Egypt's air accidents chief said on Thursday that a vessel provided by French company ALSEAMAR, which specializes in marine wreckage searches, will join within hours the hunt for the black boxes from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804.

Forty-seven people handed heavy fines for taking part in illegal protests have been denied permission to pay their fines in installments, meaning they may spend two months in prison instead.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion discussed Wednesday international efforts of reviving the stalled peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine as well as the Ottawa-Cairo military cooperation in the Sinai, Egyptian Presidential Spokesperson Alaa Youssef said in a statement.

Egypt’s central bank deputy governor for monetary policy is joining the International Monetary Fund in August, a central bank source told Reuters on Thursday.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) is to print LE 500 million of one pound banknotes by the beginning of Ramadan, say prominent banking sources.

Egyptian authorities have reached their domestic wheat procurement target for this harvest season, Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture announced on Wednesday.

In an effort to tap into unused public sector assets, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail held a meeting Tuesday over plans to establish a Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Egypt’s revenues from the Suez Canal increased by 0.6 percent to reach $882.4 million during the first quarter of 2016, compared to $876.7 million during the same period last year, the Egyptian Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) announced in a statement Wednesday.

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed arrived in Cairo Wednesday for a short visit to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, state owned MENA agency reported.

An Egyptian appeals court revoked on Tuesday five-year prison sentences handed down earlier this month to 47 defendants for “inciting protests” against the president’s decision to transfer two islands to Saudi control.

It has been seventeen years since US investigators suggested co-pilot Gameel El-Batouti intentionally caused EgyptAir flight 990 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of America in an act of suicide that killed all 216 people on board with him.

Egypt's public prosecutor formally requested data on the crashed EgyptAir plane from France and Greece on Monday, as the victims' remains began arriving at a Cairo morgue ready for DNA testing.

A Cairo prosecution has extended the pre-trial detention of members of a satirical street performance group for 15 days pending investigations over charges of inciting protests against the state, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

The first trial session of nine low-ranking policemen over assaulting doctors was adjourned Tuesday to June 7 due to the absence of the defendants, Youm7 reported.

Twenty-three body bags containing the remains of victims from EgyptAir flight MS804 have arrived at Zenhom mortuary.

The French navy said Monday that one of its ships is aiding in the search for traces of EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday.

National Air Navigation Services Company administrative board chairman Mohi El-Din Azmi denied late Sunday media reports that the pilot of the crashed EgyptAir MS804 contacted Egypt's control centre, in a statement published by Al-Ahram newspaper.

Greek Minister of Tourism Elena Kountoura and an accompanying delegation of 25 representatives of Greek travel agencies arrived in Cairo Monday on board an EgyptAir flight to participate in the Egyptian-Greek Tourism forum in Cairo, Youm7 reported.

A total of 35 percent of Egyptian National Railways (ENR) revenue is lost to ticket evaders, deputy head of ENR Assayed Salem told Youm7 Sunday. ENR has set a plan to enhance the supervision of conductors. The plan will include receiving the fare from conductors after every shift, comparing it with takings from previous days, and making sure conductors stay on the train for the entire duration of the journey, Salem said.

Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazy has left for the U.S. upon an invitation by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford.

An Egyptian aviation committee, tasked with investigating the MS804 passenger airliner crash said that “it is far too soon to make a judgment over the reason that caused the crash.”