Egypt is expected to sign a financing agreement worth $500 million with the World Bank next week to support the Upper Egypt Local Development Programme, after the bank's board approved the programme.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir will co-chair a bilateral high committee meeting in Cairo next week, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported on Saturday.

Egypt’s education ministry has set the annual tuition fee increase rate for private schools for the next five years, according to a statement reported by Al-Ahram Arabic.

Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Saturday a five year jail sentence issued to two national security police officers over the torturing of a lawyer to death while in custody in 2015, ordering a retrial.

Egypt's National Council for Women will file a report with the state’s top attorney against a parliamentarian over his "offensive remarks against women in Egypt and abroad," a member of the council said on Saturday.

Egypt's High Administrative Court will hold next Saturday the first session to hear the government's appeal against a court ruling which voided Cairo's decision to acknowledge Saudi sovereignty over two Red Sea islands.

The US Embassy in Cairo condemned on Friday with the "strongest terms" the attack on Egypt's deputy prosecutor-general Zakaria Abd El-Aziz Azmy in New Cairo Thursday, an embassy statement read.

Last week, Egypt’s telecom regulator, the National Telecom Regulatory Authority, said it may offer the 4G service licences by international tender after the three local mobile operators—Vodafone Egypt, Orange Egypt, and Etisalat—declined to apply for it due to terms and conditions of the 4G licence set by NTRA.

Egypt gave the green light on Thursday for Interpol and the European Union to drop charges against Hussein Salem, a businessman ally of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, a senior justice ministry official said.

Nine passengers were rescued from drowning after a microbus fall into an Upper Egypt conduit, Youm7 reported.

A total of 32 Egyptian fishermen have called up on authorities to help them return home after their Saudi sponsors allegedly abused some of them, Youm7 reported from a video.

A court in Cyprus on Friday ordered the extradition of an Egyptian who hijacked an aircraft with a fake explosive belt, diverting it to the island in March.

Egypt wants to receive the second tranches of World Bank and African Development Bank (ADB) loans before the end of this year, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail told Reuters on Thursday.

Air traffic between Russia and Egypt may resume in October, the Russian news agency TASS said on Wednesday, days after talks in Cairo between officials of both countries over the matter.

A New Cairo car explosion on Thursday evening was targeting the country's top prosecutor's assistant, Egypt's interior ministry said in a statement.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is set to fly to Israel to attend the funeral of the late former Israeli President Shimon Peres, a statement by Egypt's foreign ministry reads.

Egypt received on Thursday a second shipment of mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles from the United States that it claims would boost the fighting abilities of the armed forces, a statement by Egypt's army spokesman read.

Egypt stepped up one spot to rank 115th among 138 nations in the Global Competitive Index (GCI) 2016/17, released on Wednesday by the World Economic Forum.

A Cairo Court for Urgent Matters accepted on Thursday a challenge against the Administrative Court verdict issued in June that asserted Egyptian sovereignty over the two Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir.

Egypt is stopping the sale of air tickets for routes starting and ending outside the country as of next week, the aviation ministry said on Thursday, in a bid to help ease an acute shortage of foreign currency in recent months.

Egypt has approved a law that will increase jail terms for those who perform female circumcisions, raising the maximum sentence to seven years from two, according to the state’s official gazette on Wednesday.