Sameh Ashour, the head of the Lawyers Syndicate, called for a series of measures to be taken against the Ministry of Interior after the disappearance of lawyer Ibrahim Abdul Moneim Abo Gamos in the governorate of Sharqeya.

El-Nadeem Centre for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence issued a statement on Thursday responding to the reasons cited by the health ministry to shut down the non-governmental organisation last week.

Reactions from the media and politicians varied in response to an hour and a half long speech delievered by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday at al-Galaa Theater in Cairo, where he launched the government's long-term sustainable development strategy "Egypt Vision 2030".

Newly appointed Egyptian ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat submitted Israeli President Reuven Rivlin his credentials Thursday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced via its Twitter account.

“Do not listen to anyone else but me,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday in a ceremony held in Cairo for the launch of the country’s sustainable development strategy, Egypt’s Vision 2030.

Egypt will take part in the G20 summit in Shanghai for the first time this Friday, an official statement issued by the Ministry of Finance read.

The culprits behind Italian student Giulio Regeni's murder in Cairo have not yet been identified, Egypt's interior ministry said in an official statement on Wednesday.

Israel’s outgoing ambassador to Cairo, Haim Koren, has welcomed an “invitation to dinner” by Egyptian MP Tawfiq Okasha, a rare step by an Egyptian public figure, conflicting with an unofficial boycott of Israel since the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was signed in 1979.

Public prosecutors on Wednesday summoned TV host Youssef al-Husseiny for interrogation over insulting Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zend on OnTV channel.

The October 2015 crash of a Russian plan was caused by a person or group who “aimed to hit Egyptian tourism,” said President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi in his opening address to the Egypt’s Vision 2030 conference Wednesday.

Renowned journalist and human rights activist Hossam Bahgat was banned from travelling on Tuesday. He was supposed to travel to Jordan to participate in the United Nations meeting on Justice in the Arab World, according to a post on his Facebook account.

Egypt launched on Wednesday the final draft of the country's sustainable development strategy for the next 15 years with the aim to raise Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth to 12 percent in 2030, up from the 4.2 percent attained last fiscal year, while reducing the budget deficit to 2.28 percent from 11.5 percent.

Egyptian parliament speaker Ali Abdel-Al seized Tuesday's morning session to express "deep respect" for journalists after two MPs attacked reporters covering parliament the day before.

El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence has vowed that it will not stop helping victims of torture and violence despite the Egyptian government's decision to shut the organization down.

A new Mediterranean shipping lane in east Port Said will be inaugurated Wednesday, Youm7 reported Director-General of East Port Said Area Hesham Salama Tuesday.

A policeman out of nine accused of assaulting doctors at Matariya Teaching hospital in January was referred Monday to trial, after thousands of doctors staged protests demanding police accountability.

The Qasr Al-Nil Criminal Court acquitted nine protesters on Tuesday who had been formally charged with violating the Protest Law and sedition, stemming from their arrest in November on the fourth anniversary of clashes between police and protesters on Mohamed Mahmoud Street.

Egypt is "definitely not going" to float its currency with foreign currency reserves at their current level, the governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said on Sunday.

Former Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab inaugurated the first international Suez Canal conference on Monday, titled "Opportunities and Challenges".

Egypt’s People’s Assembly accepted the resignation of outgoing Member of Parliament Serry Siam Sunday, and notified President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi of the vacancy among the 596 seats, Youm7 reported.

Agroup of Nubian citizens and activists protested Monday at Aswan’s Abu Simbel Temple, as hundreds of tourists gathered in the early hours of the morning to watch a unique solar perpendicular alignment illuminating the face of ancient King Ramses II.