Mona Mina, the undersecretary of the Doctors Syndicate and prominent defender of human rights, was summoned for investigations by prosecution authorities in an urgent session scheduled for Saturday, the syndicate reported Wednesday.

The Egyptian parliamentary delegation currently visiting London has severely criticised statements made by MP Crispin Blunt regarding the Muslim Brotherhood, said member of the parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Tarek Al-Khouly. Blunt, who is head of UK parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said that half of the Egyptian population still supports the Brotherhood, and that they should have stayed in power as the democratically-elected authority.

The number of tourists visiting Egypt increased by 7 percent in October 2016 compared to September 2016, the state's official statistics body CAPMAS announced on Wednesday In an email press statement, CAPMAS highlighted that Western Europe sent the highest number of visitors to Egypt at 36 percent of all visitors to the country in October. Germany contributed 38.8 percent of all western European tourists to Egypt in that month.

The Egyptian government is planning a second phase of economic reforms to be discussed by the cabinet before being presented to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous sources.

The Egyptian pound fell against the US dollar at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) and other Egyptian banks on Tuesday. The banks confirmed that the dollar pricing mechanism is subject only to the principle of supply and demand. They added that the highs and lows in the value of the pound are natural after the liberalisation of the exchange rate.

25 committees for resolving tax disputes will begin their work in the current week according to a decree issued by Minister of Finance Amr El-Garhy to implement tax dispute resolution law 79/2016. El-Garhy said that governorates have already begun to receive financiers’ requests since two weeks ago and the competent committees will begin immediately in studying these requests and take legal procedures to end disputes.

Russian Trade Representative in Cairo Fedor Lukashin said on Sunday evening that the signing ceremony of the Dabaa nuclear power plant contract is expected before the end of the year.

Switzerland will decide in February whether to extend or lift a freeze on deposed Egyptian president Hosni’s Mubarak’s assets in Swiss banks, SwissInfo website reported.

Switzerland will decide in February whether to extend or lift a freeze on deposed Egyptian president Hosni’s Mubarak’s assets in Swiss banks, SwissInfo website reported.

The Front to Defend Freedoms, an Egyptian coalition consisting of a number of political parties and rights organisations, released a statement on the third anniversary of the so-called “Shura protests” calling for the release of people detained in that case as well as a stop to “policies of oppression.”

Egypt's Court of Cassation accepted Sunday the appeal of eight defendants against a previous court order designating them as members of a terrorist organisation in the trial known in the media as "Helwan Brigades."

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated the 20th round of Cairo’s ICT conference and exhibition on Sunday, announcing the launch of two technological sites in the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut and Alexandria's Borg El-Arab.

Leading members of the Egyptian parliament's Social Solidarity Committee said on Sunday that they reject most of the amendments introduced by the government to the new NGO law.

The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) issued Sunday a report on trade exchange between Egypt and East Asian countries for 2015, where China came in first place on exports to Egypt with a value of EGP 74.8bn

Egypt provided assistance to Israel in extinguishing a major fire that broke out Tuesday and spread in several parts of the country, an Egyptian government source told official state news agency MENA on Sunday.

Egypt's foreign ministry denied Sunday recent media reports claiming that Egyptian troops were participating in operations with the Syrian army against rebels in the war-torn country.

Egypt's Meteorological Authority announced on Sunday that thunderstorms and heavy rain will hit the country starting Tuesday, with unstable weather peaking on Thursday and Friday.

Ministers of Irrigation and Agriculture will be summoned by the parliament to be questioned over a decision to entirely ban rice cultivation in Gharbiya governorate, Youm7 reported.

At least eight members of Egypt’s security forces were killed on Thursday in an attack on a checkpoint in the northern Sinai, a military spokesman said in a statement.