Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird will visit Egypt in January to discuss bilateral relations and push for the release of the imprisoned Egyptian – Canadian Al-Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy.

“It is golden age for the bond between the army, the police and the judiciary,” said Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim at the memorial service of the Martyrs of the Daqahliya Security Directorate bombing on Wednesday. “This is an unprecedented bond, and we will achieve security and safety for the Egyptian people.”

Port Said Criminal Court adjourned Wednesday the trial of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 190 other defendants in the case of storming a Port Said police station to 14 January.

President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi ratified Monday the electoral districts law after its cabinet approval earlier this month.

The number of tourists visiting Egypt increased by 79.5 percent in October 2014 compared with October in 2013, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), Egypt’s official statistical agency.

Egyptian and Qatari intelligence officials met in Cairo to discuss a possible reconciliation as part of Saudi efforts to broker an end to the 18-month standoff over Doha's support of the Muslim Brotherhood, security sources said.

We are sceptical but we are going to see; if they keep their word then well and good; we will remain cautious however,” said a senior Egyptian diplomat in remarks shared with Ahram Online on the Egyptian-Qatari rapprochement.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree that approves raising the military pension by 15 percent, presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef said in a statement Tuesday.

The pipeline that carries natural gas to Jordan through Egypt’s North Sinai was struck by an explosion Tuesday for the 27th month since the January 25 Revolution that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak, Youm7 reported.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will sign Tuesday a strategic partnership agreement with China in addition to a number of memorandums of understanding (MoU) in economic, transportation, education, and environment fields for the period from 2015 to 2017 , according to the official state news agency, MENA.

Samia Al-Gendy, the mother of Mohamed Al-Gendy, who died in February 2013 from wounds he received after being arresting during marches commemorating the January 25 Revolution, announced to Al-Shorouq Sunday she intends to run in the coming parliamentary elections.

Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr, a Doha-based broadcaster owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, has ceased broadcasting today based on the Egyptian-Qatari reconciliation

The Tagamu Party, Ghad Party and Conference Party withdrew from the Egyptian Front, an alliance of political parties that will run in the 2014 parliamentary elections, after they failed to agree on candidate lists.

The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) has ordered political satirist Bassem Youssef and his producing company to pay compensation worth of 100 million Egyptian pounds for the satellite network which cancelled his show last year.

On the same day he left to China for political and economic talks, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified an anticipated electoral constituencies law, the final prerequisite for holding parliamentary elections, which would conclude the country's transitional roadmap.

A top Egyptian police official has denied a Friday report in the U.K.’s The Times newspaper accusing Egypt of detaining more than 600 children in a subterranean prison at a police base north of Cairo.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi affirmed to US President Barack Obama Egypt's commitment to democracy, human rights and to the roadmap unveiled after the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, in a phone call on Thursday.

A court in Port Said has sentenced a Suez Canal official to ten years in jail and two Mossad officers to life in prison on charges of spying for Israel, a judicial source said late on Saturday.

Egypt's intelligence chief Gen. Mohammed Farid el-Tohamy was removed from his post on Sunday, official news agency MENA reported.

A leading labor activist entered on Sunday his second day on hunger strike in protest over his superiors’ crackdown on striking colleagues at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company, according to the Center for Trade Unions and Workers Services.

Former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq has won the presidency for the Egyptian National Movement Party.