Egypt's state grain buyer GASC received four offers from suppliers at its international wheat purchase tender on Thursday after amending some of the terms, traders said.

Egypt's parliament will reconvene 4 October, starting its second legislative session aftera parliamentary recess, a presidential decree announced Thursday.

Hundreds of migrants are still missing and dozens others confirmed dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt on Wednesday.

Egypt’s central bank plans to float the United Bank of Egypt, in which it holds a 99 percent stake, in an initial public offering, Governor Tarek Amer said on a talk show on Sunday.

Egypt’s three existing mobile phone operators have declined to buy its fourth-generation licenses, two Egyptian telecoms officials told Reuters on Thursday.

A total of 788 Palestinian pilgrims will return back home Thursday exceptional re-opening of Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, Youm7 reported an Egyptian official at the crossing.

Minister of Defense Gen. Sedky Sobhy has met with Cairo-visiting Greek Minister of National Defense Panos Kammenos, according to a statement on the Egyptian ministry website on Thursday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met with members of the U.S. National Security Council in New York City, on the sidelines of the United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday, said Egytpian Presidential Spokesperson Alaa Youssef in a statement.

Egypt's Transportation Minister Galal Said announced that the construction of the underground metro station in Zamalek neighborhood, which is part of Cairo's third metro line, will begin in two weeks time, Al Ahram Arabic website reported.

Egypt's travel payments rose from US$3.3 billion to $4.1 billion in the fiscal year 2015/2016, creating a net outflow in Egypt's travel balance for the first time, the Central Bank of Egypt said on Wednesday.

Egypt's trade deficit has narrowed by $7 billion since January, Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Kabil said on Tuesday, adding that exports could rise by 10 percent - helping close the trade gap even more - if authorities devalued the local currency.

A policeman were killed and two others injured in an attack by gunmen in Arish city, North Sinai governorate, on Thursday.

Egypt ranks among the world's lowest-spending countries when it comes to research and development (R&D), with overall spending below that required by the Egyptian Constitution and well below Sustainable Development Goals, according to figures presented in a new UNESCO report.

Egypt deals with US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton "on equal footing," presidency spokesman Alaa Youssef said Thursday.

Italy will operate 11 direct flights to Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh amid efforts by Cairo to revive tourism in the city, which declined over the past year after the crash of a Russian airliner over Sinai in 2015.

Egypt’s reversed on Wednesday its zero-tolerance decision for wheat imports containing ergot fungus, to reinstating a 0.05 percent tolerance policy, which is a widely applied international standard, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported citing the agriculture minister. Egypt’s reversed on Wednesday its zero-tolerance decision for wheat imports containing ergot fungus, to reinstating a 0.05 percent tolerance policy, which is a widely applied international standard, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported citing the agriculture minister.

Egypt's health ministry announced on Wednesday evening that the death toll in the capsizing of a boat carrying migrants off Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Rosetta has reached 42.

A political solution must be reached between all parties, excluding terrorist groups, to end the Syrian crisis, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said at the United Nations Security Council's crisis meeting on Wednesday in New York.

Technical studies on the potential impact of Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam on Egypt and Sudan are set to begin soon and will take 11 months to complete, Egypt's irrigation ministry spokesman said one day after a contract was signed with the two firms tasked with conducting the studies.

A Russian delegation of transport and aviation experts arrived late Tuesday in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada to inspect recently implemented security measures at the city's airport in preparation for resuming direct flights between Russia and Egypt, according to a statement by the civil aviation ministry.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi responded for the first time to US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the US in a CNN interview one day after El-Sisi's meeting with Trump, the first the candidate has had with a Muslim world leader.