The World Bank will finance the development of the infrastructure for the industrial zones in Upper Egypt governorates of Qena and Sohag, Industry and Foreign trade Minister Tarek Kabil said in a statement on Thursday.

British Minister Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon arrived in Cairo on Tuesday along with a Russian delegation to discuss "progress on aviation security in Sharm El Sheikh" with Egyptian officials, a statement by the British embassy read.

Top prosecutor Nabil Sadeq issued a publishing ban decision on Wednesday over the investigations conducted in a report issued by the Central Auditing Organization stating that the size of corruption in Egypt in 2015 amounted to LE600 billion.

An attempt to smuggle 14 artifacts at Damietta port was foiled Wednesday, Youm7 reported. The Criminal Investigation agency at Ports Security Authority announced it had stopped an attempt by an import-export firm to hide a number of suspected archeological artifacts inside a consignment of furniture and wood to be exported abroad.

The Egyptian stock exchange has returned to the sharp declines that it began the week off with as its main index EGX30 fell by about 4.7 per cent on Wednesday.

Farmers wait for January every year, which marks the harvest season, to supply their sugar cane crop to sugar factories to reap the fruits of their labour. But the return often does not cover cultivation costs. Egypt’s production of sugar is approximately 2.4m tonnes annually and consumption is approximately 3m tonnes.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has requested to visit Egypt's newly formed parliament during his two-day trip to the country this week, speaker Ali Abdel-Al disclosed in a meeting with MPs on Tuesday.

President Abdel Fatah al Sisi received Tuesday 20 Egyptian labors who had been abducted by militants near Libya’s city of Tobruk upon arrival in the Cairo International Airport, Youm7 reported.

The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced in a Monday report the results of a national survey on Egyptian emigration conditions.

Egypt’s tourism receipts were down 15 percent in 2015 compared with the previous year as a falling Russian rouble and escalating terrorist attacks took their toll on the sector, the country's tourism ministry announced on Tuesday.

Meteorologists expect slightly cold weather in the morning on Wednesday and very cold weather at night. Temperatures could reach frost in central Sinai and north Upper Egypt especially on farmland. Low and medium level clouds will cover the north accompanied by rain along the north coast.

A number of Egyptian MPs who are members of parliament's Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee stressed Monday that the controversial protest law (law no.107/2013) will not be up on the agenda of parliamentary debates anytime soon.

During their visit to Cairo on Sunday, a delegation of members of the British House of Commons and the House of Lords affirmed they would recommend the resumption of British air flights to Sharm el-Sheikh upon their return to the United Kingdom, the Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman said.

Egyptians will be able to see five planets Jan. 20-Feb. 20 in a phenomenon that occurs every 10 years, head of the Department of Astrology Ashraf Tadros told Youm7 Monday.

The state-affiliated National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) said that interior ministry revealed the fate of 118 out of 191 cases of alleged "enforced disappearances," after their families had complained to the council.

The review procedures of passing laws in the House of Representatives applied Sunday by Parliamentary Speaker Ali Abdel Aal have raised concerns on the constitutionality of the laws passed.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail requested a U.K. parliamentarian delegation on visit to Cairo to expedite the resumption of British flights to Egypt, according to a Monday Cabinet statement.

During their visit to Cairo on Sunday, a delegation of members of the British House of Commons and the House of Lords affirmed they would recommend the resumption of British air flights to Sharm el-Sheikh upon their return to the U.K., the Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman said.

The State Council’s Administrative Court turned down a lawsuit that demanded activist Wael Ghoneim be stripped of his Egyptian citizenship on Sunday.

Egypt will hold an international conference in February to present the latest and future development opportunities in the Suez Canal, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Egypt's new parliament approved two controversial laws on Sunday as it started reviewing legislation passed by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi since June 2014, including the so-called "terrorist entities" law.