Egypt has asked JPMorgan, Citi, BNP Paribas and Natixis to lead manage its international bond offer, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

Police investigators are searching for a group of Bedouins they suspect of killing a judge and wounding a policeman during a land dispute in New Cairo on Wednesday evening.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified on Wednesday amendments to the country's police law banning members of the police from participating in protests, joining political groups, or speaking to the media without prior authorisation, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Four international investment banks were selected by Egypt to issue 3 billion dollar-denominated eurobonds in the global bond market, the finance ministry announced on Thursday.

Egypt is currently negotiating for a $1 billion fund from China to finance local sanitation projects, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Wednesday, citing Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr.

The head of the Egyptian parliament's Human Rights Committee Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat and other nine MPs are likely to be investigated for attending a conference in Geneva on human rights without getting prior parliamentary approval, parliament's deputy speaker Soliman Wahdan disclosed in a statement to reporters on Wednesday.

Egypt's prosecutors in the coastal city of Alexandria are probing a money robbery from a provincial security headquarters, Ahram Arabic news website reported on Wednesday.

A total of 500 Chinese businessmen are to visit Egypt by the end of August to discuss potential investment opportunities in the Suez Canal region, Ahram Arabic website reported.

The prosecutor's office in Alexandria governorate has ordered thorough investigations into reports of several kidnappings of women in the past week.

Border guards in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Matrouh thwarted an attempt by two Syrians to infiltrate into Libyan territories via the Sallum border crossing on Tuesday, Youm7 reported.

President Abdel Fatah al Sisi on Tuesday met with Housing Minister Moustafa Madbouly to discuss the progress in the construction of the country’s new administrative capital city, Youm7 reported.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met on Tuesday with Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam in Beirut and discussed solutions to end the presidential vacuum in Lebanon, which has been ongoing since 2014.

The Egyptian Presidency denied media reports claiming that it has purchased new 4 air jets from France’s Dassault Aviation, presidential source told Youm7, describing the reports as “baseless.”

Egypt’s telecoms industry regulator has approved the final terms for 4G mobile broadband network licences and will send the forms out to licensee companies on Sunday, a senior official at Egypt’s Telecommunications Ministry told Reuters.

International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr will sign a cooperation protocol on a grant worth $2.4 million with officials from the Middle East and North Africa Transition Fund on Wednesday, Youm7 reported.

A total of one million and 700,000 poor families have been registered to receive a monthly pension as part of the “Takafol and Karama” Project, according Ahmed Latif, an official at the project.

The Egyptian government has opened channels of communication with a number of Arab countries and international institutions to provide up to US$ 5 billion in financial aid over three years, in addition to the $12 billion loan expected from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The Egyptian navy has seized a large haul of marijuana on the coast of the Red Sea governorate, according to the Military Spokesperson Mohamed Samir’s Facebook page.

The Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Khaled Hanafy inaugurated on Tuesday an operation line for gold in coordination with the Saudi jeweler, L'azurde group, in an effort to ease both the sharp rise in gold prices and the financial burden on Egypt.

Egypt’s public prosecution appealed on Tuesday against a court decision clearing former president Mohamed Mursi of the espionage charge, in a case dubbed as espionage with Qatar, before the Court of Cassation.

Egypt's smart-card system for selling subsidised food will soon fall under the authority of the military production ministry instead of the ministries of supply and planning, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Tuesday.