The Dokki Prosecution ordered the release of four members of the banned April 6 youth movement on Thursday.

Egypt has made great strides over the last two and a half years in political and economic renewal. October’s successful parliamentary elections mark the final milestone on our roadmap to the future and lays the foundation for inclusive, representative, and effective governance that will provide a better future for our citizens and fulfil aspirations for a prosperous, secure, and free country.

Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egypt’s most prominent journalist and commentator, died today at the age of 92 in Cairo after a brief illness that ended an accomplished life and remarkable career.

The Antiquities Minstry has announced a "golden jubliee" celebration next week to celebrate the relocation of the famous Abu Simbel Temple to save it from rising water levels resulting from the construction of the Aswan High Dam.

The Doctors’ Syndicate will stage a one-hour protest in all government hospitals on Saturday Feb. 20 to protest police brutality against doctors, Youm7 reported Wednesday.

Supreme Prosecution of Homeland Security extended the detention of journalist Hisham Gaafar on Tuesday for another 15 days.

National security Officer Hossam el-Shennawy was acquitted Tuesday of torturing a detainee in order to extract a confession in 2011, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's doctors' syndicate sent a letter to the interior ministry Monday notifying officials of nationwide standing protests that will take place at hospitals on Saturday, 20 February.

Egypt's central bank is not moving toward devaluing the pound or floating its currency, a central bank official said in remarks published by the state news agency on Tuesday, as demand for dollars in the black market soared.

Egypt's speaker of parliament Ali Abdel Al has again called on Switzerland to work with Egypt in recovering millions of dollars of assets linked to ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, state news agency MENA said.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that democracy is a long and continuous process and that enshrining it will take between 20 to 25 years, which he considered to be a short period of time to achieve the goal.

The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) began providing assistance to white taxi drivers in 2012, according to its leader and prominent rights lawyer, and former presidential candidate, Khaled Ali.

Egypt’s unemployment rate eased 0.10 percent in the period from October to December in 2015 compared to the same quarter the year before, state statistics body CAPMAS said in e-mailed statement on Monday.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received on Sunday a US delegation representing the Atlantic Council, which included former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former US National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, former US Ambassador to Cairo Francis Ricciardone among other researchers.

More than 45,000 patients with Hepatitis C virus have been treated at the expense of the state with an estimated cost of 270,000 EGP ($35,000) Youm7 quoted an official source Monday.

The Egyptian stock market's benchmark index EGX 30 rose by around 0.95 per cent, reaching 5,808 points in the first 15 minutes of trade on Monday.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced 15 members from the Ultras White Knights (UWK) to one year in prison on Monday following charges levelled against the members accusing them of storming into the Al-Zamalek club headquarters and attempting to assassinate the club’s president in August 2014.

Cairo criminal court ordered on Sunday a new investigation into the case of the killing of 22 Zamalek club fans last year, saying that the available evidence and the witness testimonies are too "inconclusive for the court to make a ruling."

An inmate has been killed during an attempted break-out from a police station in the town of Hawamdiya, Giza, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

Within the framework of the Support to the Association Agreement Programme (SAAP), the European Union Delegation to Egypt, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of International cooperation and the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) are celebrating the kickoff of the institutional twinning project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Kingdom of Spain.

Egypt's highest court reversed on Sunday a 15-year jail sentence handed down by a lower court to a policeman for killing an activist in the street, judicial sources said, overturning a rare sentence against members of security forces.