The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced 15 members from the Ultras White Knights (UWK) to one year in prison on Monday following charges levelled against the members accusing them of storming into the Al-Zamalek club headquarters and attempting to assassinate the club’s president in August 2014.

Cairo criminal court ordered on Sunday a new investigation into the case of the killing of 22 Zamalek club fans last year, saying that the available evidence and the witness testimonies are too "inconclusive for the court to make a ruling."

An inmate has been killed during an attempted break-out from a police station in the town of Hawamdiya, Giza, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

Within the framework of the Support to the Association Agreement Programme (SAAP), the European Union Delegation to Egypt, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of International cooperation and the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) are celebrating the kickoff of the institutional twinning project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Kingdom of Spain.

Egypt's highest court reversed on Sunday a 15-year jail sentence handed down by a lower court to a policeman for killing an activist in the street, judicial sources said, overturning a rare sentence against members of security forces.

Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal arrived in Geneva Sunday, where he is scheduled to discuss fields of cooperation between the Egyptian parliament and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) with the president of the IPU.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will address the country's newly elected House of Representatives on Saturday for the first time since taking office in ‎June 2014.

Egyptian railway services are in need of LE100 billion in repairs and uprades to meet global standards, Egypt’s Transport Minister Saad El-Geyoushi said Thursday during a visit to the scene of the most recent train crash, urging investors to direct investments to the transport sector.

Undersecretary of Health Ministry in Gharbiya governorate Mohamed Sharshar was dismissed from his position after a number of patients were blinded after receiving injections of unlicensed drugs, Youm7 reported Thursday.

A train crash in the Beni Suef province left at least 69 people injured on Wednesday night, a representative for the ministry of health said.

The case of Mahmoud Mohamed Hussein, who was detained at the age of 17 for wearing T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Nation without torture”, may be the most notorious case of a juvenile in pre-trial detention for the long-term.

Cairo’s taxi drivers on Wednesday repeated their demands to the Egyptian government to immediately ban taxi service operators Uber and Careem.

Egypt signed on Wednesday an agreement with the UK-based Control Risks firm to evaluate Egyptian airports over two stages, state news agency MENA reported. During the first phase, the global independent consultancy company will be tasked with the evaluation of three airports –Cairo, Sharm El-Sheikh and Marsa Alam -- at an approximate cost of $700,000, MENA reported citing Aviation Minister Hossam Kamal.

A police officer in Egypt's eastern city of Ismailia has been sentenced to eight years in jail for beating a man to death in custody and falsifying police records, judicial sources said on Tuesday.

The Central Bank of Egypt called on the Ministry of Social Solidarity to postpone collection of dues owed by tourism investors to banks for one more year, Atef Abdel Latif, member of the Marsa Alam and South Sinai investors associations was quoted by Al Ahram Wednesday.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday as part of Shukri's three-day visit to Washington D.C.

The Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Sudanese irrigation ministers met on Wednesday in Khartoum with representatives of two French companies set to conduct studies on the impact of the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam’s (GERD).

The government is working on a new draft law on civil service, replacing a controversial document repudiated by the parliament last month, the Planning, Follow-up and Administrative Reform Ministry has said.

Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said Monday in an interview with Foreign Policy that the circulated figure of 40,000 political prisoners in Egypt is a lie.

The Doctors' Syndicate is earnestly lobbying for its emergency public assembly next Friday to discuss recent incidents of alleged assaults by police on its members, ensuring transportation for participants from the country’s provinces to Cairo.

The Egyptian pound continued to weaken on the black market on Tuesday, piling more pressure on the central bank to devalue the currency even as the official rate against the dollar remained unchanged at an auction.