Ramlet Bulaq residents blocked the Corniche in Cairo next to the Maspero building Tuesday evening, protesting ongoing attempts to bulldoze their homes and demanding a meeting with Cairo Governor Osama Kamal.

An Egyptian independent archaeologist has warned on Friday that Antinoupolis, one of the country’s largest archaeological sites located in Minya, is being “destroyed systematically” by residents amid a complete failure from the government to protect the site.

An Egyptian parliamentary panel decided on Monday to draw up a new election law, aiming to avoid delays after a court cancelled President Mohamed Morsy's decree calling for parliamentary elections in April.

The public prosecution office in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor on Sunday issued arrest warrants for ten leaders of an ongoing strike by local bazaar workers that led to the temporary closure of the city's key historic sites last week.

A report issued by a judicial fact-finding committee appointed by President Mohamed Morsy last June has proved serious violations of protesters' civil and political rights were carried out by Egypt’s military rulers during an 18-month transitional period following the ouster of the country’s strongman Hosni Mubarak.

A military source who spoke to Ahram Online on Monday slammed recent statements by the office of Egypt's prosecutor-general in which the latter gave the green light to members of the public to make citizen's arrests of anyone found committing acts of vandalism.

Cairo's emergency court will look into the lawsuit that seeks to revoke the American citizenship of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's son and daughter on Monday.

DOHA — Qatar does not expect to give further financial aid to Egypt in the immediate future, Qatari Finance Minister Youssef Kamal said Monday.

President Mohamed Morsy is sending an envoy to the leaders of the National Salvation Front opposition bloc in an effort to persuade them to attend national dialogue sessions, a presidential source said.

Talks of the Interior Ministry contracting private security companies have created a stir, especially after a leading member of the Freedom and Justice Party called for granting them arrest powers.

Egypt signed an agreement with the US government Sunday under the terms of which it will receive a $190 million grant to back its state budget, reported Al-Ahram Arabic-language news site.

The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) has announced that the annual inflation rate increased during February by 2.8 percent to 8.7 percent (132.8 points), reaching its highest monthly rate since September 2010. CAPMAS head Major General Abu Bakr al-Guindy said Sunday that foreign exchange rates, especially with the Egyptian pound against the US dollar, caused price hikes across all sectors in February. The biggest hikes were in food prices, which went up by 2.9 percent from January, but medicine prices also spiked and affected the local health care sector, Guindy said. He added that although diesel fuel and butane gas prices went up, they didn’t affect overall inflation rates. The Egyptian economy has been hit hard since the January 2011 uprising overthrew former President Hosni Mubarak. The country is facing a budget deficit of LE180 billion, which it is seeking to fill with loans from other Arab countries and international organizations. The government is in negotiations for a US$4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, which has offered the loan conditioned upon an economic reform program that includes austerity measures.

The Higher Committee of the leftist-liberal Egyptian Social Democratic Party (SDP) held an urgent press conference late on Saturday in which it announced it would boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Egypt's Administrative Court has halted an order it issued 9 February banning YouTube in the country for a month. The court accepted an appearl by the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) on the order.

The Interior Ministry warned Saturday that it would take "strict procedures" to combat ongoing attacks against authorities and institutions, after an attack by Ultras Ahlawy members Saturday left the Egyptian Football Association and the Police Club in Gezira in flames.

All Egyptian football documents were completely burned and the national team's trophies stolen, Egyptian Football Association (EFA) Chief Executive Sarwat Swelam reveals Saturday.

Suez Canal Authority spokesperson Tareq Hassanein said Saturday that the canal is safe for navigation and that traffic continues as normal, after earlier news reports said that protesters in Port Said were blocking ferries from the city's harbor.

Egyptian State Security (Amn Al-Dowla) officers on Thursday declared their refusal to protect President Mohamed Morsi's personal residence in the Nile Delta city of Zagazig, the president's hometown

Wednesday's Administrative Court decision throwing President Mohamed Morsi's call for April parliamentary polls into doubt prompted diverse reactions from Egyptian political figures.

The Egyptian presidency "respects the Administrative Court's ruling to suspend lower house elections and [its decision to] refer the elections law back to the Constitutional Court," according to a statement released on the presidency's official Twitter account on Wednesday.

A video obtained by Al-Masry Al-Youm purports to show another man being dragged by police in plain clothes Tuesday in the Monufiya Governorate.