Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday praised warming relations with Egypt and its president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who ousted an Islamist government seen as hostile to ties between the neighbors.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry spoke with US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday about regional developments in a phone call, according to an Egyptian foreign ministry statement, two days before Kerry is set to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that the size of Egypt's financing program will be determined by a two-week IMF mission to Cairo starting this weekend.

Egypt's foreign ministry said its envoy in Berlin received on Thursday an official letter from the German foreign ministry stating that an Egyptian national who died in a hospital in Germany's Essen on 22 June had attempted suicide six days earlier.

A Cairo misdemeanor court sentenced Thursday afternoon the country's former top auditor Hisham Geneina to one year in jail and an EGP 20,000 fine for “spreading false news” about alleged corruption in the public sector. The court also set EGP 10,000 bail pending an appeal.

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit Egypt Saturday to hold talks with the Egyptian government on financing the country’s economic reform programme, the organisation said in a statement on Thursday.

Member of Parliament Ahmed Mortada Mansour, candidate for the Free Egyptians party, said he has the right to appeal the court decision on his dismissal, in a press conference on Wednesday.

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit Egypt Saturday to hold talks with the Egyptian government on financing the country’s economic reform programme, the organisation said in a statement on Thursday.

The price of the US dollar has fallen against the Egyptian pound on the black market after the official announcement of negotiations between Egypt and the IMF regarding a US$12 billion loan package.

Egypt has expressed reservations on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) draft resolution to list the Gulen movement as a terrorist organisation, an official in the Islamic organisation said.

Health Minister Ahmed Emad Eddin has announced the end of government waiting lists for patients seeking the latest drug treatment for hepatitis-C.

EgyptAir has announced "positive" results in a recent inspection of key sites at Cairo International Airport by the Star Alliance group

Egypt's minister of petroleum and mineral resources has signed two agreements for oil and gas exploration in upper Egypt with U.S. company IPR and Cyprus subsidiary Mediterra, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

Egypt’s official statistics agency said on Tuesday that the Egyptian poverty line stands at an income of LE5,787.9 annually and LE482 monthly, 48 per cent higher than in 2012/2013.

Egyptian authorities are ready to provide Moscow with the latest information on the progress of Cairo's probe into the crash of a Russian passenger jet over Sinai last October, a Russian spokesman said Wednesday.

There is no evidence that the recent death of an Egyptian national in Germany was a result of a criminal act, the German Embassy in Cairo said on Wednesday.

An army conscript was killed in North Sinai governorate on Wednesday in a bombing while another three conscripts were injured, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Egypt says it has not received any request for political asylum by Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of masterminding a failed coup attempt on 15 July.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Wednesday that a loan deal Egypt may secure with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will help boost international confidence in the country's flagging economy,

Egypt's official statistics agency says the bulk of Egyptians' spending on ‎education goes to private tutoring, according to data published Tuesday.

Egypt's stock market rose sharply early on Wednesday in response to news that Cairo was near agreeing an International Monetary Fund lending programme.