Independent investigative news website Mada Masr's reporter Hossam Bahgat was ordered to four days of custody detention pending interrogaitons by Military Intelligence over charges of reporting false, military-related news, according to the website's chief editor Lina Attalah.

Russian experts expect it would take at least two weeks to audit Egyptian airports before Russian flights to Egypt resume, said deputy head of Russia’s Association of Tourist Operators Dmitry Gorin to local Russian media Monday.

Journalist Hossam Bahgat was summoned to Egypt’s military intelligence service for questioning Sunday morning, independent news website Mada Masr reported, adding that the reason behind the order remains unknown.

The UK is not evacuating British holidaymakers in Egypt but rather assisting them to return home at the end of their holidays, the British embassy said in a statement on Saturday.

The Egyptian pound was stable at a dollar sale on Sunday, with the central bank selling $40 million at a cut-off price of 7.9301 pounds per dollar, while the currency strengthened on the parallel market.

An Egyptian businessman who co-owns Al-Masry Al-Youm daily newspaper was arrested on corruption charges at his villa in Giza on Sunday morning, two days after his assets were frozen by prosecutors, a security source told Al-Ahram's Arabic website.

Egypt's foreign minister said Saturday states that have announced that the Russian plane crash was caused by a bomb have not shared information in detail with Egyptian security apparatuses.

Up to 20,000 British tourists are awaiting flights back home following the UK’s “precautionary” decision to suspend all flights by UK-based airlines over Egypt’s Sinai after fears that an explosive device was the likely cause of last weekend's crash of a Russian airliner over the peninsula.

Egypt has promoted the airport chief at Sharm al-Sheikh days after a Russian plane that took off from the Red Sea resort crashed in a disaster that killed all aboard and was claimed by Islamist militants.

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia will hold the long-delayed 9th round of tripartite meetings on the under-construction Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) Nov. 7-8 in Cairo, stated Egyptian Minister of Water Resource and Irrigation, Hossam Moghazy Thursday.

Campaigners opposed to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday blocked the entrance to Downing Street, the London residence of British Prime Minister David Cameron, ahead of a meeting between the two leaders.

Investigators have found no evidence so far that an explosion on board brought down a Russian passenger plane that crashed on Saturday, Egypt's civil aviation minister said.

Crowds of supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi gathered in front of his residence in London Thursday to chant their support, Video 7 recorded.

Egypt's inclement weather left three dead in a Nile Delta village on Wednesday, with homes flooded and traffic disrupted in a number of cities for a second time in less than a fortnight.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said that the low turnout recorded during the first phase of parliamentary elections, which ended on October 28, was not indicative of popular discontent with his rule.

Dozens of people went on hunger strike Tuesday for one day in solidarity with Maha Mekkawy, a leading member of al-Dostour party whose husband, Ashraf Shehata, has been “forcibly disappeared” since Jan. 13, 2014.

Independent local coalition Egyptians Against Coal aim to advocate excluding coal use from Egypt’s energy industry by 2017 due to its hazardous environmental threats, the group announced in a meeting on Tuesday.

Egypt's financial and economic conditions have improved in the past two years but structural economic challenges persist, International Credit Agency, Moody's, said in its annual Egypt credit report issued Tuesday.

A total of 196 bodies from the Russian airliner crash have been recovered and the search operation has ended, cabinet spokesperson Hossam Qawish announced Monday, Ahram Arabic website reported.

Egypt's non-oil private sector contracted, in output, new orders in October and employment dropped to its lowest level in eight months, survey figures from Emirates NBD and Markit Economics showed Tuesday.

Chief of staff Lt. General Mahmoud Hegazy met Monday in Cairo with visiting U.S. military delegation headed by commander of Naval Forces Central Command Rear Admiral Kevin M Donegan, Youm7 reported.