Egypt's parliament will begin its second legislative session on Tuesday in Cairo after concluding a one-month summer recess.

Egypt has declined to respond to recent remarks by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan where he said a normalisation of ties with Cairo at present would be "unethical."

The head of Egypt's Lawyers Syndicate Sameh Ashour filed on Sunday a case challenging the newly ratified Value Added Tax (VAT) law in Administrative Court, demanding its repeal.

Egypt resumed its exporting of fruits and vegetables to Russia on 1 October after Russia lifted an import ban on Egyptian produce, a Russian embassy official told state news agency MENA on Monday.

Egypt’s stock benchmark rocketed up in Monday session after disseminating media reports saying that decision makers of the Ventral Bank of Egypt (CBE) would do further devaluation of the Egyptian pound, Youm7 reported

China is the main financer of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital project, providing US$35 billion of the $45 billion cost, almost 77.7 percent, the US news website World Tribune reports.

Egypt will soon announce a tender for a new security system for Cairo Airport employees involving retinal scans, in an attempt to meet Russian conditions to resume flights to Egypt, Egyptian Aviation officials said on Sunday.

The Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport received 22 flights carrying more than 1,699 Egyptian and foreign tourists on Monday as part of promotional initiative to boost domestic tourism.

Egyptian security forces have foiled an illegal migration attempt by a total of 96 unregistered migrants along the western border crossing of Sallum before feeling into Libya, Youm7 reported on Monday.

Egyptian-American chemical physicist Mostafa A. El-Sayed was elected to be the president of the Zewail City of Science and Technology to be a successor to the late Nobel Prize laureate Ahmed Zewail, said the city spokesperson Sherif Fouad in a statement on Sunday.

The Egyptian Embassy in Washington retrieved five ancient Egyptian artifacts that were stolen and smuggled to the US in the wake of the security lapse caused by the 2011 uprising, the foreign ministry announced in a Sunday statement.

Egypt’s exports to Turkey increased by 9.3 percent during the first half of 2016 to reach 5.2 billion EGP ($0.58b) up from 4.7 billion EGP during the same period last year, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced in a Sunday report.

Egypt Finance Minister Amr el Garhy is set to travel to the US on Tuesday to take part in the 2016 annual meetings of the boards of governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank group, scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C., October 3-9, Youm7 reported.

The Beheira prosecution ordered on Sunday the detention of four men pending investigation into charges of arranging the trip for migrants on the boat that sank off the Rosetta coast late last month.

Egyptian business tycoon Hussein Salem's family argues that his payment of billions of pounds to the government in exchange for the dropping of charges against him is "unlawful," with his daughter referring to the funds as "donations," the family said in an interview with prominent TV host Amr Adib on his show Kol Youm.

Egypt condemns in the "strongest terms" the Houthi attack against an Emirati maritime vessel in the strategic Bab Al-Mandab strait in the Red Sea, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Sunday.

During his visit to Japan to inaugurate the Pyramid Builders exhibition in its fifth round, Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany witnessed the signing of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) between the Tokyo National Museum and the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM).

Egypt's flagship airline EgyptAir is set to resume Luxor-London trips starting Monday following a one-year suspension of flights between the two destinations, a statement by the airline read on Sunday.

A delegation of the African Development Bank (ADB) arrived in Egypt ahead of delivering the second tranche of its loan to the country.

China has ranked the 23rd among the top states investing in Egypt, Youm7 quoted Mohamed Khodeir, the chief executive of the General Authority for Investment.

Three workers in an electrical company were killed and three of their colleagues were injured when the vehicle transporting them to work hit an IED in the west of Al Arish city in North Sinai, state news agency MENA reported.