The Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) outlined 10 media regulations for covering the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed over the phone the latest security and political developments in the Middle East with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin late Wednesday, MENA reported.

Egypt’s support for the Russian military involvement in favor of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may strain its relations with oil-rich Saudi Arabia, analysts said.

A new 16,500-bottle batch of American manufactured Hepatitis C drug Solvadi will hit the market Friday, after the Central Bank paid $4 million to the customs department.

An Egyptian criminal court renewed on Thursday the detention of two men who have been under preventive detention for over 600 days for wearing anti-torture T-shirts, according to the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression's (AFTE) official website.

A French official source said in a statement on Thursday that a loan of 70 million euros and another of 80 million euros to Egypt will be signed during the visit of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who will also meet with the Franco-Egyptian Business Club to discuss investment and trade possibilities.

Egypt’s net international reserves plunged for a third straight month to hit $16.33 billion at September-end, marking a $1.76 billion decline from $18.09 billion a month earlier, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced Wednesday.

A total of 18 bus drivers have tested positive for drugs in random screening campaign that is entering its third day Wednesday, reported Youm7.

Some 218 prisoners have been pardoned by a presidential decree to commemorate the 6th of October War, the Ministry of Interior announced Tuesday.

Dozens of pro-Hosni Mubarak supporters gathered in Cairo early Tuesday to salute the ousted president at the Maadi Military Hospital for his role in the 6 October War of 1973.

Libyan anti-illegal migration troops arrested Tuesday 96 Egyptians in the Libyan territories, and 50 other unregistered migrants were deported in 24 hours over the Libyan-Egyptian border crossing in Sallum.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not in talks with Egypt about a new loan program, IMF Mission Chief for Egypt Chris Jarvis has said.

Egypt has awarded four new licences to explore for oil and gas off its Mediterranean coast, weeks after Eni's giant Zohr gas find piqued fresh international interest in the area.

A U.S.-Belgian Dredging Coalition has won an international tender to dredge a new 9.5 kilometer-long shipping lane in East Port Said to facilitate international trade maritime navigation, officials from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said Tuesday.

In an unprecedented outcome for Egyptian political parties, women raked 19 of 43 seats in the Egyptian Democratic Part's high committee elections on Friday, exceeding the 33 percent women's quota by 10 percentage points.

The government is still in a state of confusion as a foreign currency crisis bites harder, with the Central Bank of Egypt stepping up efforts to resolve the crisis.

The Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi attended early Monday celebrations of the 42nd anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

Egypt's ambassador to Egypt, Khaled Tharwat, has told Al-Masry Al-Youm that following a conversation with Jordanian authorities, including the country's parliament speaker, the three Jordanian brothers who repeatedly slapped an Egyptian waiter at a restaurant in the city of Aqaba have been arrested.

The newly-appointed Egyptian cabinet will remain in power if the parliament due to be elected in October and November approves its agenda, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday.

In a staggering statistic, Osama Rostom, head of the chamber of pharmaceutical industries, said recently that the pharmacists syndicate estimated the existence of EGP 600 million worth of counterfeit and expired drugs in the Egyptian market, constituting 2 percent of the country's total annual pharmaceutical sales.

British Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has decided to initiate a second deferral period on the export license application of the Sekhemka statue till March 29, 2016.