Russia's food safety watchdog has banned fruit and vegetable imports from Egypt over sanitary concerns, following an earlier decision by Egypt that hurt Russian wheat imports.

The spokesman for Egypt’s Agriculture Ministry Eid Hawash said Friday that his country won’t allow any shipment of wheat that contains even the slightest percent of the “carcinogen” ergot fungus.

Egypt’s security forces foiled an illegal migration attempt by 45 people, including 31 Egyptians and 14 Sudanese to Libya through the western border crossing of Sallum, Youm7 reported Saturday.

A meeting was held between Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Venezuela, the official Twitter account of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said on Saturday.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi left to New York on Sunday to take part in the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, state news agency MENA reported.

Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia are set to sign the contracts with two foreign consultancy firms hired to study the impact of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) on downriver countries on 19-20 Sept in Khartoum, Egypt's irrigation ministry spokesman announced Saturday.

Twenty Egyptian MPs will head to New York on Sunday to participate in the upcoming UN General Assembly (UNGA) meetings.

Egypt's civil aviation ministry told Ahram Online on Saturday the Egyptian committee investigating the crash of EgyptAir plane in May over the Mediterranean did not receive any new evidence from French investigators, a day after a French newspaper reported that their side found traces of TNT in the plane's debris.

An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld an administrative order of asset freeze against five well known Egyptian rights activists over accusations of receiving foreign funding to destabilise the country following the 2011 uprising.

The commander-in-chief of Egypt's navy raised the Egyptian flag Friday on board the Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock which Cairo bought from France in 2015, state-owned MENA agency reported.

Egyptian border guards have found the decomposed body of a young Egyptian man on Tiran Island, located in the southern entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba.

Twenty-two people went down with food poisoning on Thursday evening after eating a meal at a famous hotel in Ras Sedr on the Gulf of Suez.

US Representative Don Beyer called for the immediate release of Aya Hegazy, detained in connection with the case against the Belady Foundation for Street Children.

Four charter direct flights from Germany arrived in Luxor International Airport on Thursday carrying 480 tourists, Youm7 reported.

After 5-month hiatus, the Cairo Criminal Court will resume trail of former President Hosni Mubarak’s sons (Gamal and Alaa) and six other defendants over charges of stock embezzlement on Saturday, Youm7 reported Friday.

An anonymous official at the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation told youm7 Thursday that Egypt will announce on Saturday the date of signing contacts between the three countries of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on one side and two European consultant companies, that tasked to conduct studies on the possible negative impact of building the controversial Renaissance dam of Ethiopia on Nile downstream countries.

Egypt supports the Libyan National Army, led by military General Khalifa Haftar to maintain security and stability in Libya and to secure the Libyan oil fileds, said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in media remarks during his visit in New York to prepare for President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s visit.

An Egyptian national was killed in Italian city of Piacenza after a truck, belongs to a company he works for, has ran over him, according to a letter sent to the Egyptian consulate in Milano announced Thursday morning.

The Egyptian-Palestinian border crossing of Rafah re-opened early Friday in both both directions to allow the Palestinian pilgrims return back home after coming from Saudi Arabia where they performed pilgrimage ritual, Palestinian new agency Maan reported Friday.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is set to present Egypt’s vision on efforts being made to settle regional crises in front of the UN’s General Assembly, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has said.

Egypt is set to receive its second Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) warship from France on Friday, state owned news agency MENA reported.