The Ministry of Health has decided to issue a "drug monitoring" system which aims to control the pharmaceutical market, eliminate drug fraud and prevent the spread of illegal and unknown medicines in Egypt.

Egypt's Army Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazy held talks on Monday with his Kuwaiti counterpart Lieutenant-General Mohamed Ahmed al-Khader as part of his official visit to Cairo, state-run news agency MENA reported.

The State Council on Saturday rejected a new draft law on the Judicial Authority, which includes amendments to some articles regulating the State Council, the State Lawsuits Authority (SLA) and the Administrative Prosecution Authority (SIS). The Parliament on Monday approved amendments to the Judicial Authority Law on the same day it was put up for discussion; some MPs complained they hadn't had enough time to read it.

Aya Hegazy, founder of the Beladi Foundation to help street children, and her husband, Mohamed Hussanein, were acquitted from charges on Sunday, along with five other NGO members. Spending nearly three years in prison without official charges but accusations of using street children in political protests, Hegazy’s case sparked local and international controversy, to which her US citizenship added attention.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met on Wednesday with Cypriot Minister of Defence Christoforos Fokaides in Cairo where they discussed military cooperation and the latest developments in the Middle East, the Egyptian presidency announced.

A survey carried out by The Egyptian Center For Public Opinion Research (Baseera) revealed that 63 percent of Egyptians believe that the adoption of the three-month state of emergency will help combat terrorism, whereas 17 percent believe it won’t be effective.

The Egyptian parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday in favour of imposing a state of emergency declared by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday. The measure comes following two deadly suicide bombings that hit Egypt's St George Cathedral in Tanta and St Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria on Palm Sunday, killing 46 and injuring dozens more during prayer services.

Al-Masry Al-Youm (AMAY) received official internal correspondence between some of Al-Ahram institution officials, revealing a disagreement between Ahmed al-Naggar, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Mohamed Abdelhadi Allam, the Editor-in-Chief. The correspondence between them, reviewed by AMAY, sheds light on the reasons behind the reported halting of Tuesday's issue last night at the institution's print house.

Egypt’s cabinet approved on Monday a decision to impose a nationwide state of emergency for three months starting 10 April at 1 pm.

For the first time in Egyptian police history, the list of the victims of Egypt's Palm Sunday blasts included three female policewomen, one officer and two low-ranking personnel, who died in the line of duty while checking security at the main gate of the St. Mark’s church in Alexandria. The three victims are General Nagwa Abdelaal Al-Haggar and two low ranking personnel, Omnia Roshdy and Asmaa Ibrahim Hussien.

At least 11 people were killed and 33 injured in an explosion at Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria on Sunday, Ministry of Health spokesperson Khaled Megahed reported. The explosion occurred a few minutes after the departure of Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II from the church. Media outlets reported that the head of the investigation bureau of Al-Attarin district was among the dead.

Egypt's president called for a three-month state of emergency Sunday after at least 43 people were killed and more than 100 more were injured in two Palm Sunday suicide attacks at Coptic Christian churches, each carried out by the ISIS terror group. Sunday's first blast happened at St. George Church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, where at least 27 people were killed and 78 others wounded, officials said.

A bomb exploded on Sunday morning, between 9.30 am and 10.00 am near Mar Girgis Church in Tanta, Al-Gharbeya, leaving 13 killed and 42 injured so far, local media reported.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said he will impose a state of emergency countrywide for three months, following attacks on churches in Tanta and Alexandria on Sunday.

Suicide attacks on two churches in Tanta and Alexandria triggered sharp reactions in Egypt's parliament – the House of Representatives.

Following the deadly attacks on Egyptian Churches in Tanta and Alexandria, which left 45 dead and 118 injured, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ordered the deployment of army forces to secure state institutions all over the country.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told Fox News on Wednesday that he may use his authority in the case of imprisoned Egyptian-American activist Aya Hegazi, once the court has reached a verdict. Fox News' Bret Baier asked the president if her name had come up in discussions with the US administration. "We always act with respect for the law and the judiciary," the Egyptian president told Baier, speaking in Arabic.

As part of the bilateral military co-operation between Egypt and France, Dassault Aviation, a multinational Rafale fighter manufacturing company named based in France, delivered three Rafale fighters to Egypt on Wednesday which represents the third batch of the total deal of 24 fighters, according to a statement released by the official army spokesperson on Facebook. This Egypt-France deal is the first of its kind. For France to sell Rafale fighters to any country, as was the case in February 2015, was unprecedented.

Egypt has strongly condemned what it described as the "indiscriminate bombardment" of Khan Sheikhoun town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, which resulted in the death and injury of hundreds on Tuesday. In a statement the Egyptian foreign ministry said that the "painful and unacceptable" images of the massacre reaffirm the necessity of reaching a political solution to end the crisis in Syria, in light of the international community decisions and UN Security Council Resolution 2254, as well as the Geneva Conventions.