Egypt prosecutors referred Thursday four police officers and five lower-ranking policemen to the criminal court on charges of torturing to death a man in police custody in Upper Egypt's Luxor.

Recent gas discoveries in Egyptian waters will strengthen the economic partnership between Egypt, Cyprus and Greece, said Petroleum Minister Tareq el-Molla, pointing out that the three countries have succeeded in turning these discoveries into a theme for cooperation, development and prosperity, instead of conflict.

The Ministry of Justice has signed five protocols since June aiming to secure and protect judges and courts from terrorist attacks, a judicial source told Youm7 Thursday.

Egypt's urban consumer inflation surged in November to reach 11.1 percent compared to 9.7 percent in October, said the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on Thursday.

The European Union (EU) granted €30m worth of funding to support the “Expanding Access to Education and Protection of at Risk Children” programme.

Egyptian ministries have not made noticeable progress on proactive disclosure of information despite a recently launched anti-corruption state initiative , according to a report by an independent rights group.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has suggested that Egyptian expatriates make a financial contribution to help their country cope with eroding foreign reserves, according to one of his advisers.

On Wednesday 8 December British Ambassador John Casson visited Sharm el-Sheikh, to attend a memorial service for victims of the Metrojet plane crash on 31 October, and to take forward joint UK-Egyptian work to restore flights between the UK and Sharm el-Sheikh as soon as possible.

Prisoners at the notorious Al-Aqrab prison have started a hunger strike citing abuse and torture, in claims which prison authorities have denied Wednesday.

Former parliamentarian Hamdy Al-Fakharani was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison on charges of blackmail and abuse of power. He was arrested in September for demanding an EGP 5m bribe to drop a corruption lawsuit he had filed earlier against businessman Samuel Thabet Zaki.

Egypt's journalists’ syndicate freedoms committee is organising a standing protest to be held Wednesday evening in front of the syndicate building to call for the release and medical treatment of detained journalists.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is in Athens for a two-day visit that will focus on energy and shipping, as financially troubled Greece seeks economic cooperation with regional partners.

For the fifth time in a row, Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) governor Tareq Amer held Tuesday the value of the Egyptian pound steady against the U.S. dollar in the CBE Treasury bonds auctions.

Reaping 116 seats in Egypt's newly-elected House of Representatives, businessmen already have their legislative agenda set out: the investment law, tax law and the law governing local municipalities, which they say have the most significant impact on Egypt's ailing investment climate.

The Egyptian health minister has revealed the results of a survey that claims to show a reduction in the prevalence of hepatitis in the Egyptian population.

Egypt will sign the final agreement on a $1 billion loan from the World Bank (WB) on the 19th of December, expecting to receive the money before this year's end, state-run Al-Ahram daily newspaper reported on Monday, citing International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr.

Israeli energy companies said on Monday they would pursue talks with potential natural gas importers in Egypt a day after Cairo called for a freeze in all negotiations until a separate arbitration case with Israel was settled.

Police said they found no explosives on a German passenger plane after it diverted to Budapest on Monday following a bomb threat.

Less than a week after the announcement of the House of Representatives election results, ex-military intelligence general Sameh Seif Alyazal told Egypt's flagship state newspaper Al-Ahram that "The Coalition to Support the Egyptian State" will be finalized within days.

Judge Ahmed Saad El-Din was appointed as the new secretary-general for Egypt’s parliament, according to state-owned media on Sunday.

Residents of 1,000 housing units in Doweika in the slum area of Manshiyet Nasser are being evacuated due to impending risk of rockslide on the houses, Deputy Cairo governor Mohamed Ayman told Youm7 Sunday.