A total of 118 donkies were found dead after unknown people ripped their skin from their bodies and dumped them in a conduit in Delta’s Kafr el-Sheikh governorate, Youm7 reported.

Sir Magdi Yacoub, the British-Egyptian cardiothoracic surgeon, annoucned that he will be responsible for the treatment of a rare case of a child born with his heart outside his chest, in TV statements Sunday.

A Cairo prosecutor ordered on Monday the detention of six people for 15 days pending investigations into charges of inciting illegal protests on 11 November, Ahram Arabic website reported.

Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry discussed Egyptian-US ties with a visiting US congressional delegation in Cairo on Monday, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said.

Alaa Abed, a leading figure of the Free Egyptians Party, was elected head of the Human Rights Committee. As many as seven MPs who competed for the post decided to withdraw from the race. One of these, businessman and head of the Conservatives Party Akmal Qortam, accused the Free Egyptians Party of compelling its MPs to join the human rights committee to have adequate voting power to elect Abed. Qortam described the vote as "undemocratic" and as a result he said he had decided to resign from parliament.

The head of Syria's National Security Bureau Ali Al-Mamlouk met during a Cairo visit with Egypt's head of intelligence Khaled Fawzy, Syria's state-owned news agency SANA reported on Monday.

Upon the request of a large number of MPs, the speaker of Egypt's parliament, Ali Abdel-Al has announced that he is seriously studying a proposal aimed at holding a joint meeting with leading members of Saudi Arabia's Shura Council.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will meet with a congress delegation chaired by Senator Michael Conaway at Cairo-based Egyptian Foreign Ministry headquarters on Monday, according to a statement from the ministry Sunday.

A Cairo court sentenced 18 defendants on Sunday to two years in prison for insulting the judiciary, after the defendants cheered inside the cage when one of them threw his shoe at the judge, security sources and a lawyer said.

Egypt’s House of Representatives has passed the Migration Law on Monday after a total of 402 parliamentarians voted for it, Youm7 reported.

Egypt expresses its solidarity with the Iraqi government and people in light of the launch of coordinated military operations to retake Mosul from the Islamic State militant group on Monday, foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid said on Monday.

An Egyptian delegation is set to participate in the 3rd United Nations conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, more commonly known as Habitat III, scheduled to kick off in Quito, Ecuador, 17-20 Oct. 2016, Youm7 reported.

Egypt and Russia commenced the “Guardians of Friendship 2016″ joint military exercise on Sunday, which involves airborne forces from both countries, Egyptian military spokesman Mohamed Samir announced in a statement.

Eight new Rafale fighter jets are joining the Egyptian Air Force next year, the Egyptian state-owned newspaper al-Akhbar reported on Friday.

Egyptian media is reporting that a high-level Syrian delegation has arrived in Cairo for talks with unnamed senior officials.

Egypt's army said three of its personnel were killed and two wounded during air and ground operations against militants in the restive North Sinai region on Sunday.

Egypt's army has launched a major campaign to target “terrorist elements” in several areas in North and Central Sinai, the army's spokesman announced on Sunday.

A record 64 MPs have decided to ‎join the Egyptian parliament's Human Rights ‎Committee, which parliament's ‎deputy speaker Mahmoud El-Sherif says clearly reflects an ‎increasing interest on the part of MPs ‎in human rights issues.

The sale of the 4G licences to Egypt's mobile operators has generated around $1.1 billion in addition to EGP 10 billion ($1.1 billion) for the state’s public treasury, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser Al-Kady said on Sunday.

A Cairo prosecutor ordered on Sunday the release of a man on EGP 1,000 bail after he was arrested for possessing an amount of sugar that was over the allowed limit for individuals to hold due to an ongoing sugar shortage.

Egypt has moved up to fifth place globally in the increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, according to a ranking provided by the Financial Times.