Egypt's cabinet postponed on Monday the application of a law governing the implementation of daylight saving time, after a poll conducted revealed a desire to cancel it.

Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman says he never heard of European self-proclaimed state Liberland, warning Egyptians of possible embezzlements while seeking to immigrate.

Egypt’s interior ministry said it would take “legal action” against what it said was an “unprofessional” news report in a private daily criticising police practices, in a statement it released on Sunday.

Ruins of the 5,200 year-old enclosure wall, once surrounded Egypt’s most ancient capital city of Memphis, has been unearthed, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said in a statement Saturday.

Minister of Trade and Industry Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour announced Sunday an eight percent anti-dumping tariff on each ton of imported steel (around 408 EGP, or $53/ton) for three years, MENA reported.

The Port Said Criminal Court sentenced 11 defendants to death, whilst postponing the case’s final verdict to a 30 May session.

Digging operations for a new stage of the third metro line in Cairo began on Thursday, the cabinet said in a statement.

The Antiquities Ministry's decision to demolish a Hellenistic-era archaeological site in Alexandria was carried out on Thursday, destroying the ancient ruins and leveling the area into a flat lot.

Egyptian journalist Sherif Choubachy has called for women who wear the Muslim veil join in a protest in Tahrir Square to remove their hijabs in the first week of May.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab inaugurated Thursday digging work on first part of the fourth phase of the Greater Cairo Metro Network Line 3 project, Youm7 reported.

The draft of Egypt’s first anti-cybercrime law was finalized by the Ministry of Justice and will be sent to the State Council for revision before ratification by the president.

Monday’s celebration of the traditional Egyptian spring holiday Sham el-Nessim witnessed a “significant decrease” in sexual harassment incidents, which were mostly limited to catcalling, according to an I Saw Harassment report.

Culture Minister Abdel Wahed al-Nabawy has said that remarks he made on a stout museum curator were intended to be humorous, stressing that his remarks, which the lady referred to in a complaint she shared on Facebook, “were taken out of context”.

The U.N. Security Council has approved an arms embargo on leaders of Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels and their key supporters, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his son.

Egypt’s Minister of Defence Sedky Sobhy on Sunday announced a reshuffle of several senior military positions, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has condemned terrorist attacks in North Sinai and said his country “will continue to maintain its solidarity with the Egyptian people."

A conscript was wounded by a gunshot on Monday morning at a checkpoint in Rafah, North Sinai. Karam Abdo Abdel Shafi, 23, was on watch in the al-Barahma checkpoint on the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip. He was taken to the military hospital in Arish.

While millions of Egyptians mark the national holiday of Sham El-Nessim, one of the few celebrations that bring both Muslim and Coptic Christians together, very few realize that it is a celebration linked directly to ancient Egypt.

Cairo Governor Galal Saeed said 40 solar-powered lampposts have been placed in Matareya Square, a solution that will later be applied in other Cairo squares, if it proves to be successful.

Egypt's agriculture minister Salah El-Din Helal on Monday made a surprise visit to several public gardens around Cairo, where Egyptians are celebrating Sham El-Nessim, a national holiday that marks the beginning of spring.

Taha al-Sharidy, head of the Matareya Fishermen Union, said on Sunday evening that a Sudanese court sentenced 106 Egyptian fishermen to six months in prison, confiscated three boats and imposed a fine of five thousand Sudanese pounds on each of them, for violating international fishing laws and entering Sudanese territorial waters without permit.