Investigators from Egypt's National Security Agency are stepping up efforts to identify the administrators of a Facebook page called “We are all Saleh Selim” that has been accused of slandering Al-Ahly Sporting Club, while harshly criticising the police, the military and the judiciary.

Three Suez Canal workers were injured on Sunday night when two launches for the canal's authority capsized in the waterway. The workers have been transferred to hospital for treatment.

Egypt's House of Representatives gave its initial approval for a bill to introduce Value-Added Tax (VAT) during preliminary discussions in parliament on Sunday, with a number of sources claiming the a rate of 13 percent was agreed on.

Reaching a just, comprehensive settlement on the Palestinian issue "would create a new reality in the region and contribute to curbing turbulence and instability in Middle East," Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Sunday during talks with officials from the White House's National Security Council in Cairo. according to his office.

Representatives from Saudi Telecom and Lebara KSA are in Egypt this week to discuss the possibility of obtaining a fourth-generation mobile phone licence, an official from Egypt's telecommunications ministry said on Monday.

U.S. wheat fell for a sixth consecutive session and hovered near a three-week low on Monday, as ample global stocks and a regulatory clamp-down from the world's largest buyer of the grain dragged on prices.

Microbus drivers have started a strike in the Cairo suburb of Maadi after a driver was killed by a lower-ranking policeman in the late hours of Sunday.

More than 50 private schools have received warning from Education Minister al-Helaly al-Sherbiny over violations, he told reporters Sunday. A total of 27 international schools in Egypt were previously warned by the Education Ministry against charging extra fees, violating their own internal statutes, accepting extra students and not applying for work permits for foreign staff.

Egypt's administrative prosecution has referred television presenter Azza al-Hennawy to a disciplinary court for insulting the president and expressing personal viewpoints on her talk show, aired on a state-owned channel called Al-Qahira (Cairo).

Egypt's debts to foreign oil companies reached $3.4 billion by the end of June, a Sunday petroleum ministry statement read.

A Russian delegation of experts is expected to arrive in Cairo this week to inspect security measures at Egyptian airports amid expectation of a resumption of Russian commercial flights to Egypt in October.

Egypt’s parliament approved on Sunday the long-delayed value added tax (VAT) at a rate of 13 percent for the 2016/17 fiscal year, but said it will rise to 14 percent the following year.

A fact-finding parliamentary committee concluded in ‎a 78-page report on Sunday that outgoing supply minister‎ Khaled Hanafi and officials in the ‎ministries of agriculture, industry, and foreign trade ‎should be referred to prosecution for alleged rampant corruption and graft in the ‎wheat supply sector.

Egypt’s cabinet approved on Sunday a draft bill designating the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) a felony, raising prison terms for those convicted of performing the procedure, health minister Ahmed Emad announced.

A gas cylinder exploded on Saturday inside a building in the western Alexandrian neighborhood of El-Max, causing the collapse of three buildings and the injury of one person.

ُEgypt has decided to halt wheat imports if shipments contains any percentage of the ergot fungus, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday.

The UN's head of mission in Libya, Martin Kobler, said that Egypt has full rights to defend its border with Libya against terrorism, in an interview on Egyptian television on Saturday.

At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured in two different traffic accidents that took place Sunday morning, according to Youm7.

The Ministry of Solidarity announced adding a total of 172,000 families from Upper Egypt’s Qena to a governmental health care program, Youm7 reported.

An anonymous judicial source said that monitory bodies were assigned to inquire about the fortune of the resigned Supply Minister Khaled Hanafy, who left his position amid investigations into subsidized wheat corruption case.

Sallum border guards thwarted an attempt by 16 unregistered migrants to illegally cross into Libya territories, Youm7 reported.