The Egyptian State’s Commissioner Authority on Sunday has set May 31 to review lawsuits demanding the annulment of Egypt government’s decision to acknowledge Saudi Arabian sovereignty over the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, Al Ahram reported.

Four police personnel were released on bail Saturday while three others were detained pending investigations over “beating an elderly man to death” at a police station in Cairo Wednesday, Youm7 reported.

An Egyptian court sentenced Mubarak-era parliament speaker Safwat al-Sherif and his son to five years in prison for illicit profiteering and abusing power to make fortunes on Saturday.

The current head of the Supreme Constitutional Court and the country's former interim president, Adly Mansour, will step down from his post on 30 June

Egypt's president Sisi approved a $25 bln loan from Russia to build a nuclear power plant in Dabaa, according to the state's official newspaper published on Thursday.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's central bank said it is offering $120 million in its regular currency sale on Tuesday to be used for imports of pharmaceutical products, manufacturing components, vaccines and related chemicals and infant formula.

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As the Egyptian pound threatens to devaluate again, the Minister of Health hopes to promote local manufacturing of medicine.

Egypt's air accidents chief said on Thursday that a vessel provided by French company ALSEAMAR, which specializes in marine wreckage searches, will join within hours the hunt for the black boxes from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804.

Forty-seven people handed heavy fines for taking part in illegal protests have been denied permission to pay their fines in installments, meaning they may spend two months in prison instead.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion discussed Wednesday international efforts of reviving the stalled peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine as well as the Ottawa-Cairo military cooperation in the Sinai, Egyptian Presidential Spokesperson Alaa Youssef said in a statement.

Egypt’s central bank deputy governor for monetary policy is joining the International Monetary Fund in August, a central bank source told Reuters on Thursday.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) is to print LE 500 million of one pound banknotes by the beginning of Ramadan, say prominent banking sources.

Egyptian authorities have reached their domestic wheat procurement target for this harvest season, Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture announced on Wednesday.

In an effort to tap into unused public sector assets, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail held a meeting Tuesday over plans to establish a Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Egypt’s revenues from the Suez Canal increased by 0.6 percent to reach $882.4 million during the first quarter of 2016, compared to $876.7 million during the same period last year, the Egyptian Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) announced in a statement Wednesday.

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed arrived in Cairo Wednesday for a short visit to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, state owned MENA agency reported.

An Egyptian appeals court revoked on Tuesday five-year prison sentences handed down earlier this month to 47 defendants for “inciting protests” against the president’s decision to transfer two islands to Saudi control.

It has been seventeen years since US investigators suggested co-pilot Gameel El-Batouti intentionally caused EgyptAir flight 990 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of America in an act of suicide that killed all 216 people on board with him.

Egypt's public prosecutor formally requested data on the crashed EgyptAir plane from France and Greece on Monday, as the victims' remains began arriving at a Cairo morgue ready for DNA testing.

A Cairo prosecution has extended the pre-trial detention of members of a satirical street performance group for 15 days pending investigations over charges of inciting protests against the state, Youm7 reported Tuesday.