A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrived in Egypt on Saturday for an official visit to discuss a support plan for the government’s economic reform project.

Egypt's population might hit 140 million in 2030 if the current rate of population growth continues, the rapporteur of the country's National Population Council said on Sunday.

Egyptian Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar discussed security cooperation with a British parliamentary delegation in Cairo headed by MP Gerald Howarth on Thursday, a ministry statement said.

Hurghada prosecutors have formed a committee of traffic experts and officers to inspect the scene of an accident involving a bus and a truck that killed three and injured 33 others on Friday morning.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov discussed step-by-step aviation security measures at regular consultations with his Egyptian counterpart, Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi, the Russian ministry said Friday.

A forensic report on the death Mohamed Samir, 29, whose body was found in the Nile last week, has stated that he died of asphyxiation water, a conclusion that appears to support police claims that the man drowned while escaping from police in Imbaba, Cairo.

Egypt's Court of Cassation has set the date of October 25 to review an appeal from suspects in the "Espionage for Hamas" trial, in which former president Mohamed Morsy and several others were variously handed prision terms and death sentences last year.

Israel has handed over materials that it claims are probably wreckage from an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, with the loss of 66 lives.

A delegation of U.K. House of Commons will visit Red Sea’s resort of Sharm El Sheikh Friday, to support the tourist activity, Youm7 reported Thursday evening.

Russian Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov has stated that Russian suspended flights to Egypt could be resumed by the end of 2016, noting that the resumption depend on security measures that Egypt will take in airports, Youm7 reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday praised warming relations with Egypt and its president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who ousted an Islamist government seen as hostile to ties between the neighbors.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry spoke with US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday about regional developments in a phone call, according to an Egyptian foreign ministry statement, two days before Kerry is set to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that the size of Egypt's financing program will be determined by a two-week IMF mission to Cairo starting this weekend.

Egypt's foreign ministry said its envoy in Berlin received on Thursday an official letter from the German foreign ministry stating that an Egyptian national who died in a hospital in Germany's Essen on 22 June had attempted suicide six days earlier.

A Cairo misdemeanor court sentenced Thursday afternoon the country's former top auditor Hisham Geneina to one year in jail and an EGP 20,000 fine for “spreading false news” about alleged corruption in the public sector. The court also set EGP 10,000 bail pending an appeal.

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit Egypt Saturday to hold talks with the Egyptian government on financing the country’s economic reform programme, the organisation said in a statement on Thursday.

Member of Parliament Ahmed Mortada Mansour, candidate for the Free Egyptians party, said he has the right to appeal the court decision on his dismissal, in a press conference on Wednesday.

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit Egypt Saturday to hold talks with the Egyptian government on financing the country’s economic reform programme, the organisation said in a statement on Thursday.

The price of the US dollar has fallen against the Egyptian pound on the black market after the official announcement of negotiations between Egypt and the IMF regarding a US$12 billion loan package.

Egypt has expressed reservations on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) draft resolution to list the Gulen movement as a terrorist organisation, an official in the Islamic organisation said.

Health Minister Ahmed Emad Eddin has announced the end of government waiting lists for patients seeking the latest drug treatment for hepatitis-C.