U.S. ambassador to Cairo Stephen Beecroft said he is “impressed” by establishing the New Suez Canal ahead of the expected schedule, he said Tuesday in press statements.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi pardoned Wednesday 165 prisoners, including minors, convicted of breaching the 2013 protest law, according to a Wednesday presidential statement.

Qatari Al-Jazeera channel has paid “millions of dollars” on the trial of its journalists in Egypt to “wage a war” against the country, former Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy claimed in a Tuesday interview with Al-Youm channel.

Egyptian national security forces arrested Mohamed Battawy, a journalist at newspaper Akhbar Al-Youm, without charges on Wednesday. Khaled al-Balshy, head of journalism freedom committee at the Journalists Syndicate, told Egypt Independent.

The Hurghada International Airport’s control tower received on Wednesday a notification from the pilot of a passenger plane coming from Stuttgart, requesting an emergency landing.

Egypt has entered into an initial agreement with China over 15 projects worth about $10 billion, the Egyptian trade minister said on Monday.

Human Rights Watch and other international NGOs have slammed what they consider to be a crackdown on human rights groups based on the government's suspicions over the legality of their operations. This comes as a controversial law on civil society organizations is being reconsidered.

Egypt stopped the sale of a 2,700 year-old Egyptian statue that was put up for sale in a Germany-based auction hall, the Antiquities Ministry’s Restored Artifacts Department (RAD) head Aly Ahmed told The Cairo Post Sunday.

Egypt’s judiciary has sworn in 26 new female judges as per a decree by Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zend.

Journalists have agreed not to pay release bails, because they are not supposed to be detained for publishing ‘crimes’ in the first place, according to their legal rights. This was agreed upon in a Monday meeting at the Press Syndicate’s Cairo headquarters, following increased legal pursuit of the press community.

The interior ministry dropped on Monday complaints against two newspapers "as part of the ministry's efforts to strengthen its relationship with the different parties in the nation and different media outlets," a prosecution statement read.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi directed the government to consider postponing the application of the smart card system for subsidized fuel purchases which was due to come into effect June 15, according to a Saturday presidential statement.

The Obama administration is mistaken in its support for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as it is aiding the regime crack down on political opposition, creating an even more unjust and violent Egypt, argues the Washington Post in an editorial published Sunday.

Egypt on Monday extended the opening of its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to Palestinians for a further two days.

The exercise, dubbed ‘Friendship Bridge – 2015′, lasted from 6 to 14 June and was considered a success according to a Defence Ministry statement, hailing the “great accuracy and achievement of its objectives”.

Around 218 million cubic meters of water-saturated sand have so far been lifted at the new Suez Canal project, said Head of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish.

Antiquities Minister Mamdouh Damati said on Saturday 13/6/2015 that three tombs were discovered in Luxor.

Egypt's stock market extended its losses for the seventh session in a row, as the benchmark EGX30 index declined by 1.07 percent on Sunday, recording 8,534.13 points and a turnover of LE 357.71 million, the Egyptian Exchange data showed.

Former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq resigned Saturday from his post as the chairman of the Egyptian National Movement political party, citing “difficult circumstances.”

Egyptian private energy firm Elsewedy Electric signed an agreement to develop a solar power plant in Upper Egypt with a capacity of 50 megawatts, the company said on Sunday.

The presidency denied Thursday news circulated on some media outlets that some of its vehicles had been attacked by assailants during their way back to Cairo from Sharm el-Sheikh.