Egypt said it is working to facilitate the extradition of Egyptian expatriate workers who have been detained -- among many of other nationalities -- by Saudi authorities for violating the country’s labour law.

Masked gunmen killed a police conscript in a drive-by shooting in Giza on Tuesday morning.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said on Sunday that the implementation of a National Anti-Corruption Strategy, launched in December 2014, has improved Egypt's ranking in the Transparency International report, moving the country up from 113th to 84th place out of 176 countries.

The 38th meeting of the Committee of Senior Arab Officials in Charge of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction issues kicked off at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of Arab League in Cairo Monday.

Egypt’s military chief of staff Mahmoud Hegazy headed to Riyadh Monday for a four-day official visit where he will attend the 7th round of meetings of the Egypt-Saudi joint military committee, military spokesperson Mohamed Samir said in a statement.

The Egyptian Agency of Partnership for Development (EAPD) has offered cardiac catheterization device to Ethiopia’s largest general hospital during a celebration on Monday, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Egypt’s trade and industry minister Tarek Kabil and agriculture minister Essam Fayed will appear Monday evening before the House of Representatives’ committee tasked with investigating alleged "wheat corruption," committee member and MP Yasser Omar told Al-Hayat TV channel late Sunday.

The International credit rating agency Fitch said on Monday that for Egypt securing an IMF funding deal would be credit positive for the country's economy, yet warned that risks in implementation are high and the country will continue to face several economic challenges.

Egypt's M2 money supply was up 18.6 percent at the end of June from a year earlier, the central bank said on its website.

The National Falcon Company for Airport Security will start screening luggage and passengers at Sharm El-Sheikh airport Monday, CEO Sherif Khaled said in an interview with weekly economic magazine Al-Ahram Al-Ektesady.

Egyptians will "very soon" be able to purchase U.S. dollars at a unified rate, state television quoted President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as saying on Monday.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Monday that the state is currently facing the challenge of fostering trust between the government and the public and getting people to accept the adoption of "harsh economic measures."

Egypt has opened the Middle East region's biggest hospital unit dedicated to the treatment of stroke patients. The new unit at Qasr al-Aini Medicine School in Cairo will treat patients for free, according to officials.

A senior government official has revealed an International Monatery Fund (IMF) suggestion to fully float the Egyptian pound against the US dollar, during ongoing negotiations for a US$12 billion loan to be paid to Egypt over 3 years.

Russia expects that Egypt will be able to fulfill all necessary air security requirements by the end of October, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Monday.

Egypt’s finance minister said in a television interview on Sunday that Egypt’s external debt would reach $53.4 billion if his country receives an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan.

Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied media reports claiming that Egypt has asked Israel’s mediation in talks between Cairo and Addis Ababa on the Ethiopian controversial Renaissance Dam, state-owned news agency MENA reported ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid said in a statement Monday.

An Egyptian court sentenced two journalists from Al-Ahram online news portal, on Sunday, to prison and a fine respectively for publishing false new about former Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zend.

On Sunday, New Cairo Misdemeanor Court of Appeals set September 8 as the date to review an appeal filed by the former Chief of the Central Auditing Organization (CAO), Hesham Geneina, against a verdict sentencing him to jail for circulating false news.

Telecom Egypt, the country's state-owned landline monopoly, said on Sunday its board had given preliminary approval to a plan to buy a fourth-generation mobile phone license.

Technical studies to build a bridge linking between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over the Red Sea has started, Adel Turk, head of the General Authority for Roads & Bridges and Land Transport was quoted by Youm7 Sunday.