Parliament's Human Rights Committee has announced plans to engage in dialogue with foreign ambassadors to Egypt to explain the development of the human rights situation in the country over the past few years.

Ain Sokhna Port investigation police and customs authorities thwarted an attempt on Monday to smuggle a large shipment of the banned painkiller, tramadol into Egypt from India for the second time in just over a week.

The number of tourists who visited Egypt in May dropped by 51.7 percent compared to the same month during the previous year, the country's state statistics body CAPMAS said in a Tuesday statement.

Egypt’s stock exchange went down on Monday one day after it posted the largest one-day gain in nearly four months as some investors seek profits. The market’s benchmark EGX30 slightly declined 0.15 percent to register 7,506 points in a trading session that witnessed Arab investors as the only net sellers to the tune of EGP 50.6 million.

The Ministry of Antiquities began on Monday to install a new lighting system inside and outside the Egyptian Museum in an attempt to expand its hours of operation into the evening.

On Sunday the Cabinet issued several decisions relating to the management of state-owned assets, including the formation of a committee to process financial and technical offers for how to exploit the assets.

Security forces cordoned off the Journalists Syndicate headquarters building in Cairo on Monday to prevent high school students holding a press conference there, according to syndicate officials.

Hundreds of Aswan-based teachers staged a demonstration on Sunday, in opposition to the government’s delay in issuing a 200% incentive which was already approved by the Ministry of Education.

The civil service law is once again up for debate, with the parliament due to vote on the newly modified draft bill later this month.

Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, in a rare visit to Israel, said Sunday his country is still a "steadfast and unwavering" supporter of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A few months prior the UNESCO elections for the post of Director-General, Egypt decided to nominate the Egyptian ambassador and diplomat, Moushira Khattab to the post. The elections for a leader to fill the shoes of Irina Bokova (who has set her sights on the position of UN Secretary-General) will take place at the beginning of 2017.

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed on Saturday the importance of reducing the public debt and increasing the foreign exchange reserves, according to a statement by the presidency.

The banking market awaits the launch of the tender by the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to sell US dollars to banks on Tuesday in order to learn whether the CBE will depreciate the Egyptian pound against the dollar again.

The ceiling of Ra Wer tomb, located at the site of the Giza pyramids, collapsed four days ago, according to Omar al-Hadary, general coordinator of the Antiquities Ministry independent trade union.

Head of parliament Ali Abdul-Aal will hold an urgent meeting this week with the parliamentary committees of foreign relations, defence and national security, and human rights to discuss Egyptian-Italian relations, member of parliament Tarek Al-Khouly told Daily News Egypt.

Egypt “regrets” a decision by the Italian parliament to suspend the supply of military spare parts to Cairo, saying it will “negatively affect cooperation in the field of countering illegal immigration in the Mediterranean and dealing with the situation in Libya and other fields where Italy has received Egyptian support.”

Education Minister Al-Helali al-Sherbeni will begin the restructuring of certain sectors within the Education Ministry after the Eid al-Fitr holidays, a ministry source told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Thursday.

Former PM and TV host Tawfiq Okasha was detained by prosecutors on Thursday after accusations that he had kidnapped his own son.

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