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The Parliament on Wednesday approved in principle a draft bill presented by the government to combat illegal immigration, Youm7 reported.

The Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA) on Tuesday said it supports Saudi Arabia in rejecting the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) recently passed by the US Congress,which allows the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for damages.

Egypt will welcome on Thursday its second Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock – named after the late president Anwar El-Sadat -- coinciding with the country's celebrations of the 43rd anniversary of 1973 war against Israel, state owned MENA agency reported.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation decided on Wednesday to temporarily suspend a three-year jail sentence handed to Mubarak-era housing minister Ibrahim Suleiman over squandering public funds, pending final verdict in December

A Qalioubiya criminal court acquitted on Wednesday Farouk Lashin, the former head of Qalioubiya state security, and two of his aides, of killing protesters during the 2011 uprising.

Egyptian security forces on Tuesday carried out a prosecutor's order to transfer 10 rare-species animals from a private ranch in rural Giza to Giza Zoo, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir signed a comprehensive partnership agreement on Wednesday in Cairo during bilateral high committee meetings, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

The decision by an Egyptian court to overturn a previous court ruling that blocked the handing over of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia has no legal standing, a constitutional law professor told Ahram Online, adding that only the country's top administrative judicial authority can decide on the matter.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) kept the local currency’s rate stable at EGP 8.78 against the US dollar at Tuesday’s regular forex auction, the bank’s official website showed.

Beltone Financial, Egypt's largest asset manager, said on Tuesday it had acquired 60 percent of New York-based brokerage firm Auerbach Grayson & Company.

The Egyptian Petroleum Ministry announced it has signed 15 oil and gas search agreements worth $14.3 billion with foreign companies during the fiscal year 2015-2016, Youm7 reported on Tuesday.

The International Monetary Fund has raised its forecast for Egypt’s economic growth in 2016 to 3.8 percent, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

The Egyptian and Russian parliaments said Tuesday that they must take a unified stand against the forceful changing of Middle East regimes by foreign powers.

Egypt’s administrative prosecution referred officials from the state-owned Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) to disciplinary court on Tuesday for negligence and malpractice over the airing of an old interview with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi by mistake.

Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday called for an "urgent ceasefire" in Syria's battered northern city of Aleppo to allow the flow of humanitarian aid to residents.

Egypt's House of Representatives passed on Tuesday a controversial civil service law which it had approved in July but was referred to State Council for revision.

The speaker of Egypt’s parliament Ali Abdel-Al referred on Tuesday maverick ‎independent MP Ilhami Agina to ‎the ethics committee for investigation after Agina said that any woman who wishes to join ‎university must first undergo a virginity test.

A Cairo criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence on Tuesday to two people for "joining a militant organization" in a trial known in the media as "The returnees from Libya."

Egypt signed a framework agreement with China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) to develop the second and third phase of construction in the new administrative capital east of Cairo with an investment of $20 billion, the cabinet stated on Monday.

The Egyptian government is planning to increase subsidies on household goods to prevent soaring prices resulting from an imminent currency devaluation, government sources told Al-Masry al-Youm on Monday.