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.

The Egyptian pound fell against the US dollar at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) and other Egyptian banks on Tuesday. The banks confirmed that the dollar pricing mechanism is subject only to the principle of supply and demand. They added that the highs and lows in the value of the pound are natural after the liberalisation of the exchange rate.

25 committees for resolving tax disputes will begin their work in the current week according to a decree issued by Minister of Finance Amr El-Garhy to implement tax dispute resolution law 79/2016. El-Garhy said that governorates have already begun to receive financiers’ requests since two weeks ago and the competent committees will begin immediately in studying these requests and take legal procedures to end disputes.

Russian Trade Representative in Cairo Fedor Lukashin said on Sunday evening that the signing ceremony of the Dabaa nuclear power plant contract is expected before the end of the year.

Switzerland will decide in February whether to extend or lift a freeze on deposed Egyptian president Hosni’s Mubarak’s assets in Swiss banks, SwissInfo website reported.

Switzerland will decide in February whether to extend or lift a freeze on deposed Egyptian president Hosni’s Mubarak’s assets in Swiss banks, SwissInfo website reported.

The Front to Defend Freedoms, an Egyptian coalition consisting of a number of political parties and rights organisations, released a statement on the third anniversary of the so-called “Shura protests” calling for the release of people detained in that case as well as a stop to “policies of oppression.”

Egypt's Court of Cassation accepted Sunday the appeal of eight defendants against a previous court order designating them as members of a terrorist organisation in the trial known in the media as "Helwan Brigades."

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated the 20th round of Cairo’s ICT conference and exhibition on Sunday, announcing the launch of two technological sites in the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut and Alexandria's Borg El-Arab.

Leading members of the Egyptian parliament's Social Solidarity Committee said on Sunday that they reject most of the amendments introduced by the government to the new NGO law.