Israeli energy companies said on Monday they would pursue talks with potential natural gas importers in Egypt a day after Cairo called for a freeze in all negotiations until a separate arbitration case with Israel was settled.

Police said they found no explosives on a German passenger plane after it diverted to Budapest on Monday following a bomb threat.

Less than a week after the announcement of the House of Representatives election results, ex-military intelligence general Sameh Seif Alyazal told Egypt's flagship state newspaper Al-Ahram that "The Coalition to Support the Egyptian State" will be finalized within days.

Judge Ahmed Saad El-Din was appointed as the new secretary-general for Egypt’s parliament, according to state-owned media on Sunday.

Residents of 1,000 housing units in Doweika in the slum area of Manshiyet Nasser are being evacuated due to impending risk of rockslide on the houses, Deputy Cairo governor Mohamed Ayman told Youm7 Sunday.

At least four people were killed and 10 others injured Sunday in a road accident south of Giza, Youm7 reported.

ِEgypt’s military prosecuted 425 civilians in November, an independent group of lawyers said in a recent report, highlighting incidents which it deemed violations of human rights and press freedoms.

The State Council’s Administrative Court issued a statement explaining a recent verdict on workers' rights Sunday, which is seen by advocates as a victory for the right to strike.

Judge Ahmed Saad El-Din was appointed as the new secretary-general for Egypt’s parliament, according to state-owned media on Sunday.

Egyptian political parties started announcing on Thursday the number of total parliamentary seats won after unofficial results started coming out from party representatives and media outlets present during the vote count.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Thursday that “individual” incidents of detainee torture by police should not be generalized as an Interior Ministry policy, in an apparent defense of the police service against a recent surge of accusations of deadly torture of citizens.

For the third time this week, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) held steady Thursday the value of Egyptian pound against the U.S. dollar, Youm7 reported, citing officials from the CBE.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) set new regulations for banks to obtain dollars during the CBE’s FX Auctions held three times a week, according to banking sources.

The Rafah border crossing which connects Egypt and the Gaza Strip will be opened on Thursday and Friday in both directions, Egypt's state news agency MENA said on Wednesday.

Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail traveled to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to head the Egyptian delegation to the Egyptian-Saudi coordination council, state-owned MENA reported.

Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi said he is communicating with the Sudanese minister of water resources and electricity to agree on the timing of a proposed meeting to resolve differences over the technical studies of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

An Egyptian court ordered a second retrial on Wednesday in a longrunning graft case against Ahmed Nazif, prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources said.

State Security prosecutors detained Tuesday Egyptian researcher and journalist Ismail Alexandrani for 15 days on charges of joining an illegal group, spreading rumors and disturbing the public peace, all of which he denied.

French President Francois Hollande will visit Egypt in April, Egyptian Minister of Commerce and Industry Tarek Kabil announced on Tuesday.

Deaths inside Egyptian prisons, due to torture and medical negligence, stood at 13 in November alone, a NGO said Wednesday, after compiling media reports. The Interior Ministry, meanwhile, faces increasing criticism and public anger over the alleged extra-judicial arrest and fatal torture of detainees over the past two weeks.

On Tuesday, 426 independents will be competing for 213 seats in 99 constituencies in the run-offs in Cairo and 12 other governorates.