New police law amendments that were passed on Tuesday by Egypt’s House of Representatives ban police officers from speaking to the media except after receiving permission, and also ban officers from forming independent unions and joining political parties.

As Poland lifted a travel ban imposed last year on Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh, a plane carrying 183 passengers from the Eastern Europe country landed Wednesday morning in the South Sinai resort for the first time since an October 2015 deadly crash of a Russian airliner over the peninsula triggered bans on travel to Sharm.

Egypt’s annual headline inflation remained unchanged in July 2016 from the month before, registering 14.8 percent, up from 8.3 percent in the same month last year, state statistics body CAPMAS said in an emailed statement Wednesday.

Egypt considers the recently-issued UK Home Office guidance allowing members of the Muslim Brotherhood to apply for asylum in Britain as "not positive" for the mutual relations between both countries, foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said at a press conference in Cairo.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi stressed on Wednesday Egypt's full support for efforts to restore peace and stability in South Sudan during a meeting with Festus Mogae, the Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) for South Sudan, in Cairo.

Journalists Amr Badr and Mahmoud al-Sakka have been remanded into custody for the fifth time over charges of publishing false news, inciting protests, and attempting to bring down the administration of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Egypt’s press syndicate officials say they are about to set to redraft the union’s “outdated” legislation to set up new membership regulations and provide protections for the country’s journalists.

A one-year-old child has been found under a bed in Mahalla General Hospital, Gharbiya governorate, with a note written by her poverty-stricken father, asking somebody to take care of her.

Egypt’s House of Representatives on Tuesday has endorsed a draft law to extend the participation of the military in securing and protecting public and vital facilities from two to five years, Youm7 reported.

A lawsuit was filed to Egypt’s Attorney General Nabil Sadek against Education Minister accusing him of “rigging” the Egyptian history after all references to the era of Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak were reportedly removed from history textbooks, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

Egypt's parliament on Tuesday set prison sentences of between three and 10 years in jail and fines of up to LE5 million (US$563,000) for traders selling foreign currency on the black market.

Egypt's Water Resources and Irrigation Ministry is on high alert ahead of the annual flooding of the River Nile, which this year promises to be unusually heavy, but says the additional water can be stored for use during "lean years".

Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry and his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides discussed in a meeting on Tuesday the launching of the Egypt-Greece-Cyprus Trilateral Summit to boost cooperation, which will take place in Cairo next October, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met on Tuesday the vice president of the Libyan presidential council Ahmed Maetig in Cairo where they discussed the latest developments in Libya, the Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi appointed on Tuesday Hisham Badawy as the new head of the country's Central Auditing Agency.

The number of tourists coming to Egypt dropped by 50 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to the same period last year, the head of Egypt's Tourism Authority Samy Mahmoud said.

The UK Home Office's recent decision to grant politically active Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members the right to seek asylum in the United Kingdom under certain conditions has drawn sharp criticism in Egypt's political circles.

A Cairo criminal court referred to investigation on Tuesday accusations made by leading Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed El-Beltagy that he was tortured by leading interior ministry officials.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has kept on Tuesday the Egyptian pound stable against the US dollar at 8.78 in its weekly forex auction, state news agency MENA reported. The bank sold this week a total of $117.9 million of the $120 million it offers.

Major General Ali Abdel Mawla, deputy interior minister for legal affairs, has told a parliamentary human rights committee that claims of forced disappearance by security forces are unfounded, based largely on false allegations from the Muslim Brotherhood.

Turkish Airlines announced in a statement on Tuesday it plans to resume its flights to Sharm el-Sheikh starting September 10, 2016.