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.

Campaigning in the second phase of Egypt's parliamentary elections began Tuesday, officially kick-starting the competition across 102 constituencies in 13 Egyptian provinces.

The Press Syndicate announced in a statement on Monday their support for the Egyptian Chamber of Audiovisual Media Industry’s decision to ban Al-Zamalek president Mortada Mansour from appearing on any of its member channels.

The Russian airline whose jet crashed in Egypt killing everyone on board said on Monday the crash could not have been caused by a technical fault or human error.

Many expected talk show hosts to change their attitude and praise Sisi after he criticized the media for the way it covers issues. But what happened instead was that Ibrahim Eissa, Rola Kharsa, Lamis al-Hadidi and Youssef al-Husseini criticized the president in their turn.

Egyptian national ID cards may be issued in colors as part of developments carried out to the civil affairs sector, Youm7 reported Monday.

Article 99 of the Egyptian constitution stipulates that any violation of personal freedom or the sanctity of the private life of citizens, or any other public rights and freedoms which are guaranteed by the constitution and the law, is a crime.

A Russian aviation official said that the Russian plane that crashed in the Sinai desert on Saturday was destroyed in mid-air, as a deadline for the search operations at the site of the fatal crash nears expiry, a Russian minister said.

The Russian Airbus that crashed in Egypt broke apart "in the air," a senior official with Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee said Sunday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said an investigation into the causes of Saturday's Russian plane crash in which 224 people were killed could take months.

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.