Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday that the country's currency, the pound, was not valued fairly against the dollar but that the exchange rate would reach equilibrium after a few months.

Adel Tolba, head of the Egyptian Trading Pharmaceutical Company, instructed by the government to import the shortage medicines which are unavailable on the market, said that the first shipment of the medicines arrived early on Wednesday and the rest will arrive on Tuesday.

Egyptian central bank governor Tarek Amer has said nothing would prompt him to intervene to prop up the pound after floating the currency in a dramatic move last month, calling those policies "history". Egypt abandoned its peg of 8.8 Egyptian pounds to the U.S. dollar on Nov. 3, floating the currency in a bold move that has since seen it roughly halve in value.

Egypt supports the Syrian people and has been consulting with the Syrian national opposition, said Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry on Tuesday. He added that Egypt is in close cooperation with the Syrian rebels. In an interview with CNN, Shoukry said the Syrian regime led by President Bashar Al-Assad may potentially seize Aleppo; he added, however: “The Syrian opposition and the Syrian people deserve the opportunity to take matters into their own hands in a peaceful political process.”

The chairman of the presidential committee formed to examine the cases of young Egyptian detainees, Osama al-Ghazaly Harb, said Tuesday that the committee will release within 4 days a new list that includes the names of 300-400 detainees to be pardoned by presidential decree.

Egypt's cabinet referred on Tuesday an amendment of the protest law's Article 10, which permits the country’s interior minister to unilaterally bar scheduled protests, to the state council for legal review after the High Constitutional Court deemed it unconstitutional.

Several local media outlets in Egypt have echoed their outrage over the decision to raise newspaper printing prices by 80% due to the recent devaluation of the Egyptian pound, issued last week by the state-run Al-Ahram printing service.

Egypt was in favour of continuing consultations on a draft resolution for a ceasefire in Syria’s Aleppo to ensure consent from all members of the UN Security Council, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

“One night my father beat me up, dragged me [across the floor] with people watching and no one did anything,” said Samia.

Minister of Finance Amr El-Garhy and Minister of Trade and Industry Tareq Kabil said on Sunday that the recent decision to raise tariffs on a number of luxury goods aims to support local industry and reduce imports.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail confirmed on Saturday that a government committee will amend the Protest Law, after the Constitutional Court ruled that various articles of the law were contrary to the Constitution, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported.

A presidential committee formed to examine cases of young Egyptians detained since the events that followed January 25 revolution is near conclusion. A new list of pardoned youth is to be announced, informed sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm.

The Egyptian presidency has denied any modifications to the date or the programme of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s latest visit to the UAE, Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday, despite media reports that El-Sisi would meet with Saudi's King Salman while in the Gulf country.

Each year, Egypt commemorates World AIDS Day on 1 December through a nationwide advocacy campaign aimed at raising awareness about HIV/AIDS.

The head of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies Amr al-Shobky expressed astonishment Wednesday that the final court ruling he recently obtained was not being implemented. The ruling entitles him to the parliament's membership, replacing Ahmed Mortada Mansour, son of Zamalek Club Chief and lawyer Mortada Mansour. Shobky told Al-Watan newpaper he is "not sure who backs Mortada Manour" against the law.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi arrived on Thursday in the United Arab Emirates of Abu Dhabi on a two-day visit to attend the UAE 's celebrations of its 45th national day.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail met with 13 representatives from the Nubian protesters on Wednesday evening, in which both sides agreed to suspend the protests or any intended escalation for one month from the meeting date to give the government a chance to fulfill the Nubians’ demands, according to state-run Al-Ahram. During the meeting, the Nubians discussed their demands and the reasons that encouraged them to form “The Nubian Return Caravan”, as well as gave an account of how security forces harassed their protest, which led to casualties.

Mona Mina, the undersecretary of the Doctors Syndicate and prominent defender of human rights, was summoned for investigations by prosecution authorities in an urgent session scheduled for Saturday, the syndicate reported Wednesday.

The Egyptian parliamentary delegation currently visiting London has severely criticised statements made by MP Crispin Blunt regarding the Muslim Brotherhood, said member of the parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Tarek Al-Khouly. Blunt, who is head of UK parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said that half of the Egyptian population still supports the Brotherhood, and that they should have stayed in power as the democratically-elected authority.

The number of tourists visiting Egypt increased by 7 percent in October 2016 compared to September 2016, the state's official statistics body CAPMAS announced on Wednesday In an email press statement, CAPMAS highlighted that Western Europe sent the highest number of visitors to Egypt at 36 percent of all visitors to the country in October. Germany contributed 38.8 percent of all western European tourists to Egypt in that month.

The Egyptian government is planning a second phase of economic reforms to be discussed by the cabinet before being presented to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous sources.