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.

An anonymous official at the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation told youm7 Thursday that Egypt will announce on Saturday the date of signing contacts between the three countries of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on one side and two European consultant companies, that tasked to conduct studies on the possible negative impact of building the controversial Renaissance dam of Ethiopia on Nile downstream countries.

Egypt supports the Libyan National Army, led by military General Khalifa Haftar to maintain security and stability in Libya and to secure the Libyan oil fileds, said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in media remarks during his visit in New York to prepare for President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s visit.

An Egyptian national was killed in Italian city of Piacenza after a truck, belongs to a company he works for, has ran over him, according to a letter sent to the Egyptian consulate in Milano announced Thursday morning.

The Egyptian-Palestinian border crossing of Rafah re-opened early Friday in both both directions to allow the Palestinian pilgrims return back home after coming from Saudi Arabia where they performed pilgrimage ritual, Palestinian new agency Maan reported Friday.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is set to present Egypt’s vision on efforts being made to settle regional crises in front of the UN’s General Assembly, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has said.

Egypt is set to receive its second Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) warship from France on Friday, state owned news agency MENA reported.

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it has held "very productive discussions" with authorities in China and Saudi Arabia about them contributing to $5 billion to $6 billion in additional bilateral gap financing needed for Egypt.

Egypt’s stocks declined on Thursday on the second day of thin trading following the Eid Al-Adha holiday, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Egypt's deputy Foreign Minister for Multilateral Relations and International Security Hesham Badr will participate in the 17th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which is set to take place on the 17th and 18th of September on Venezuela's Margarita island.

Tourism Committee at the Parliament will hold a meeting with the Ministers of Tourism and Civil Aviation to discuss the latest development between Egypt and Russia over resuming the Russian flights to Egypt, besides EgyptAir’s services to attract more tourists.

A total of 33 Egyptian expatriates arrived in the Cairo International Airport on Thursday after being deported by Saudi authorities for illegal residency, Youm7 reported an official at the airport.

The Central Administration of Pest Control at the Ministry of Agriculture has formed four committees to follow and take all cautious procedures against swarms of the desert locusts along with Egypt’s western and southern borders, Youm7 reported the Administration chairperson Ashraf Abdel-Razeq Thursday.

Eighty percent of construction works of an electricity power plant, which has been built by Siemens, in Ghayadah city iof Sharqia governoarte has completed, Youm7 reported Beni Suif governor Sherif Habib Thursday.

The number of Egyptian pilgrims who died of natural causes during the hajj in Saudi Arabia reached 35 cases Thursday, state news agency MENA reported.

Egypt saw about 200,000 divorce cases during 2015, which marks a 10.8 per cent increase in divorces from the previous year, the official statistics agency revealed on Monday.

The Egypt-led committee tasked with investigating the causes of the Russian airliner crash last October in North Sinai, has yet to reach any results on its causes, sources within the aviation ministry said on Tuesday.

Egypt’s rejection of several shipments of wheat after readopting zero ergot tolerance has "no major impact" on Russian wheat exports, the Russian agriculture ministry said on Wednesday according to Interfax news outlet.

Anti-sexual harassment initiatives are absent from the streets during Eid due to the difficulty they faced in receiving permits from the Interior Ministry to help secure streets and public squares, organisers said.

The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) said its daily gas production has increased by 330 million cubic feet after four new wells were linked to the production map, Youm7 reported on Wednesday.