Human Rights Watch has hailed a move by Egypt's parliament to stiffen punishments for carrying out female genital mutilation, calling the move "a step toward eliminating the practice" but demanding further reforms.

Egypt's new value-added tax was officially implemented on Friday shortly after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified it, Egypt's finance ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

Ahmed Saadeddin, the secretary-general of Egypt's parliament, unveiled Saturday the details of a one-day celebration aimed at marking the 150th anniversary of the inception of parliamentary life in Egypt.

An Egyptian administrative court ruled on Saturday that non-governmental organisations have the right to foreign funding to aid development work in the country.

A security source in North Sinai said that four militants were killed and 12 terrorist hubs were destroyed amid security operation over the past few hours, according to Youm7.

A group called “Hasm Movement” claimed responsibility for the killing of a low-ranking police officer in Cairo’s southern city of 6 October on Thursday, Youm7 reported.

A Tunisian delegation to Egypt said that the country’s security and safe status enhances more cooperation between both countries, Youm7 reported.

A total of 11,000 tons of agricultural leftovers have been collected from different sites in Mansoura city, Dakahlia in a bid by the government to confront the “black clouds,” announced the Ministry of Environment.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg "strongly condemned" on Friday North Korea's fifth and largest nuclear test, telling Pyongyang it must drop all nuclear and ballistic missile activities.

Egyptian investigators have fit together some of the fragments of a Russian passenger jet that crashed over Sinai last October and identified the area where the plane's disintegration most likely began, the commission probing the crash said Thursday.

Egyptair has allocated 24,000 seats aboard 251 additional and regular flights to Egyptians planning to spend the Eid al Adha holiday in the Red Sea resort cities of Sharm al Sheikh and Hurghada, Chairman of Egypt’s national carrier Safwat Musallam was quoted by Youm7 on Thursday.

Defense Minister Sadqy Sobhy ordered the armed forces public services department to distribute 1.5 million free food rations to the neediest citizens in several governorates nationwide on the occasion of Eid al Adha, Youm7 reported on Thursday.

Defense Minister Sadqy Sobhy ordered the armed forces public services department to distribute 1.5 million free food rations to the neediest citizens in several governorates nationwide on the occasion of Eid al Adha, Youm7 reported on Thursday.

Egypt's prosecutor general Nabil Sadek ordered the detention of Al-Ayyat train driver for four days pending investigations over accusations of murder and attempted murder of 35 people in Giza's Al Ayyat deadly train crash that killed 5 people.

An Egyptian administrative court ruled on Thursday that the interior ministry must strip Egyptian citizenship from Egyptians who have married Israelis, in order to protect the country's national security.

Egypt's cabinet approved NGO draft law on Thursday in its weekly meeting referring it to the State Council for legal review, before later submitting a final version to the Parliament for a vote.

Egypt's core inflation rate increased to 13.23 percent year on year in August 2016 up from 12.31 in July 2016, the central bank announced on Thursday.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ratified the long-delayed introduction of the value-added tax (VAT), meaning that the Ministry of Finance will issue its bylaws within 30 days to put the law into action.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with the UAE's Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in Cairo on Thursday, where he stressed the importance of the Arab Gulf's security to Egypt, the Egyptian presidency announced.

Egypt is in advanced talks with Saudi Arabia to secure a deposit of between $2-3 billion as part of the bilateral financing required to seal an International Monetary Fund loan package, the finance minister said in remarks carried by Al-Borsa newspaper on Thursday.

Egypt's top prosecutor Nabil Sadek travelled to Rome on Thursday to hold talks with his Italian counterpart Giuseppe Pignatone, reported MENA agency, in the latest round of meetings between investigators from the two countries probing the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni.