Security forces arrested the owner of the boat that drowned off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast last week with over 600 illegal migrants on board, Youm7 reported on Tuesday.

Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy and Russia’s Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov will hold a press conference on Tuesday to announce the outcome of talks on resuming direct flights between the two countries, Youm7 reported.

Russia has agreed to lift a temporary ban on imports of Egyptian crops after Cairo committed to take all necessary measures to guarantee the safety of the products exported to Moscow, Sergei Dankvert, Head of Russian food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor was quoted by Sputnik on Monday.

The government must raise the people’s awareness of the population crisis, as the Egyptian people do not accept “limiting,” as opposed to “regulating” birth, for religious reasons, Member of Parliament Ahmed Argawy told Youm7 Monday.

A huge ship that belongs to a petroleum company has arrived at the site of the capsized migration boat to help in recovering the rest of the dead bodies, Youm7 reported.

A total of eight illegal immigration agents have been arrested in Rasheed and Edko, in coastal governorate of Beheira, Youm7 reported Monday.

A Cairo criminal court sentenced in absentia three defendants to 10 years in prison after they were convicted of disrupting one of Cairo's metro lines.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi addressed young Egyptians seeking to migrate in the light of the boat disaster last week which killed at least 170 migrants while en route to Italy.

Nasser Abdel Aal, the former minister of tourism’s consultant on Asia, has said that Egypt's tourism sector is aiming to achieve a target of 1 million Chinese tourists per year within the next five years.

A bill on illegal immigration was referred to Egypt's Parliament in June and is still awaiting consideration by MPs, having already been reviewed by the Cabinet and the State Council, according to Magdy al-Agaty, the minister of state for legal and parliamentary affairs.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged Egyptians not to leave their country, during a speech on Monday, a few days after a boat capsized off Egypt's Mediterranean coast killing more than 160 migrants.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said the European Union needed to establish migrant deals with Egypt and Tunisia along the lines of the agreement it already has with Turkey.

Russia’s transport minister Maksim Sokolov is expected to arrive in Egypt on Tuesday for talks with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on the resumption of flights between the two countries, according to Russian news agency TASS.

"The population growth rate in Egypt is a dangerous virus that we must get rid of, just like virus-C," said Major General Abu Bakr al-Gendy, Chairman of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).

Egypt's spending on petroleum subsidies dropped by 28.7 percent in the 2015-16 financial year to compared to one year earlier, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said on Sunday, a greater decline than previously announced.

The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced on Monday that the number of foreign tourists visiting Egypt fell during the first half of 2016 to 2.3 million, compared to 4.8 million tourists during the same period of 2015.

Collective absence at two schools in Sohag governorate, Upper Egypt, Monday resulted from clashes between two families in the governorate; el-Shawafei and el-Alalsa, Youm7 reported.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi announced Monday that the Health Ministry no longer has waiting lists of Hepatitis C patients during his speech at the inauguration of a housing project that developed a slum into a planned area in Alexandria.

The governor of Egypt's Central Bank, Tarek Amer, arrived in Germany on Monday for a three-day visit to discuss the country's support for the deal between Egypt and the International Monetary Fund, state news agency MENA reported.

Minister of Higher Education Ashraf el-Sheehy met Monday with Deputy Chinese Minister of Education, where they discussed the establishment of a Chinese university in the new administrative capital.