A total of 11 out of 14 Egyptian fishermen were released after being held by Tunisian coast guards for illegally fishing within territorial waters, state-run news agency MENA quoted a Monday statement by the Egyptian Embassy in Tunisia.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is due to hold talks with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo during a two-day visit by the latter to the Egyptian capital, state news agency MENA said.

The head of Egypt's Journalists Syndicate Yehia Qallash said on Sunday that the syndicate would be ready to hold an urgent general assembly to withdraw confidence from the board if it meets "the legal form."

A military funeral was held in New Cairo’s police academy on Sunday afternoon for eight policemen gunned down by unknown assailants in the capital's southern district of Helwan.

A large delegation of French officials arrived in Cairo on Saturday evening for discussions on future military cooperation between Egypt and France.

The Egyptian government will provide treated Hepatitis C patients with medical certificates to prove their recovery from the infection when applying for jobs, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Egypt's Journalists Syndicate decided Saturday to postpone for a week a general assembly meeting planned for Tuesday to discuss possible strike action if their demands are not met.

Conflicts between the Agriculture Ministry and the Supply Ministry over the provision of Egyptian wheat have escalated, with Supply Ministry officials complaining that expected consignments of wheat have not arrived on time, despite new distribution procedures.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi celebrated on Thursday the harvest of 10,000 wheat feddans in the south-western El-Wadi El-Gadid (New Valley) governorate as part of a national project to expand the country’s farmland by reclaiming 1.5 million feddans nationwide, which was inaugurated in late December.

Egypt has sent Italian investigators some phone records they had requested as part of their probe into the torture and killing of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo earlier this year, a legal source said on Wednesday.

Ruins of a 2,360 year-old temple, which most likely dates back to Egypt’s last Pharaoh, were unearthed from beneath Cairo’s modern district of Ain Shams, said Mahmoud Afifi, head of Ancient Egypt Antiquities Department at the Antiquities Ministry Thursday.

Egypt's cabinet approved Wednesday a mandate for the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) to launch a high-speed 4G mobile network.

The governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), Tarek Amer, has announced that negotiations are underway for a US$2 billion deposit from the UAE to Egypt, to be paid before the end of May.

Egypt's press syndicate says it is giving the government one-week notice to meet its demands, at the head of which is the sacking of the interior minister, after police stormed the union's building earlier this week.

A young Egyptian expatriate was found dead on Saturday evening in the Italian city of Naples, with signs of torture on his face and bruises to the head and jaw, said an Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson on Tuesday.

Former President Hosni Mubarak’s Prime Minister, Ahmed Nazif, was acquitted of profiteering and illicit gain charges Wednesday, stated Egypt’s Court of Cassation Wednesday.

A Cairo misdemeanour court sentenced on Wednesday political activist Sanaa Seif to six months in prison for “insulting the judiciary.”

The general assembly of the Journalists Syndicate announced several decisions, Wednesday, in response to the police's storming of the headquarters on Sunday to arrest journalists Amr Badr and Mahmoud al-Sakka.

Egyptian journalists called for protests on the stairs of downtown Cairo’s Journalists Syndicate on Tuesday on World Press Freedom Day to condemn the police’s unconstitutional storming of the building on Sunday and arrest of two journalists.

A report issued on Tuesday by Transparency International, a global civil society anti-corruption organization, stated that 28 percent of citizens in Egypt believe that corruption rates have increased in 2015.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will meet with a visiting Congressional delegation on Tuesday to discuss counter-terrorism issues and continued military relations between the two countries, the U.S. embassy in Cairo said in a statement Monday.