Egypt's foreign ministry denounced on Sunday a White House statement calling for the release from prison of Egyptian-US activist Aya Hegazy, who is jailed over accusations of "exploiting street children."

Egypt's new supply minister has sacked the chairman of the Egyptian Holding Company for Silos and Storage and the head of the country's Internal Trade Development Agency, the state-owned MENA news agency reported on Sunday.

Egypt will send a technical delegation to Russia at the end of September from the ministries of trade and agriculture to discuss the temporary ban by Russia on the import of Egyptian agricultural products, Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry Tarek Kabil announced Saturday night after meeting with the Russian ambassador to Cairo.

The number of housing units constructed in Egypt during the past five years is 1.2 million, with investments up to EGP 109.6 billion by the public and private sectors, a CAPMAS report revealed on Sunday.

Egyptian national was killed by a truck in Italy city of Piacenza was accidentally standing near a protest by a group of Postmen when the truck, belongs to the company where he was working for, ran over him, his mother told 90 Minutes talk show on Mehwar channel on Saturday evening.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday called on the international community to work towards curtailing the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction as well as combating terrorism during a meeting of a large Cold War-era bloc in Venezuela.

Russia's food safety watchdog has banned fruit and vegetable imports from Egypt over sanitary concerns, following an earlier decision by Egypt that hurt Russian wheat imports.

The spokesman for Egypt’s Agriculture Ministry Eid Hawash said Friday that his country won’t allow any shipment of wheat that contains even the slightest percent of the “carcinogen” ergot fungus.

Egypt’s security forces foiled an illegal migration attempt by 45 people, including 31 Egyptians and 14 Sudanese to Libya through the western border crossing of Sallum, Youm7 reported Saturday.

A meeting was held between Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Venezuela, the official Twitter account of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said on Saturday.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi left to New York on Sunday to take part in the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, state news agency MENA reported.

Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia are set to sign the contracts with two foreign consultancy firms hired to study the impact of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) on downriver countries on 19-20 Sept in Khartoum, Egypt's irrigation ministry spokesman announced Saturday.

Twenty Egyptian MPs will head to New York on Sunday to participate in the upcoming UN General Assembly (UNGA) meetings.

Egypt's civil aviation ministry told Ahram Online on Saturday the Egyptian committee investigating the crash of EgyptAir plane in May over the Mediterranean did not receive any new evidence from French investigators, a day after a French newspaper reported that their side found traces of TNT in the plane's debris.

An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld an administrative order of asset freeze against five well known Egyptian rights activists over accusations of receiving foreign funding to destabilise the country following the 2011 uprising.

The commander-in-chief of Egypt's navy raised the Egyptian flag Friday on board the Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock which Cairo bought from France in 2015, state-owned MENA agency reported.

Egyptian border guards have found the decomposed body of a young Egyptian man on Tiran Island, located in the southern entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba.

Twenty-two people went down with food poisoning on Thursday evening after eating a meal at a famous hotel in Ras Sedr on the Gulf of Suez.

US Representative Don Beyer called for the immediate release of Aya Hegazy, detained in connection with the case against the Belady Foundation for Street Children.

Four charter direct flights from Germany arrived in Luxor International Airport on Thursday carrying 480 tourists, Youm7 reported.

After 5-month hiatus, the Cairo Criminal Court will resume trail of former President Hosni Mubarak’s sons (Gamal and Alaa) and six other defendants over charges of stock embezzlement on Saturday, Youm7 reported Friday.