Health Ministry Spokesperson Khaled Megahed has said that women must undergo a breast examination to determine who is entitled to receive subsidized infant milk.

Qalubiya security services have redoubled investigations into several donkey skeletons found by villagers of Aghour, in one of the canals of the Qalubiya governorate.

The World Bank has provided Egypt with the first $1 billion tranche of a $3 billion loan, as part of its support for the government's economic programme, the Ministry of International Cooperation said Friday.

The first Turkish plane to arrive to Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh in over 10 months landed in the early hours of Sunday, carrying 154 tourists of different nationalities, state news agency MENA reported.

Egypt welcomed Saturday a US-Russia sponsored truce in war-torn Syria, and called on all parties to adhere to the ceasefire, scheduled to take effect across all Syria Monday, a foreign affairs ministry statement read.

A statement released by Egypt's top prosecutor Nabil Sadek confirmed that Egyptian police had investigat Italian student Giulio Regeni before his murder but suspended the operation after three days.

Human Rights Watch has hailed a move by Egypt's parliament to stiffen punishments for carrying out female genital mutilation, calling the move "a step toward eliminating the practice" but demanding further reforms.

Egypt's new value-added tax was officially implemented on Friday shortly after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified it, Egypt's finance ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

Ahmed Saadeddin, the secretary-general of Egypt's parliament, unveiled Saturday the details of a one-day celebration aimed at marking the 150th anniversary of the inception of parliamentary life in Egypt.

An Egyptian administrative court ruled on Saturday that non-governmental organisations have the right to foreign funding to aid development work in the country.

A security source in North Sinai said that four militants were killed and 12 terrorist hubs were destroyed amid security operation over the past few hours, according to Youm7.

A group called “Hasm Movement” claimed responsibility for the killing of a low-ranking police officer in Cairo’s southern city of 6 October on Thursday, Youm7 reported.

A Tunisian delegation to Egypt said that the country’s security and safe status enhances more cooperation between both countries, Youm7 reported.

A total of 11,000 tons of agricultural leftovers have been collected from different sites in Mansoura city, Dakahlia in a bid by the government to confront the “black clouds,” announced the Ministry of Environment.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg "strongly condemned" on Friday North Korea's fifth and largest nuclear test, telling Pyongyang it must drop all nuclear and ballistic missile activities.

Egyptian investigators have fit together some of the fragments of a Russian passenger jet that crashed over Sinai last October and identified the area where the plane's disintegration most likely began, the commission probing the crash said Thursday.

Egyptair has allocated 24,000 seats aboard 251 additional and regular flights to Egyptians planning to spend the Eid al Adha holiday in the Red Sea resort cities of Sharm al Sheikh and Hurghada, Chairman of Egypt’s national carrier Safwat Musallam was quoted by Youm7 on Thursday.

Defense Minister Sadqy Sobhy ordered the armed forces public services department to distribute 1.5 million free food rations to the neediest citizens in several governorates nationwide on the occasion of Eid al Adha, Youm7 reported on Thursday.

Defense Minister Sadqy Sobhy ordered the armed forces public services department to distribute 1.5 million free food rations to the neediest citizens in several governorates nationwide on the occasion of Eid al Adha, Youm7 reported on Thursday.

Egypt's prosecutor general Nabil Sadek ordered the detention of Al-Ayyat train driver for four days pending investigations over accusations of murder and attempted murder of 35 people in Giza's Al Ayyat deadly train crash that killed 5 people.

An Egyptian administrative court ruled on Thursday that the interior ministry must strip Egyptian citizenship from Egyptians who have married Israelis, in order to protect the country's national security.