The governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), Tarek Amer, has announced that negotiations are underway for a US$2 billion deposit from the UAE to Egypt, to be paid before the end of May.

Egypt's press syndicate says it is giving the government one-week notice to meet its demands, at the head of which is the sacking of the interior minister, after police stormed the union's building earlier this week.

A young Egyptian expatriate was found dead on Saturday evening in the Italian city of Naples, with signs of torture on his face and bruises to the head and jaw, said an Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson on Tuesday.

Former President Hosni Mubarak’s Prime Minister, Ahmed Nazif, was acquitted of profiteering and illicit gain charges Wednesday, stated Egypt’s Court of Cassation Wednesday.

A Cairo misdemeanour court sentenced on Wednesday political activist Sanaa Seif to six months in prison for “insulting the judiciary.”

The general assembly of the Journalists Syndicate announced several decisions, Wednesday, in response to the police's storming of the headquarters on Sunday to arrest journalists Amr Badr and Mahmoud al-Sakka.

Egyptian journalists called for protests on the stairs of downtown Cairo’s Journalists Syndicate on Tuesday on World Press Freedom Day to condemn the police’s unconstitutional storming of the building on Sunday and arrest of two journalists.

A report issued on Tuesday by Transparency International, a global civil society anti-corruption organization, stated that 28 percent of citizens in Egypt believe that corruption rates have increased in 2015.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will meet with a visiting Congressional delegation on Tuesday to discuss counter-terrorism issues and continued military relations between the two countries, the U.S. embassy in Cairo said in a statement Monday.

Egyptian naval forces thwarted an illegal immigration attempt off Egypt's northern coast heading to Europe, the army spokesman said on Sunday.

Several political entities and other syndicates declared their solidarity with the Press Syndicate on Monday, following security forces storming the building to arrest two journalists on Sunday evening.

Egypt's Press Syndicate has called for the immediate sacking of the interior minister and a general assembly on Wednesday in protest of the storming of its headquarters Sunday evening, in what it said was a first since its founding 75 years ago.

A delegation from the Homeland Security Committee of the US Congress arrived in Egypt on Monday to inspect security measures at Cairo and Sharm el-Sheikh airports.

Egypt's public prosecutor demanded on Saturday an investigation into the killing of 13 Egyptians in the Libyan city of Bani Walid earlier in April.

Egypt's Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany did not stop radar surveys on King Tutankhamun’s tomb upon the request of former minister Mamdouh Eldamaty or Egyptologist Nicolas Reeves.

Cairo’s Orman Park and 34 other parks in Egypt are ready to welcome the Sham el-Nessim celebrators, while police have intensified security at visitor attractions Monday.

Egypt's top prosecutor Nabil Sadek ordered on Thursday an investigation into the deaths of two Egyptians who died under suspicious circumstances earlier this month in the United States and the UK.

Hundreds of Egyptian journalists staged a march through central Cairo to the High Court on Thursday, and filed a complaint against Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar and the head of Cairo Security Directorate over police violations against journalists on April 25, a day on which activists had planned large-scale anti-government protests.

Some 1,593 tourists of various nationalities are scheduled to arrive at the Sharm al Sheikh Airport Wednesday aboard 11 international flights, the head of South Sinai’s task force Essam Khedr told Youm7.

The interior ministry has set a plan to "secure" Easter celebrations on Monday May 8th, which includes "secret police" to arrest those who commit sexual harassment, Maj. General Amgad Shafei told Aswat Masriya.

The Egyptian foreign ministry has slammed recent comments by Turkey’s FM about Egypt being “fragile” under President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's leadership, saying that such statements “reflect the psychological state” of Turkish officials since Egypt’s 30 June revolution of 2013.