The State Council's purchasing manager, Gamal al-Labban, and two other suspects were detained on Thursday for 15 days pending investigation into huge bribery charges, by order of an Al-Salam Misdemeanors Court judge, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fatah El-Sisi has stressed the importance of fighting corruption in the country, saying that he himself is ready to be held accountable in case of wrongdoing. "We do not want to take a lot of time in fighting these diseases [corruption]. We should do this quickly; we have a lot of work to do," he said during the inauguration of a fish farm in the Egyptian city of Ismailia.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fatah El-Sisi has stressed the importance of fighting corruption in the country, saying that he himself is ready to be held accountable in case of wrongdoing.

Governmental sources have revealed a promise by the government not to raise prices of medicines of chronic diseases, indicating instead their intention to raise the prices of other mecidines in accordance with Health Minister Ahmed Emad Eddine's proposal.

Egypt's supreme state security prosecution on Wednesday ordered senior official at State Council and two others detained for four days pending investigations over corruption charges.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said on Monday that Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi proved to be a good friend to the United States (US) after he pulled Egypt’s draft resolution condemning the illegality of Israeli settlements within Palestinian lands based on a request from the US.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Tuesday that flights between Russia and Egypt will resume most likely in January.

Egypt's currency black market has been almost eliminated since the flotation of the Egyptian pound in November, Tarek Amer, the head of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), said in a TV interview broadcast on Monday.

Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Tarek Amer cancelled a meeting scheduled on Tuesday with representatives of nine investor associations, an investor involved in the meeting told Daily News Egypt on condition of anonymity. The meeting was set to discuss banks calling on companies to pay for the exchange rate gap from letters of credit issued to cover imports.

A Russian team of airport security experts is set to arrive in Cairo on Monday evening to inspect the latest security measures adopted at Cairo International Airport ahead of the expected resumption of Russian flights to Egypt, a source at the civil aviation ministry told Ahram Arabic website.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi highlighted on Monday the strong ties between Egypt and Djibouti, saying that his talks with counterpart Ismail Omar Guelleh on boosting bilateral ties were fruitful.

Egypt has agreed to postpone a UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements in order to give the US a chance to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the office of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said in a statement on Friday.

The U.N. Security Council will vote on Friday on a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements after four council members again put forward the measure a day after Egypt withdrew it.

Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji was released on Thursday from prison after a Cairo court of cassation suspended on Sunday his two-year prison sentence pending a final verdict on 1 January 2017.

Egypt will operate four direct flights a week from Germany to the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh as of Friday in an attempt to return the number of foreign tourists to previous levels, the Egyptian tourism ministry announced on Thursday.

Egypt postponed a UN Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel's prime minister and U.S. president-elect Donald Trump urged Washington to veto it.

Egypt's Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said on Thursday his country was seeking to reach an agreement with Iraq over importing crude oil directly and that he hoped to finalise the deal by the first quarter of 2017.

The Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister, Ambassador Ibrahim Yusri, has filed two lawsuits before the State Council to annul agreements which he said are in violation of the Egyptian constitution and harm the country’s interests.

The World Bank's board of executive directors approved on Tuesday a second US$1 billion disbursement from a US$3 billion loan to Egypt to support its economic reform programme.

During excavation work carried out below the visitors’ pathway in the northern part of the west Aswan cemetery, at Qubbet Al-Hawa site, archaeologists from the University of Birmingham and the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) Qubbet Al-Hawa Research Project (QHRP), stumbled upon what is believed to be an ancient Egyptian encroachment wall.

Egypt's Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has said a "sovereign body" will be in charge of printing the Thanaweya Amaa exams—Egypt's standardised high school final exams—to prevent the test being leaked prior to test day.