China's yuan joined the International Monetary Fund's basket of reserve currencies in October alongside the US dollar, the euro, the yen and the British pound.

Abu Simbel archaeological area in Aswan received on Monday 620 tourists of different nationalities from European and east Asian countries, despite the bombing of Abbaseya Church in Cairo on Sunday, the director of Abu Simbel archaeological area, Hossam Abboud, told Al-Borsa News on Monday.

The Egyptian government has been given a 30-day deadline to present a new version of the Criminal Procedures Law before the parliament to speed up trial procedures in terrorism cases, the head of Egypt's House of Representatives legislative and constitutional affairs' committee was quoted as saying by state-news agency MENA on Tuesday.

The IS group has claimed responsibilty for the bombing at the St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, last Sunday.

EgyptAir has received its first Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which arrived at Cairo International Airport yesterday. Safwat Mesallam, chairman of EgyptAir Holding Company, said the plan of upgrading the EgyptAir fleet is targeting a total of 105 aircrafts by the end of 2020 and 156 aircrafts by the end of 2025.

The church is called the church of the martyrs because ‎since the beginning of Christianity the Egyptian ‎church has offered its children as martyrs," Pope Tawadros II ‎began the funeral service held on Monday for the victims of the bomb blast at the Coptic cathedral bomb a day earlier.

The bomb attack on Cairo’s cathedral complex on Sunday was carried out by a 22-year-old suicide bomber, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said during an address at a state funeral for the 24 victims of the blast. El-Sisi named the man as Mahmoud Shafiq Mohamed Mostafa.

The pace of violence has returned to escalate again following a decline for a while, with three terrorist attacks, blown by terrorist groups against the Egyptian state. The first attack targeted a security checkpoint in Haram area, Giza, killing 6 policemen on Friday; secondly, an explosion hit a police vehicle in Kafr el-Sheikh governorate, on the same day, killing a citizen and injuring three policemen; and thirdly, a terrorist attack targeting Botroseya Church, in the vicinity of Saint Mark Cathedral on Sunday, killing 25 martyrs and injuring 53 people.

Twenty-three people were killed after an explosion inside a church attached to the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo early Sunday, one of the deadliest attacks on Egyptian Christians in years.

A bombing at Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral killed 25 people and wounded another 35 on Sunday, in one of the deadliest attacks carried out against the religious minority in recent memory.

Twenty-five people died and 49 others were injured in an explosion that rocked Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasiya on Sunday morning. Authorities believe the explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) containing 12kg of TNT, deliberately targeting Sunday worshippers.

Twenty-three people were killed after an explosion inside a church attached to the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo early Sunday, one of the deadliest attacks on Egyptian Christians in years.

The autopsy report for Magdy Makeen proves that his death was the result of torture, said lawyer Mohamed Osman on Wednesday.

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.