Egypt signed an agreement worth $1.5 billion with the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) to finance development in Sinai on Sunday, Egypt's ministry of international cooperation said.

The name and photo of former vice president Mohamed ElBaradei has been removed from a list of Egyptian Nobel laureates in fifth-grade textbooks, independent newspaper Al-Tahrir has revealed.

Soliman Wahdan, deputy speaker of Egypt's ‎parliament, told reporters Sunday that he will be at ‎the helm of a parliamentary delegation that will ‎visit North Sinai "soon".

Egypt's central bank will from now on hold one foreign currency auction per week on Tuesdays, when it will sell US$120 million, bankers told Reuters on Sunday.

French Construction Company Vinci has won an international tender to establish the third phase of third line of Cairo metro, said Minister of Transport Saad al-Geuishi told Youm7 Sunday.

Dozens of government employees gathered in front of the press syndicate on Sunday in objection to an attempt to repass the civil service bill, amid tight security.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is to meet with the Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir on Sunday. According to a statement released by the Foreign Ministry, Shoukry is to deliver a message from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to Al-Bashir regarding bilateral relations between both countries and the unification of their positions on several issues.

Egypt's Central Bank raised interest rates by 1.5 percentage points in its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on Thursday.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi witnessed Thursday military naval exercises called “Maneuvers of Masts” in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

The Egypt-led committee investigating the crash of a Russian passenger airplane in the Sinai peninsula last October said on Thursday it was referring the case to Egypt's attorney general, the first indication it suspects foul play.

Egypt said on Wednesday it will regulate ride-hailing services Uber and Careem after they sparked protests from taxi drivers in Cairo over allegations the smartphone applications bypass traffic regulations.

Egypt has unearthed further evidence that a secret chamber, believed by some to be the lost burial site of Queen Nefertiti, may lie behind King Tutankhamun's tomb, Egypt's antiquities minister said on Thursday.

Egypt's third largest real estate developer SODIC saw its share price rise significantly by 8.51 percent to be traded at EGP 9.43 in midday trading on Wednesday after releasing its consolidated financial results for last year.

Egyptian women witnessed a slight improvement in political rights through 2015, although their socio-economic circumstances have declined and acts of violence against women have continued, according to a report by the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday at talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that they had agreed to make efforts on resuming direct flights between Russia and Egypt in the shortest possible period of time.

The Egyptian team in charge of investigating the murder of an Italian researcher in Cairo will head to Rome in the upcoming days to foster mutual coordination on the case, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in an interview published on Wednesday.

The prosecutor-general’s office received a report from lawyer Amr Abdel Salam demanding an arrest order be issued for former justice minister Ahmed Al-Zind as well as a travel ban.

Egypt's Central Bank will offer on Wednesday to sell $1.5 billion in an exceptional auction to banks to "cover the outstanding foreign currency debts that resulted from importing operations," the bank stated on its website on Tuesday.

Within the next two weeks, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia will sign agreements concerning Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam. Based on technical studies to be carried out, the anticipated agreements come in response to Cairo's fears over the controversial dam. Egypt’s irrigation minister, Hossam Moghazi, has warned of potentially detrimental impact on Egypt's water supply.

Price of gold in Egypt fell by 0.3 EGP ($0.033) per gram Tuesday in the wake of the Central Bank of Egypt’s (CBE) recent decision to devaluate the pound from 7.83 to 8.95 against the U.S. dollar, Rafik Abbasy, said chairman of the gold division at the Federation of Chambers of Commerce.

The recent decision to exempt Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zend from office sparked debate on whether the move was constitutional or if it bypassed parliament's functions stipulated in the constitution.