Egypt expects to seal a final deal to receive a $12 billion International Monetary Fund loan package within two months, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said in a TV interview on Monday.

An appeal against a new Value Added Tax (VAT), which was introduced in a recent law, has been postponed to November 6.

Japan has signed a deal to provide US$460 million in funding for the construction of Egypt's Grand Museum.

Egypt’s First National Youth Conference will kick off on Tuesday for three days in Sharm El-Sheikh, supervised by the presidency and attended by several political parties and groups.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met in Cairo on Monday with a delegation of US businessmen headed by US Ambassador David Thorne, the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State for economic issues, to discuss strategic and economic cooperation between the United States and Egypt, the Egyptian Presidency announced.

Ismailiya prosecution ordered on Monday the detention of El-Mostakbal Prison's warden and chief inspector for four days pending investigations into the escape of inmates from the prison last week, Ahram Arabic website reported.

Egyptian authorities raided and confiscated the sugar supply of the Edita Company on Thursday and Saturday, causing production to halt amid a market-shortage and rapid price hikes, the company's chairman said on Sunday.

Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar said on Sunday that security services will not permit a repeat of previous attempts at sabotage and social unrest in Egypt, as authorities brace themselves for protests planned for November 11.

Egyptian Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi met with Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García who paid Egypt a two day visit, during which he was seeking bilateral cooperation, Youm7 reported on Monday.

Egypt's Supply Ministry has raised its provision of sugar from 4,000 tonnes to 9,000 tonnes per day to secure the essential commodity, the Ministry announced on Sunday.

An Egyptian foreign ministry official criticized a recent article published by Britain's Guardian website that attacked Cairo's stance on Syria.

Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly has said that the new administrative capital project will provide jobs to thousands of Egyptians.

Poland's defense minister said he thinks Egypt has sold two French-made Mistral warships to Russia for the symbolic price of US$1 – a claim Russia on Friday dismissed as "nonsense".

International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr on Sunday signed an agreement with European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice-President Dario Scannapieco to provide Egypt with 13 trains for the second line of the underground metro, Youm7 reported.

A leading US business delegation arrived in Cairo Sunday in an official visit to meet with President Abdel Fatah al Sisi and government officials to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the two countries, the US Embassy in Cairo announced in a statement.

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo condemned on Sunday in the strongest terms the brutal murder of Brigadier Adel Ragaai.

Egyptian MP Mostafa Bakry said on Sunday that a ministerial reshuffle is expected to take place in "the coming few days," Ahram Arabic news website reported.

In the upper-middle class Rehab suburb of New Cairo, Ahmed Disouki, the owner of two local foul and falafel restaurants, complains that besides managing his restaurants, he now has to juggle another part-time job to survive.

Egypt's Minister of Petroleum Tarek El-Molla told MPs Sunday that the country’s deal with the Saudi oil company Aramco is still in effect, insisting that its decision to suspend oil supplies to Egypt in October has no “political dimensions.”

Egypt’s second largest mobile operator, Orange Egypt, recorded a net loss of EGP 40.1 million in the first nine months of 2016, the company said on Sunday.

Egyptwill decrease land area used for rice production in the 2017 season with a decrease of 34.6 percent, according to a decree issued by the Ministry of Irrigation and published in the Official Gazette on Sunday.