Egypt's prosecutor-general, Nabil Sadek, will meet his Italian counterpart, Giuseppe Pignatone, in Rome next week as part of the latest round of meetings between investigators from the two countries who are looking into the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni, Italian agency ANSA reported on Tuesday.

The Egyptian, Ethiopian and Sudanese ministers of Water Resources and Irrigation will meet in Khartoum early next week to sign a contract with the French consulting office conducting technical studies on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Two men in Sharqiya have confessed to killing a man in a violent robbery, cutting his throat to order to steal his motorbike and mobile phone, according to security services.

Canada's Bombardier Inc and Egypt's government discussed Tuesday steps to build a 35km monorail on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt's cabinet spokesman said in a statement -- a project first announced in mid-2015.

State-owned telephone company Telecom Egypt, will be the first mobile operator to buy the fourth-generation (4G) mobile licence in the country, state news agency MENA said on Wednesday.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will fly to India on Friday for a three-day visit, where he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Egypt's envoy to New Delhi told the state news agency MENA on Wednesday.

Cyprus signed a deal on Wednesday for the transfer of natural gas via pipeline to Egypt, once extraction starts of discoveries made off the Mediterranean island.

The total number of permits for working abroad issued by Egypt's Interior Ministry rose by 0.9 percent in 2015 compared with 2014, according to the official statistics agency.

The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland ruled in favor of an Egyptian appeal against a Swiss decision to close the case against former president Hosni Mubarak and some of his regime figures, accused of embezzling public funds.

An Egyptian court began a hearing on Tuesday for a legal challenge against the recent nullification of an agreement between Egypt and Saudi Arabia that placed two Red Sea islands within Saudi waters.

Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court has set 1 October to hear suits filed against the country's controversial protest law, which bans all but police-sanctioned street demonstrations.

Egypt's Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar has called on his aides to search for “unconventional solutions” to the problems of heavy traffic and car accidents in Egypt, the ministry announced in a statement on Tuesday.

Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat, ‎chairman of the Egyptian parliament's human rights committee, resigned on Tuesday shortly after parliament speaker Ali Abdel-Al disclosed ‎that a closed-door meeting would be held to ‎discuss a complaint filed by an MP against parliament with "an ‎international organisation."

Egypt's office of the prosecutor-general has ordered the release on bail of a businessman charged in the high-profile wheat corruption case after he paid back a substantial amount of money he was accused of stealing.

Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in media statements on Tuesday that Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir will meet his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo in October, MENA news agency reported.

A woman filed a lawsuit with the Cairo Family Court on Monday requesting a divorce after her husband beat her in front of their neighbors for borrowing money to pay an electricity bill.

The Cabinet has sent two notifications to the Cairo Metro Company to increase the ticket price, an anonymous official at the company told Youm7 Monday evening.

Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohmef Abdel Atti and an accompanying delegation have flied Monday to Sweden yo participate in the annual Wold Water Week in Stockholm due to be held in period between Aug. 28 and Sept. 2.

Chairperson Deputy of the Educational Committee at the Parliament Hani Abaza has summoned Minister of Education al-Hilali al-Sherbini to speak at the parliament on the Minisyer’s decision of cancelling mid-term exams of the Thanawyia Amma (high school diploma), Youm7 reported.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Ali Abdel-Aal decided Monday to ban photojournalists to cover the parliament session after Youm7 photojournalist Kareem Abel Aziz captured Abdel-Aal when he gave a kiss for the members.

Two police conscripts were injured on Monday evening as a gunman opened fire on a security checkpoint located on Haram Street in Giza.