Mokhtar and his two roommates have been detained since 14 January on charges of calling for protest and 'overthrowing the regime'

CAIRO, Jun 18 (Aswat Masriya) - The Cairo criminal court sentenced on Saturday six defendants in the Qatar espionage case to death and handed former president Mohamed Mursi 40 years in prison.

The second black box from a crashed EgyptAir plane has reportedly been found in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Egyptian Antiquities Authority announced yesterday its recovery of two ancient artefacts dating back to the time of the pharaohs that had been seized by Israel

The suspension will continue until the ministry can create new regulations to govern international schools in Egypt

CAIRO, June 16 (UPI) -- Although searchers have located one of the "black boxes" from EgyptAir Flight MS804, it might not provide the answers investigators hope it will.

Egypt’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that the future of the maritime border demarcation agreement signed with Saudi Arabia is dependent on the parliament's decision after its review.

Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on Jun. 17, 2016

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Syrian Cairo opposition group will hold a technical meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria representatives on June 18-19, head of the group Jihad Makdissi told Sputnik on Thursday.

HRH Premier thanked by Egyptian President

This is the second gag order to be issued on the case after the prosecution imposed a similar order last year, before the case was referred to court

The interior ministry says gunmen attacked the house of the policemen and shot them dead

Roundup of headlines in Egypt's main state-owned and private newspapers on Jun. 16, 2016:

Egypt's top prosecutor Nabil Sadek flew Wednesday to Cyprus to discuss the extradition of an Egyptian man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and redirected it to the Mediterranean island last March.

A SHIP searching for the wreckage of the missing EgyptAir jet has identified several main locations of the wreckage in the Mediterranean Sea

Tax authorities begin tax evasion and money laundering probe but refuse to say how many people are under investigation

2 tombs to be open for visitors in 15 days at Giza East Field

Russia is proud of the level of its relations with Egypt, in particular the personal relationship between President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Russian ambassador said on Sunday.

Iran has finalized a historic deal with Boeing to buy passenger planes from the U.S. aircraft manufacturer as part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the country's civilian air fleet, Iranian media reported Tuesday.

Egypt's president AbdelFattah al-Sisi said that "stability and security" are the main "achievements" that the country has seen over the past two years, at an iftar dinner on Saturday

Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on Jun. 15, 2016