The word "fire" is heard on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir 804 before the plane crashed into the Mediterranean in May, an Egyptian-led investigative committee said Saturday.

State airline EgyptAir resumed flights on Sunday to Istanbul, the company said in a statement, following a one-day halt after an overnight coup attempt in Turkey.

Italy has been advised to stop the escalation against Egypt over the death of Italian student Guilio Regeni, the chief of the Egyptian Parliament’s foreign affairs committee said Sunday.

Cairo is ready to cooperate with any state, including Turkey, given it does not interfere in Egyptian domestic affairs, Egyptian speaker of parliament Ali Abdel-Al told Sputink news during an official visit to Russia.

TV host Amr Adib has ended his 20-year association with the Orbit television channel, saying that he will not renew his contract, which ended recently.

A six-story building collapsed on Syria Street, west of Shubra al-Kheima district, on Wednesday evening. There were no reported deaths resulting from the collapse, with all residents evacuating shortly before the building came down.

EgyptAir announced on Wednesday the renewal of cooperation with aircraft maker Boeing by purchasing nine of the latest 737 aircraft with a total value of about US$864 million (almost LE9 billion).

The Agriculture Ministry has issued a final rejection to a shipment of wheat from the US, saying that it has levels of ergot fungus that breach international standards.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shouky held talks Wednesday with African counterparts on the conflict in South Sudan and relations between Nile Basin countries as part of his current visit to Rwanda.

Kamal Amer, head of the Egyptian parliament's Defence ‎and National Security Committee, told reporters that ‎representatives from various state bodies will attend a high-level parliamentary ‎meeting on Monday “upon ‎the orders of speaker Ali Abdel-Al and in response ‎to Italy's decision not to supply Egypt with some ‎spare parts for F-16 fighter planes.”

Egypt’s stocks rebounded on Wednesday in a trading session that saw Arab investors as net buyers. The market’s benchmark EGX30 rose 1.37 percent to 7,559 points with almost all heavyweight shares registering gains. Out of 159 stocks listed for the day, 91 increased and 31 declined. The daily turnover registered at EGP 653.5 million, less than trading over the last three sessions.

Egypt's police have been implicated in an "unprecedented spike" in enforced disappearances since early 2015 aimed at quashing dissent, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday, while Cairo responded with a strongly worded statement accusing the organization of bias and prejudice.

Harsh prison verdicts, prolonged remands, security violence, unfounded criminal charges, and other means of oppressing freedom of expression are prevalent in Egypt, promoted by Egypt’s controversial Protest Law of November 2013.

Egypt's foreign ministry urged Egyptian citizens in South Sudan's capital Juba to take extreme care and stay in their places of residence until clashes cease, according to a statement issued late Tuesday, the first day of a ceasefire that followed five days of violence.

Eighteen Master's and PhD degree holders were briefly detained Tuesday before being released in the early hours of Wednesday for protesting in front of the Cabinet building in downtown Cairo, Ahram Arabic website reported.

Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is set to head to China in September to participate in a G20 Summit for the first time, Egypt’s trade minister announced on Tuesday. In an official statement by the trade ministry, minister Tarik Kabil said El-Sisi would travel to China to participate as a guest in the 2016 G20 Summit at the invitation of Chinese president and Summit chairman Xi Jinping.

Egypt's central bank will keep the Egyptian pound stable at 8.78 to the dollar at its weekly foreign exchange auction on Tuesday, banking sources said, confounding market expectations of an impending devaluation that had driven up stocks.

Qena Criminal Court sentenced, Tuesday, a first lieutenant and five police informants to prison over the beating to death of a detainee in Luxor Police Station in November 2015. First Lieutenant Samir Hany was given seven years of prison with hard labor, and informants Moussa Youssef, Mostafa Gamal, Mohamed Abu Ghanima, Mahmoud Sayyed and Mersal Hanafi were sentenced to three years.

Parliament's Human Rights Committee has announced plans to engage in dialogue with foreign ambassadors to Egypt to explain the development of the human rights situation in the country over the past few years.

Ain Sokhna Port investigation police and customs authorities thwarted an attempt on Monday to smuggle a large shipment of the banned painkiller, tramadol into Egypt from India for the second time in just over a week.

The number of tourists who visited Egypt in May dropped by 51.7 percent compared to the same month during the previous year, the country's state statistics body CAPMAS said in a Tuesday statement.