Mubarak-era politician Ahmed Ezz retracted Monday a request to change the judges panel in an apeal filed against disqualifying him from running in the coming parliamentary elections.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi stated Saturday that the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been witnessing daily violations that are increasing at an unprecedented rate, leading to a very critical condition.

Forty-eight percent of Egyptians reject the participation of parties with a religious preference in parliamentary elections, 29 percent approve and 23 percent are undecided, according to a poll by the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera).

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with a US Congress delegation on Saturday in Cairo, and invited the group to monitor Egypt's parliamentary elections, scheduled to start in October.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in on Saturday as he tries to rebuild an economy battered by Islamist militant violence.

A 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian leather illuminated manuscript containing incantations and colorful figures of supernatural beings has been discovered at the Egyptian Museum.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appointed former Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb assistant to the president for national and strategic projects, said the presidency on Saturday.

Local Egyptian NGO is attempting to revoke the licences of a Norwegian news team working in Egypt, after the latter’s company was involved in investigating alleged money-laundering crimes by an affiliate NGO based in Norway.

Egypt's High Elections Committee (HEC) announced it has started to receive appeals against its decision of which candidates to allow to stand in the upcoming elections, the committee announced on Thursday.

A 3D video mapping show, narrating the biography of Queen Cleopatra, will be projected Thursday on the façade of Alexandria’s Qaitbey Citadel.

Media host Eiman al-Hossary has apologized for misreporting remarks by Mexico’s president after it was revealed that her source is a satirical news website.

Workers were seen demolishing a part of the wall surrounding the American University in Cairo on Thursday. "In the framework of beautifying Tahrir Sqaure, the Egyptian government asked the American University in Cairo to either develop or remove its Science building along with its walls on Mohamed Mahmoud street," Rehab Saad, Director of Media Relations at the American University of Cairo, told Aswat Masriya in a phone interview.

The electoral campaign for Egypt's house of representatives will start on September 29 and last for 18 days, said the spokesman of the Supreme Elections Committee on Wednesday.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will receive Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu in Cairo following the accidental killing of Mexican tourists on a safari trip in Egypt on Sunday, the presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.

Gas stations across Egypt are being overwhelmed by people seeking fuel, while the government continues to insist that supplies are adequate.

EgyptAir Tourism (Karnak) and Duty Free announced Wednesday a 20 percent discount on a big portion of the tax-free shops displays during Eid al-Adha vacation, Youm7 reported.

Politician and business magnate Ahmed Ezz was excluded from the initial list of approved candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections on Wednesday.

Minister of Tourism Khaled Ramy visited nine injured victims of the accidental shooting of a tourist group at the hospital of Dar El-Fouad, which she asserted were “in stable health conditions”, said Rasha Azazy, the official spokesperson for the ministry on Tuesday.

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who previously hinted he would buy Mediterranean islands for migrants and refugees, has identified two private Greek islands and is in negotiations with their owners to purchase them, according to a statement issued from his communication office Monday evening.

The Egyptian pound was held steady by the central bank at a dollar sale on Tuesday, selling $37.8 million at a cut-off price of LE7.7301 per dollar, but strengthened on the parallel market.

Egypt's prosecution ordered on Tuesday DNA tests to identify the bodies of the seven Mexican tourists and four Egyptian guides who were among 12 killed by security forces in the Western Desert after being mistaken for terrorists.