The United Nations office in Egypt congratulates the Egyptian government, health ministry and the National Population Council for their admirable efforts, which led to the endorsement by parliament majority of harsher penalties for Female Genital Mutilation.

A 53 year-old Egyptian woman died on Thursday while performing Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia, health ministry announced in a statement.

The Interior Ministry has issued a statement on the recent death of a medical student at a brothel in Nasr City, saying that he died after jumping from a balcony to escape capture in a police raid.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi held talks with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday, discussing bilateral relations including economic and development issues, MENA news agency reported.

Subsidised infant milk will only be available in 1,005 outlets throughout the country, Egypt's health minister said on Thursday after dozens protested the shortage outside Egyptian Pharmaceutical Trading Company in Cairo.

Eight years after the first woman in Egypt won a conviction against a man for sexual harassment, activists and lawyers see progress in transforming attitudes and more harassers being jailed.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday in New Delhi to discuss bilateral cooperation, state news agency MENA reported.

Dozens of demonstrators took to the Nile Corniche in Cairo's Shubra on Thursday, blocking off the street in protest at the lack of subsidised baby formula.

Egypt will re-open the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip in both directions on Saturday and Sunday for the upcoming Eid El-Adha holiday, after opening them for three days earlier this week, state news agency MENA reported on Thursday.

Things are "progressing well" in terms of the discussions about the $12 billion International Monetary Fund loan programme for Egypt, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said at a press briefing in Washington on Thursday, adding that the IMF board meeting to approve the deal will take place in the coming weeks.

A Russian Investigative Committee delegation paid a working visit to Egypt to sign a memorandum of understanding to jointly investigate the Russia-operated Airbus A321 plane crash over the Sinai, the committee’s spokesman said Thursday.

Egypt has halted hot air balloon rides over the tourist city of Luxor for three days due to poor weather conditions, days after tens of tourists were wounded in a balloon crash landing.

The Ministry of Tourism denied, on Wednesday evening, rumors about the death of four children at a hotel in the north coastal resort of Marina.

Public Prosecutor Ahmed Sadeq has ordered the release of Ibrahim Hatab, a wheat silo owner charged in connection with corruption in the local wheat procurement system. A bail of LE500,000 was set for Hatab's release.

795 Palestinian pilgrims have crossed Rafah border to travel to Mecca through Cairo Airport, Youm7 reported.

The prosecutor in Mina al-Basal, Alexandria, has ordered an investigation into the death of a prisoner at a police station in Alexandria on Thursday morning.

Egypt's constitutional court is to start reviewing on October 1 a controversial law that bans unauthorised protests, officials said on Tuesday.

Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany and Sakuji Yoshimura, director of the Japanese restoration team, were witness Wednesday to the lifting of a newly-discovered wooden beam of Khufu's second solar boat from its pit located to the north of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Egypt has called on the European Union to step up efforts to combat illegal immigration, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Royal Dutch Shell announced on Wednesday new natural gas discoveries in a concession area of north Alam El-Shawish in Egypt’s western desert.

President Abdel Fatah al Sisi met with visiting Jordanian Prime Minister Hany al Mulqa on Wednesday and discussed ways to boost bilateral cooperation between both countries in various fields, Youm7 reported.