Egyptian students staged 807 protests during the 2014-2015 academic year extending between October 2014 and June 2015, an independent report has shown.

The Nile River Police unit has started to evacuate Nile leisure boats (known locally as feluccas) docked in front of the former National Democratic Party (NDP) building on the Nile Corniche in Cairo Sunday, despite the refusal of their owners.

Egypt's market extended its heavy losses on Sunday's session, as the benchmark EGX30 index fell 5.42 percent, to its lowest level in 20 months, as stocks were sold across the board.

Two international consultation firms were given a deadline on Sept. 5 to submit an edited version of their technical study on the controversial Ethiopian Dam to be reviewed by experts from Cairo, Addis Ababa and Khartoum.

Tens of low-ranking police officers attempted to storm the Sharqeya Security Directorate, after the arrival of anti-riot troops from the Central Security Forces (CSF) Sunday morning.

The Egyptian press syndicate condemned on Sunday "halting the printing of newspapers and intervening in their contents."

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week in efforts to boost strategic ties and economic cooperation between both states, the presidency announced on Thursday.

More citizens will be exempted from the income tax, as the government approved on Wednesday to increase the exemption bracket from 5,000 EGP ($638) to 6,500 EGP ($830) a year.

Egypt had defended a controversial anti-terrorism law, saying “respect of Egypt’s independence of decision taking is a must.”

A total of 27 French tourists were rescued Thursday after their boat collided with coral reefs and sank in Marsa Alam city, on the western shore of the Red Sea, reported Youm7.

The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) held Wednesday a press conference attended by syndicate leaders to discuss their objections to the much-debated Civil Service law.

Last week, under the blazing heat that has been sweeping the country, thousands of workers – mostly tax authority employees — protested the new civil services law.

The United States denounced Egypt's newly expanded counterterrorism law Tuesday, expressing concern about its potential impact on human rights in the country, a military ally of the US.

Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says it’s inviting an Egyptologist behind a theory that the tomb of Queen Nefertiti may be located behind King Tutankhamun’s 3,300-year-old tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings.

Three more have died of heatstroke, mostly amongst senior citizens, and hundreds of others have succumbed to ill health across Egypt on Tuesday according to Ministry of Health reports.

After two days of opening the Rafah border crossing in both directions, 3,639 people have gone through the land crossing, either entering or exiting the besieged Gaza strip.

A project to reclaim land in Egypt’s western desert has been expanded to one and half million feddans of prospective agricultural land, state-owned news agency MENA reported on Monday.

An Irish delegation headed by Chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affair in Houses of the Oireachtas Deputy Pat Breen, arrives in Cairo Tuesday to discuss the release of a dual Egyptian-Irish citizen, according to a statement published Monday on Breen’s official website.

Dostour Party President Hala Shukrallah said in an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm that she resigned on Sunday due to ongoing internal differences, adding that her resignation is final.

Eight people died on Monday as a result of the brutal heat Egypt has been experiencing over the past few weeks, the Health Ministry said.

The Qatari Foreign Affairs issued an apology Tuesday to the Egyptian authorities after Qatari diplomat Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Hajri was arrested for the possession of cannabis, Youm7 reported.