Egypt has called on the European Union to step up efforts to combat illegal immigration, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Royal Dutch Shell announced on Wednesday new natural gas discoveries in a concession area of north Alam El-Shawish in Egypt’s western desert.

President Abdel Fatah al Sisi met with visiting Jordanian Prime Minister Hany al Mulqa on Wednesday and discussed ways to boost bilateral cooperation between both countries in various fields, Youm7 reported.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a hotel in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu on Wednesday, Youm7 reported.

The chief executive of the General Petroleum Corporation, Tareq al-Hadidy, has denied that the looming introduction of a Value-Added Tax (VAT) law will have an impact on the prices of petroleum products such as diesel oil and gasoline.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has received the credentials of eight new ambassadors to Egypt, including the new Israeli ambassador, David Govrin.

Egypt's House of Representatives approved on Wednesday a cabinet bill amending the law criminalising female genital mutilation (FGM), designating the practice a felony, and mandating stricter legal punishments for those convicted of performing the procedure.

Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi flew Thursday to India to kick off an Asian tour that will conclude with China, state news agency MENA said.

Egypt's trade deficit was down 15.7 percent in June compared to the same month last year, to reach EGP 29.7 billion, the state's statistics body, CAPMAS, said in a statement Wednesday.

A new study reveals that overall life expectancy in Egypt has increased in the past two decades but political turmoil resulting from the 2011 uprising caused life expectancy to drop by 0.25 years.

Cairo Administrative Court rejected Wednesday a lawsuit to ban social media websites in Egypt.

Egypt's state-owned telephone company Telecom Egypt has signed a deal to buy a fourth-generation (4G) mobile licence, becoming the first mobile operator to do so in the country.

After his release from prison on Saturday, Amr Badr, editor-in-chief of yanair.net, has spoken about the experience of spending 125 days in remand on charges of alleged support for mass anti-government protests.

The Administrative Judicial Court will issue a ruling regarding a lawsuit demanding authorities to shut down Facebook and Twitter on grounds “they are used in inciting violence acts.”

A policeman was arrested during illegal excavation works along with a group of workers searching for antiquities in Upper Egypt’s Sohag governorate.

Three people were killed and 17 were injured after a bus turned over on El-Geish-Minya Road in Beni Suef governorate.

Ministry of Solidarity has dissolved a total of 350 non-functioning charity associations in Gharbiya governorate; Youm7 quoted Gamal Nassar, an official at the ministry.

Renowned Egyptologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass embarked on a tour around the United States to promote tourism to Egypt.

Egypt's prosecutor-general, Nabil Sadek, will meet his Italian counterpart, Giuseppe Pignatone, in Rome next week as part of the latest round of meetings between investigators from the two countries who are looking into the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni, Italian agency ANSA reported on Tuesday.

The Egyptian, Ethiopian and Sudanese ministers of Water Resources and Irrigation will meet in Khartoum early next week to sign a contract with the French consulting office conducting technical studies on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Two men in Sharqiya have confessed to killing a man in a violent robbery, cutting his throat to order to steal his motorbike and mobile phone, according to security services.