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.

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.