Egypt's newly appointed Prime Minister Hisham Qandil stated on Monday that he has chosen 70 per cent of Cabinet seats, and is presenting this list to President Mohamed Morsi on Monday.

The Constituent Assembly agreed that the president should be given increased powers in the new constitution, including the power to appoint the ministers of defense and foreign affairs.

Cairo Criminal Court has scheduled for 1 October the prosecution closing arguments in the trial of over 250 protesters arrested during the Cabinet clashes last December

The government is keeping Egypt's ongoing fuel crisis under control by distributing extra fuel and gas to meet demand, according to the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade

Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim stated on Saturday that he has not as yet been informed whether he will be keeping his post in the new cabinet.

Activist Anas al-Assal, a paramedic at the field hospitals in Tahrir Square, says an anesthetic drug was injected in his right arm when he was kidnapped Friday.

Jihad el-Khazen, a columnist at the Saudi-owned, London-based newspaper Al-Hayat, alleged on Saturday that Gamal Mubarak was responsible for an assassination attempt on the late Omar Suleiman in an ambush near Qubba hospital on 30 January 2011.

The makeup of Egypt's new government is likely to be decided by the middle of next week, a presidential spokesman said Wednesday, a day after the new prime minister was named by President Mohamed Morsy.

Young revolutionaries have criticized the designation of Hesham Qandil as new prime minister, saying it was outside of all their expectations and questioning the standards of selection.

A number of political parties are set to join the Constitution Party to form an alliance in the upcoming parliamentary elections, said on Wednesday Mohamed ElBaradei, the party’s co-founder.

During routine excavation works at the Archaic period cemetery located at Abu Rawash area northeast of the Giza Plateau, a French archaeological mission from the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo (IFAO) stumbled on what is believed to be a funerary boat of the First Dynasty King Den (dating from around 3000BC).

Public Prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud ordered an investigation of Tawfiq Okasha, a talk show presenter and owner of Al-Faraeen channel, for insulting President Mohamed Morsy, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Wednesday.

The Swiss authorities have frozen more assets belonging to former President Hosni Mubarak and his associates, the Swiss news agency SDA reported on Wednesday.

Prosecutor-General Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud called television anchor and head of Faraeen satellite channel Tawfik Okasha for interrogation, Wednesday, following a lawsuit brought against the controversial presenter accusing him of insulting President Mohamed Morsi and attempting to instigate sectarian strife.

Political infighting dominated half of the general meeting of the Constituent Assembly on Tuesday, but eventually five of the assembly's sub-committees presented the results of their work.

The liberal Constitution Party will form a coalition with other parties at the next parliamentary election, party founder Mohamed ElBaradei said Tuesday.

Egypt's Revolution Youth Union accused President Mohamed Morsi of being "confused" and making a mistake in choosing former irrigation and water resources minister Hisham Kandil as his new premier because Kandil's specialisations are not in line with what the country currently needs, in a press statement Wednesday.

Prosecution heard statements by Gamal Mubarak, son of the former president Hosni Mubarak, on Monday regarding his appeal of a report by the chief medical examiner treating his father, said Major General Mohamed Naguib, the deputy interior minister for prisons.

Users of social networking sites along with news website have been circulating an Israeli ad which they claim ‘insults’ President Mohamed Morsy.

Two soldiers of the Central Security Forces were wounded by a shotgun in Northern Sinai while chasing smugglers across the Egyptian borders, the state news service MENA reported Monday.

The Shura Council’s committee to choose the editors-in-chief of the state newspapers will hold meetings from morning to night until Wednesday as they review prospective candidates, said committee head Fathy Shehab Eddin on Monday.