniversary of the June 30 anti-Muslim Brotherhood protests; security forces are on high alert nationwide after the Attorney-General was assassinated Monday.

The US embassy in Cairo issued a short statement condemning the assassination of Egypt's prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat earlier on Monday, describing it as "heinous terrorist attack".

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab issued the executive regulations of the new mineral resources law to start its application, improving the exploitation of mineral resources, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Ambassador Mervat Tallawy, Director General of the Arab Women's Organization, signed a memorandum of understanding at the headquarters of the organization on Tuesday with Mohamed al-Nassery, representative of the United Nations body for women in Egypt, in an effort to create a safe society free from all forms of violence against Arab women.

The "eradication" of slums in Egypt, which make up 40 percent of its urban areas, will cost around LE250 billion according to Sherif El-Gohary, a technical support manager at the Ministry of Urban Renewal and Informal Settlements.

The Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence released a report saying that security violations during the past 12 months has reached 272 deaths and 289 torture cases inside Egyptian prisons.

Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab designated Tuesday a public holiday for the second anniversary of 30 June, which marks the beginning of mass protests against former president Mohamed Morsi that instigated his ouster in 2013.

A Cairo court on Sunday dismissed an appeal against a LE50,000 fine for 86 people who were convicted of participating in unauthorised protests in Tahrir Square in January this year, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

Policemen at Cairo’s metro will “attentively inspect bags” of passengers, per instructions by Assistant Interior Minister for the transportation department El-Sayed Gad el-Haq directed, who visited the central station of Sadat Sunday, Youm7 reported.

The new board of Egypt’s landline monopoly operator Telecom Egypt (TE) decided in a late Thursday meeting to exclude a senior official rejecting calls for cutting internet prices, Youm7 reported.