French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived at Cairo International Airport on Saturday evening, airport sources said.

The Egyptian government has proposed a draft bill to amend a law on the illegal immigration-related crimes, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail told reporters on Saturday.

An Egyptian team is in Russia on Sunday to discuss a ban placed on Egyptian agricultural exports, Egyptian daily Al-Ahram has reported.

Russia said talks with Egypt on civil aviation security cooperation have seen significant progress with Cairo seeking the resumption of air traffic between the two countries.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi called on Saturday for the prosecution of "wrongdoers" behind the capsizing of a migrant boat on Wednesday which killed at least 165 people, according to a statement.

An Egyptian parliamentary delegation who visited New York last week to rally support for Egypt's political and economic reforms told reporters that Donald Trump would be a "good friend" of Egypt in comparison with Hillary Clinton.

The official death toll from the capsizing of a migrant boat off the coast of Egypt on Wednesday had climbed to 165 on Saturday morning, with 52 families still looking for their missing relatives.

Egypt’s interior ministry said Saturday it has arrested 17 Muslim Brotherhood members while they were meeting to devise ways to sabotage the Egyptian economy.

Egypt’s environment ministry said a shark recently spotted by tourists in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh is of a dangerous and aggressive species.

In a report published on Wednesday, the Central Bank announced that revenues from Suez Canal traffic decreased by 4.5 percent in the 2015-2016 fiscal year compared to the previous year, with total revenues of $5.1 billion compared to $5.4 billion for the 2014-2015 fiscal year.

Cairo Airport authorities have launched an investigation after of a bag was detected coming from Qatar containing a large number of electrical circuits used in explosive devices.

Egypt's Damanhour prosecution ordered Thursday the detention for four days pending investigations of four of the crew of a boat for illegal migrants that capsized in the Mediterranean Wednesday.

Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany inaugurated this afternoon the Malawi Museum in Al-Minya governorate in the presence of Essam Bedawi, Al-Minya governor, and a number of foreign ambassadors and heads of foreign archaeological institutes.

Italy’s Eni has upgraded the potential production of the Egyptian Nile Delta gas field, Baltim South West, to 1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas, the company stated on its website on Thursday.

Leading MPs affiliated with Egypt parliament's human rights committee said in a statement on Thursday that the committee has never faced security restrictions or police harassment regarding its work during parliament's first session, which adjourned for summer recess on 7 September.

A Giza juvenile court sentenced five minors to 5 years in prison and fines of EGP 100,000 each on Thursday for their participation in protests against an Egyptian-Saudi Red Sea maritime border demarcation agreement in April that determined two Red Sea islands controlled by Egypt belonged to Saudi Arabia.

The Central Bank of Egypt decided to keep interest rates unchanged from July at a meeting of its monetary policy committee on Thursday.

Egypt's telecom regulator, the National Telecom Regulatory Authority, said it may offer the fourth-generation (4G) service licences by international tender after the three local mobile operators - Vodafone Egypt, Orange Egypt, and Etisalat - declined to apply for it, MENA agency reported.

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.