HRH Premier thanked by Egyptian President

This is the second gag order to be issued on the case after the prosecution imposed a similar order last year, before the case was referred to court

The interior ministry says gunmen attacked the house of the policemen and shot them dead

Roundup of headlines in Egypt's main state-owned and private newspapers on Jun. 16, 2016:

Egypt's top prosecutor Nabil Sadek flew Wednesday to Cyprus to discuss the extradition of an Egyptian man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and redirected it to the Mediterranean island last March.

A SHIP searching for the wreckage of the missing EgyptAir jet has identified several main locations of the wreckage in the Mediterranean Sea

Tax authorities begin tax evasion and money laundering probe but refuse to say how many people are under investigation

2 tombs to be open for visitors in 15 days at Giza East Field

Russia is proud of the level of its relations with Egypt, in particular the personal relationship between President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Russian ambassador said on Sunday.

Iran has finalized a historic deal with Boeing to buy passenger planes from the U.S. aircraft manufacturer as part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the country's civilian air fleet, Iranian media reported Tuesday.

Egypt's president AbdelFattah al-Sisi said that "stability and security" are the main "achievements" that the country has seen over the past two years, at an iftar dinner on Saturday

Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on Jun. 15, 2016

Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on Jun. 14, 2016

A Cairo misdemeanor court acquitted on Tuesday 51 from charges of illegally protesting on 25 April in downtown Cairo against a recent Egypt-Saudi deal that redrew maritime borders between the two countries. The prosecutors had referred the defendants to court on charges of protesting without a permit as per the country's Protest Law.

Egypt local news

Cairo, Jun 13 (Aswat Masriya) - The ministry of justice has rejected calls for cancelling prison punishments for blasphemy or ‘contempt of religion’ charges, Khaled al-Nashar, a media official and assistant for the ministry of justice said on Monday.

CAIRO, Jun 14 (Reuters) - The flight data recorders from an EgyptAir jet that crashed in the Mediterranean last month are expected to stop emitting signals on June 24, and search boats are working against the clock to retrieve them, Egyptian investigators said on Monday.

Egyptian investigators say time is running out in the search for the black boxes from an Egypt Air plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board.

Roundup of daily local news in Egypt:

Egypt strongly condemned on Sunday the “terrorist attack” in the state of Florida in the US which claimed the lives of 50 people and injured dozens.

The al-Faraeen TV channel, owned by ex-lawmaker and controversial media figure Tawfik Okasha, will resume broadcasting after three months of suspension within days.