Egypt's army has sent special forces by air to the Sinai Peninsula to help existing troops and police forces destroy all terrorist cells in the peninsula, says an army spokesman.

A number of Egyptian journalists have launched a petition to safeguard a "free press that opposes terrorism as well as despotism". The move comes in refusal to a statement signed last week by the chief editors of most of Egypt's newspapers, in which they said they won't publish material that "shows support to terrorism, directly or indirectly", while also confirming their "refusal to doubts in state institutions and insults to the army, police and judiciary".

A dozen local rights groups released a joint statement on Sunday with proposed recommendations for an upcoming review of Egypt's human rights by the UN Human Rights Council in Switzerland.

Journalists Against the Protest Law (JAPL) refused the meeting held last week by editors-in-chief of major publications in a Sunday statement.

Former vice president Mohamed ElBaradei has said that Egypt needs an inclusive constitution that reflects all social stripes, adding that Arab Spring revolutions are not moving forward due to the absence of civil society and political parties.

A project to establish Egypt as the region's hub for the grain trade is now estimated to be finished in two years instead of the originally proposed five, raising the cost of the project by almost LE2 billion.

A Cairo court has acquitted 26 fans of well-known Egyptian football club, Zamalek on Thursday from charges of illegal protesting, judicial sources said. The prosecution had charged the "Ultras White Knights," the hardcore fans of Zamalek football club, with organising an unauthorised march, assaulting residents, sabotage of public and private property, blocking a road and possession of weapons.

Former intelligence official Tharwat Gouda was sentenced in a military tribunal for making press statements “in prejudice to national security,” and TV anchor Mahmoud Saad was summoned by military prosecution Wednesday, Dot Masr news website reported.

The Egyptian, Cypriot and Greek foreign ministers met in the Cypriot capital Nicosia Wednesday to discuss shared interests and issues relating to energy, security, and tourism.

Egypt’s biggest steel maker, Ezz Dekheila has seen its profit slip 94 percent in the year’s third quarter, as energy shortages and price surge took their toll during the period under review.

DUBAI A man born with just two fingers on one hand is desperately looking for a job after being shown the door by 16 prospective employers in less than three years.

The hunger-striking family of leading Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah has begun a sit-in at the Supreme Court in central Cairo to protest his detention and a jail sentence against his sister, a family member has said.

Egypt will issue dollar-denominated foreign bonds at a total value ranging between $1 billion and $1.5 billion during the first quarter of 2015, Minister of Finance Hani Kadry announced Monday.

The Ministry of Transitional Justice adopted on Tuesday a decree of the formation of a high committee that would draft a law relocating citizens from Nuba region to the old lands they were obliged to evacuate for the construction of the High Dam in Aswan.

Giza Governor Ali Abdel Rahman said requisition measures will be taken to carry out the first phase of the fourth line of Cairo's metro in March.

The U.S. embassy in Cairo issued a warning Monday for the American citizens to be on alert and take all security measures after a jihadist website threatened to target American and Western schools in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The United States is "deeply troubled" by the sentencing of 23 Egyptian activists to three-years in prison for violating the protest law, US State Department spokesman said in a Monday presser.

Schoolchildren and university students accused of sabotaging educational facilities will be tried by military courts under a new law issued on Monday.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued a law on Monday that allows the military to assist the police in guarding vital public facilities.

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) stated that they will not register with the Ministry of Solidarity under the proposed Law 84/2002, according to May Al Sheikh EIPR communications director.

Egyptian airport authorities have barred a Danish Institute for Human Rights official from entering the country over "suspicious training” for Egyptian youth.