Egypt’s cabinet approved “in principle” a long-awaited value added tax (VAT) bill and will refer it to the Council of State, an advisory body to the government, before sending it to parliament for discussion, it said in a statement on Monday.

Some 924 tourists of various nationalities are scheduled to arrive at Sharm al-Sheikh Airport Tuesday aboard seven international flights, the head of South Sinai’s task force Essam Khedr told Youm7.

Business tycoon Naguib Sawiris said Tuesday that the sale of satellite TV channel ONTV resulted from failed attempts to turn the channel into a lucrative investment, adding that he still intends to invest heavily in TV advertisement through his company Promomedia.

Egypt decided to raise the price of medicines under EGP30 by 20 percent in an effort to tackle a shortage in supply driven by rising costs, Health Minister Ahmed Emad Eddin said during a press conference at the cabinet on Monday.

The Cabinet has approved the draft law governing the press and media affairs, said Planning Minister Ashraf al-Araby Monday.

Egypt has reclaimed 44 archaeological artifacts from France dating back to different periods of ancient Egyptian civilizations, the Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany announced.

Egypt's government has purchased three million tonnes of domestic wheat, three quarters of the targeted amount of four million tonnes, since the harvest season’s beginning in mid-April, the agriculture ministry said in an e-mailed statement on Monday.

National Bank of Egypt, the country’s largest state bank, sold 1.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($169 million) worth of special certificates that were launched in March to attract foreign currency into the banking system, its deputy chairman said.

A total of 41 passengers were injured after a bus flipped over along the Eastern Desert Road in Upper Egypt’s Minya Sundya, Youm7 reported.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi received Sunday an invitation to attend the 2016 Arab Summit that is scheduled to convene in Mauritania, the Egyptian Presidential Spokesperson Alaa Youssef announced in a statement.

An Egyptian court sentenced 152 protesters on Saturday to between two and five years in prison each after they demonstrated against a decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, judicial sources and state media said.

Egypt's press syndicate has called for a meeting of syndicate members on Wednesday to follow up on the latest developments in the syndicate's ongoing dispute with the interior ministry, a statement by the syndicate said.

Egyptian prosecutors have renewed for 15 days the detention of two journalists arrested from inside the Journalists Syndicate headquarters earlier in May, pending investigation into charges of inciting anti-government protests.

The owner of Egypt's independent El-Masry El-Youm daily criticised his own paper's take on the recent crisis between journalists and the interior ministry that was triggered by a police raid on their union earlier this month.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called on Housing Minister Moustafa Madbouli to concluded within the next two years current projects to improve unsafe and dangerous slum areas like Duwaiqa and Tal al-Aqareb.

The number of tourists visiting Egypt in March 2016 decreased by 47.2 percent compared to the same month last year, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS,) Egypt’s official statistical agency.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said during a press conference that US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power’s comments about jailed journalists were not directed at Egypt.

Egyptian health officials said on Thursday that the three bottled mineral water comapnies Nestle, Aquafina and Baraka had produced bottled water that was unfit for human consumption.

The German Ministry of Transport issued a decision to lift the ban imposed since November 2015 on the transportation of check-in luggage with passengers on board German flights heading to Sharm el-Sheikh.

Italy appointed Giampaolo Cantini as its new ambassador to Egypt, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Tuesday, official Italian news agency ANSA reported, a month after recalling the former ambassador over the torture and death of Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met with Kuwaiti Justice Minister Yacoub Al Sanea to discuss counter-terrorism efforts that will be on the agenda of the Justice Arab Ministers meeting facilitated by the Arab League Wednesday, the Presidential office said in a statement.