A Cairo misdemeanor court rejected on Saturday writer Ahmed Naji's appeal against a two-year prison sentence for publishing a “sexually explicit article” in a literary state newspaper.

Egypt's social solidarity ministry shut down an orphanage in Cairo's Nasr City over reports of abuse against a number of girls, state news agency MENA reported.

Eni has agreed to sell a 10 percent stake in Zohr’s Shorouk gas field concession to British Petroleum for $375 million, the Italian company said in a Friday statement.

Egypt and Jordan concluded on Friday joint military drills which began early this month in southern Jordan, state owned MENA agency reported.

The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) indexes showed mixed performance at the close of trading on Thursday amid selling operations by institutions and foreign investment funds and purchase operations by Arab and Egyptian investors, Youm7 reported.

Egyptian Free Zones provide 185,000 jobs and represent a separate project owned by the investor, said Chairman of Free Zones Sector at the General Authority for Investment Hossam Hadad on Thursday.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has condemned with the strongest words the terrorist bombing that rocked the Iraqi city of Hilla, which left scores of people dead and injured.

The government embarked on revising a database for holders of subsidized food commodities ration cards, Youm7 said, citing a statement of Prime Minister Sherif Ismaiel on Thursday.

A group of gunmen killed eight army personnel in an attack on a military checkpoint in the restive northern Sinai region, where forces are battling a militant insurgency, a military spokesman has said.

Six people were killed and at least 25 wounded in a multi-vehicle road crash north of Cairo on Thursday, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Minister of Defence Sedqi Sobhi attended on Thursday a major live-ammunition naval war games on the country's western borders, Ahram Rabic news website reported.

The Egyptian cabinet appointed Ashraf Sultan on Thursday as a new spokesman, succeeding Hossam El-Kaweish.

Egypt government is to embark on a new project to divert high-voltage power lines from dozens of vulnerable working-class neighbourhoods across the country.

Sharm el Sheikh city has received a delegation from the Brazilian Television, that will shoot an episode on Egyptian archeological sites to be telecasted on Multishow channel in Brazil, Youm7 reported.

French companies’ investments in Egypt have reached $4 billion, said French Ambassador in Cairo Andre Parant during a Wednesday press conference.

President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi met with the Emir of the State of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, on the sidelines of the fourth Africa-Arab Summit in Malabo on Wednesday, said Egyptian Presidential Spokesperson Alaa Youssef in a statement.

Egyptian authorities at the Cairo International Airport banned Journalist Amr El-Leithy from travel to Dubai on Thursday, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's tourism minister Yahia Rashed hailed the US Department of State’s recent decision to classify Egypt as a safe country for travel, describing it as a positive sign for Egypt’s tourism sector.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi delivered a speech before the opening session of the fourth Arab-African Summit, which kicked-off in Equatorial Guinea's capital Malabo on Wednesday, where he said that countries need to combine efforts to face several international crises.

Egypt has complied with all recommendations by Russian experts on strengthening security at its airports, Russian Deputy Transport Minister Valery Okulov said Wednesday.

Egypt’s press syndicate decided on Wednesday to form three committees “to follow up on” the consequences of the recent prison sentence against the syndicate head as well as outstanding issues facing journalists, mainly the “new media law and the impact of the recent economic decisions on journalistic institutions.”