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.

At least four people were killed and 10 others injured Sunday in a road accident south of Giza, Youm7 reported.

ِEgypt’s military prosecuted 425 civilians in November, an independent group of lawyers said in a recent report, highlighting incidents which it deemed violations of human rights and press freedoms.

The State Council’s Administrative Court issued a statement explaining a recent verdict on workers' rights Sunday, which is seen by advocates as a victory for the right to strike.

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

Egyptian political parties started announcing on Thursday the number of total parliamentary seats won after unofficial results started coming out from party representatives and media outlets present during the vote count.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Thursday that “individual” incidents of detainee torture by police should not be generalized as an Interior Ministry policy, in an apparent defense of the police service against a recent surge of accusations of deadly torture of citizens.

For the third time this week, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) held steady Thursday the value of Egyptian pound against the U.S. dollar, Youm7 reported, citing officials from the CBE.