Egypt is currently hosting refugees within its borders with no outside help, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said during a speech delivered on Tuesday in Portugal.

Egypt’s former prime minister Ibrahim Mahlab called on Tuesday on French businessmen to invest in the country, especially in the tourism industry, and called on French citizens to visit the country.

A Cairo court has set 25 December to hear an appeal by the head of Egypt’s press syndicate and two board members against a ruling earlier this week sentencing the trio to two years in prison for harbouring fugitives inside the syndicate's headquarters.

Cairo’s governor has increased the tariffs of the city’s white taxis by 25 percent in the wake of hikes in fuel prices earlier this month, part of a package of government economic reforms.

The Cairo Criminal Court ordered on Tuesday former interior minister Habib El-Adly and 12 of his underlings to be placed under house arrest for the duration of their trial on charges of illicit gains, and postponed the trial to 13 December.

A Cairo court has set 25 December to hear an appeal by the head of Egypt’s press syndicate and two board members against a ruling earlier this week sentencing the trio to two years in prison for harbouring fugitives inside the syndicate's headquarters.

Russia's transport ministry said that Egyptian aviation authorities have made significant progress in complying with Russia’s aviation safety requirements, Russian news agency TASS reported on Monday.

Egypt’s former defence minister Hussein Tantawi and parliamentary speaker Ali Abdel-Aal held a meeting on Monday with top Aswan governorate officials to discuss possible solutions to an ongoing sit-in by Nubians protesting the allocation of land in their area to non-Nubians, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail met with a delegation of parliament members to discuss possible solutions to end an ongoing sit-in staged by Nubians at the Abu Simbel-Aswan highway to protest the government’s plan to sell land- they claim to be their ancestral territory- to investors, state news agency MENA reported.

Cairo governor Atef Abdel Hamid approved the new tariff for Cairo’s white taxi saying that it will come into force as of Tuesday, Youm7 reported.

The government committee tasked with managing funds of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group has ordered the confiscation of assets of 46 group members as well as five companies, Youm7 reported.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Monday asserted that Egypt plays a pivotal role in achieving security and stability in the Middle East region.

EgyptAir is launching a new service in cooperation with National Bank of Egypt that will allow the bank’s customers to pay for flight tickets in installments, MENA agency reported.

Donald Trump said Monday the United States would signal its withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact on his first day in the White House, one of six immediate steps aimed at "putting America first."

Egypt’s local lenders have collected around $3 billion since the decision to liberalise the pound’s exchange rate against the foreign currencies earlier this month, state news agency MENA reported on Monday citing a central bank official.

Prominent politician, lawyer and professor of constitutional law Yahia El-Gamal passed away Monday at the age of 86 after a struggle with illness.

Italian oil major Eni said its Egypt Nooros field is a producing almost 900 million cubic feet of gas per day and will top 1 billion cubic feet per day in the first quarter of 2017, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported.

Egypt's President Abdel- Fattah El-Sisi has issued a presidential decree to transfer oversight of the Agricultural Development and Credit Bank from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), renaming it the Egyptian Agricultural Bank.

Egypt's President Abdel- Fattah El-Sisi has issued a presidential decree to transfer oversight of the Agricultural Development and Credit Bank from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), renaming it the Egyptian Agricultural Bank.

The Ministry of Antiquities has announced that the Kom Al-Shoqafa catacombs in Alexandria are safe and have not been submerged in water, as published in some news reports and on social media.

Egypt’s court of urgent matters will resume consideration of a retrial calls for ban the political movement of “Tamarud” and to freeze its assets, Youm7 reported on Monday.