Italy's top prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone is set to arrive in Cairo Monday to follow up on investigations related to slain Italian student Guilio Regeni, said Egypt's ambassador to Italy.

Minister of Justice Ahmed Al-Zind has faced severe backlash following his statement on Friday, when he said: “I will imprison anyone who does wrong, even Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) himself.”

Egypt dismissed as inaccurate reports that it is seeking a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a Central Bank official told Ahram Online on Wednesday.

A prominent opponent of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt's fragmented pro-democracy opposition parties had "failed" the country and he vowed to forge a new movement able to provide a genuine alternative to the current government.

Members of the European Parliament has called on Egypt to assist Italian investigators looking into the murder of Italian student Giulio Regini, whose tortured body was found in early February on the side of a road in Cairo. The parliament also noted “with grave concern that the case of Giulio Regeni is not an isolated incident,” and pointed to increased cases of enforced disappearance in Egypt, in a draft resolution considered by the body.

Egyptian rights groups sent a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad detailing the "ongoing deterioration" of human rights in Egypt shortly before his scheduled address to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva on Thursday.

Parliament’s most volatile father-son duo could soon become the next faces to replaces in the parliament, just two months after it was convened.

Egypt's Central Bank (CBE) lifted the monthly caps on foreign currency deposits and withdrawals by corporations, it said in a press release on Wednesday.

Workers at the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh are saying that the city has turned into a "ghost town", after the crash of a Russian passenger plane in October that killed 224 tourists and prompted many countries to halt flights heading there.

Driving in the front passenger seat of a taxi to avoid suspicion from local police is a measure usually taken by those engaged in an illegal activity, not patrons of a car service that is set to upset the taxi system of a city of 20 million residents.

A prominent Egyptian politician, who supported Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s bid for presidency in 2014, likened Egypt's current state of affairs to the defeat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, in an opinion article on Tuesday.

Businessman Naguib Sawiris stated Sunday that the Egyptian government must embrace new technology, lauding technology’s democratising force in a country he claimed relies on bureaucracy and its attendant corruption risks. Sawiris statements came during a press conference held by the American Chamber of Commerce on how technology is changing the business model. No stranger to controversy, Sawiris said that in Egypt “we tend to do everything under the hand of bureaucrats and open more doors for corruption”.

MP Alaa Abdel Moneim filed on Tuesday a memo to parliamentary speaker Ali Abdelaal, demanding him to strip Zamalek Sports Club chief Mortada Mansour of his MP title.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi affirmed Egypt’s support to Iraq’s “unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity” during his meeting with Iraqi counterpart Fuad Masum, Egyptian Presidential Spokesperson Alaa Youssef Monday.

"I appreciate your concern for Sinai but you don't have enough information about what is happening in Sinai," Egyptian President AbdelFattah al-Sisi told TV host Amr Adeeb in an on-air phone-call on Monday night.

The United States government concurred with Egypt on the necessity of punishing those involved in the assassination of late Egyptian prosecutor general Hesham Barakat, said US department of state spokesman Mark Toner.

For this year’s International Women’s Day, we wanted to celebrate the Doodle-worthy women of the future. So we gathered our cameras and pencils and visited 13 countries where we spoke to 337 women and girls and asked them to complete the sentence, “One day I will…” From toddlers to grandmothers, the women in San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Lagos, Moscow, Cairo, Berlin, London, Paris, Jakarta, Bangkok, New Delhi and Tokyo all sparkled with personality. Each new city brought more “One day I will”s, more signature dance moves, more hugs, more high-fives," Google's statement reads.

A collection of important documents from the 18th and 19th centuries were found accidently in one of the storehouses of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) in Al- Abbassiya district in Cairo, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh Eldamaty announced.

The Doctors' Syndicate said Monday it will hold protests on March 12 and 19 to condemn assaults by security personnel against medical workers over the past few weeks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi highlighted in a phone conversation on Monday that the fight against terrorists should continue not only in Syria but also in Libya and Yemen, the Kremlin said in a statement.

Egypt's top prosecutor referred a policeman to trial on Saturday on accusation of fabricating drug charges in an incident that occurred in November, a judicial source said.