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.

A parliamentary fact-finding commission's report on corruption in the country's wheat industry was referred to the prosecutor general and an anti-corruption watchdog agency by the speaker of the Egyptian House of Representatives on Monday.

Cairo has strongly condemned a terrorist attack on a Yemeni army recruitment centre in Aden on Monday which killed at least 70 people, the deadliest militant attack in the city in over a year.

Prosecutors in the Egyptian governorate of South Sinai are questioning a beach resort official after he allegedly attempted to ban a woman from wearing a full-body burkini in a swimming pool and verbally berated her.

Experts from Russia and Germany are in Egypt to inspect the wreckage of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Sinai last year killing all 224 people on board, the Egyptian-led investigating committee said on Monday.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry flew to Paris on Monday for talks related to ongoing efforts to revive the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, the foreign ministry said.

Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal demanded Monday to grant tourist companies a one or two year notice before applying the value added tax act due to the drop in tourism industry in the country, Youm7 reported.

The Swiss Federal Court ruled to accept an Egyptian appeal to resume internal investigations into suspicion of participation or support of a criminal organization in Mubarak’s obtaining of assets.

The Electricity Ministry has been engaged in a tit-for-tat battle with the Greater Cairo Water Company (GCWC) over allegations of unpaid electricity bills, after the GCWC allegedly failed to pay a bill estimated at hundreds of thousands of pounds to the ministry.

The Egyptian parliament has approved a legal amendment that will raise fees for Egyptians seeking government permission to work abroad.

Egyptian businessman Rafaat Nossair, a defendant in the ongoing wheat corruption scandal, was released on Monday on EGP 500,000 bail after he paid off the EGP 77 million in state funds he was accused of stealing, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

South Cairo prosecution ordered Monday afternoon the four-day detention pending investigation of a low-ranking policeman who killed a microbus driver Sunday night, on charges him with murder.

The preparatory meeting for the 26th session of the Egyptian-Jordanian Higher Committee are kicking off on Monday to discuss enhancing bilateral relations between the two Arab countries.

The major Egyptian parliamentary leftist bloc known as the 25-30 group stated on Monday that they would not apologise for a press conference they held on Sunday evening to voice their opposition of the new valued-added tax (VAT) law.

Tourist numbers in Egypt have dropped by 41.9 percent in July compared with the same month last year, the state's official statistics authority announced on Monday.

Investigators from Egypt's National Security Agency are stepping up efforts to identify the administrators of a Facebook page called “We are all Saleh Selim” that has been accused of slandering Al-Ahly Sporting Club, while harshly criticising the police, the military and the judiciary.

Three Suez Canal workers were injured on Sunday night when two launches for the canal's authority capsized in the waterway. The workers have been transferred to hospital for treatment.

Egypt's House of Representatives gave its initial approval for a bill to introduce Value-Added Tax (VAT) during preliminary discussions in parliament on Sunday, with a number of sources claiming the a rate of 13 percent was agreed on.