Luxor and Queen Hatshepsut temples will be lit up in blue Saturday evening in honor of World Autism Awareness Day; Luxor Governor Mohamed Badr was quoted by Youm7.

Minister of Immigration Nabila Makram said on Thursday that the Egyptian students arrested in Sudan for leaking exams will be released next week.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his United States counterpart John Kerry in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit.

A Cyprus court on Wednesday ordered the detention for eight days of an Egyptian man who admitted to hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to the east Mediterranean island nation by threatening to blow it up with a fake explosives belt.

The Italian Senate has expressed its firm solidarity with the family of the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni who was found dead in Egypt last month.

Canada is expected to provide Egypt 50 million Canadian dollars in aid ($38.34 million USD) to subsidize nutrition of Egyptian and Syrian students in Egypt, and improve education systems in six Egyptian governorates, as well as support development for women and youth, the Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation stated Wednesday.

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Sunday to halt the Israeli government's plan to regulate the natural gas industry, in a move that is set to complicate export deals with Egypt and other states.

The Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP) severely criticised the dismissal of top auditor Hisham Geneina from his position as head of the Central Auditing Organisation (CAO), upon order of a presidential decree.

A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian plane on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on Tuesday and forced it to land in Cyprus, Egyptian officials said.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday sacked Egypt's top auditor who had stirred controversy by publicly concluding that government corruption had cost the country billions of dollars.

An Egyptian was buried in Saudi Arabia after his former sponsor refused to let his body out of the country, Egyptian consul in Jeddah Adel al-Alfy told Mehwar channel Monday.

Egypt’s immigration and expatriates affairs minister arrived in Sudan’s capital on Tuesday for talks concerning the arrest of several Egyptian students accused of cheating in secondary school examinations.

Cairo Appeals Court has turned down a request to have controversial Judge Nagy Shehata replaced in the "Imbaba cell" case.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry has denied backtracking on recent findings in the Giulio Regeni murder investigation due to pressure from the Italian government, saying that its original claims had been misrepresented in the media.

Egypt’s second-largest state bank, Banque Misr, is in talks with a foreign financial institution for a 300 million euro ($334.92 million) syndicated loan to shore up its foreign currency resources, Banque Misr said on Monday.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi issued a decision to pardon a number of sentenced prisoners to honor Sinai Liberation Day April 25, according to the official gazette.

The Egyptian pound fell to an unprecedented low on the black market on Monday, five traders said, as hard currency demand rises in the dollar-starved economy.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has asked for support from members of the House of Representatives as he presents the government’s proposed action plan for the coming period before MPs on Sunday.

Egypt is targeting an economic growth rate of 5-6 percent by the end of the 2017/18 fiscal year, and north of six percent in the following years, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail told Egypt’s parliament Sunday while unveiling an ambitious three-year plan.

A counterfeit antiquities trafficker remanded into custody in Minya died of low blood pressure on Saturday, security in the Upper Egyptian province said.

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris said on Sunday his bid to acquire CI Capital, the investment arm of Egypt’s largest listed bank, was being held up by national security concerns and criticised state meddling in business that he said would put off investors.