Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Sidqy Sobhy said that the Libyan and Egyptian armed forces would cooperate in all fields at a press conference with his Libyan counterpart on Wednesday.

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has ordered the withdrawal of legal complaints filed by the presidency against journalists, in a move that appeared aimed at fending off accusations of a crackdown on dissent by the Islamist-led authorities.

The Egyptian army's chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Sedki Sobhi, has arrived in Tripoli for talks with his Libyan counterpart, Youssef Al-Manqoush.

Egyptian train services are operating at 'eighty percent' capacity on Tuesday and are expected to be back to normal by the end of the day, Nagwa Albeir, Egypt's Railway Authority spokeswoman, has told Ahram Online.

Deputy Freedom and Justice Party chairman Essam al-Erian has accused leading opposition figure and former UN International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei of treason for allegedly approving the US invasion of Iraq.

Prime Minister Hesham Qandil said Tuesday that a panel of unaffiliated legal experts will introduce amendments to 15 articles of the Constitution that need to be changed.

Egypt's prime minister was due in Qatar on Tuesday for talks with his country's biggest Gulf Arab financial backer as Cairo is negotiating for an IMF loan to help ease a deepening economic crisis.

A man believed to be a bodyguard of Muslim Brotherhood’s second-in-command, Khairat El-Shater, was given a one year sentence for possessing an unlicensed firearm by a Cairo criminal court on Tuesday.

Train drivers strike continued for the second day, in the state-run Egyptian Railway Authority, in protest to “government neglect of their demands for higher salaries.”

Egypt is expected to experience numerous power cuts this summer due to ongoing shortages of fuel, including natural gas and the low-quality diesel fuel mazut.

Mohamed ElBaradei, founder of the Dostour Party, said he would not enter into a dialogue with President Mohamed Morsy’s administration in the absence of an independent Cabinet capable of supervising elections, a credible prime minister, an independent prosecutor general and a committee to draft a new election law.

An opinion poll published Sunday said the percentage of Egyptians who approve of President Mohamed Morsy’s job performance declined to 47 percent, while 37 percent would vote for him if presidential elections were held tomorrow.

Co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement Ahmed Maher has called for Egypt’s interior minister to be dismissed and tried for what he described as the minister’s failure to secure citizens and his continued oppression of peaceful demonstrators.

On Saturday, the April 6 Youth Movement, a leading force behind the 2011 revolution and a powerful actor on the political scene since, commemorated the fifth anniversary of a historic strike in the city of Mahalla with anti-government protests in Cairo and a number of other Egyptian governorates.

Egypt's railway workers started a strike on Sunday, bringing train movement across the country to an almost complete halt.

Egypt's top judges have called for Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdullah to resign and return to the judicial bench

Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah ordered the detainment of former President Hosni Mubarak for 15 days pending investigations conducted by the State Security Prosecution on charges of seizing and facilitating the seizure of public money.

A Cairo criminal court on Sunday acquitted Mubarak-era minister Ahmed Shafiq, runner-up in last year's presidential elections, of charges that he had embezzled and squandered public funds while serving as civil aviation minister before the 2011 revolution.

Cairo, Egypt - As a former policeman turned politician and a likely ally of Egypt's president, Tamer Meky has harsh words about the security problems in the Arab world's most populous country.

Constitution Party founder and National Salvation Front (NSF) leader Mohamed ElBaradei has said the government and prosecutor-general should step down for the sake of the country.

Egypt's Net International Reserves (NIR) fell by around $84 million in March to $13,424 billion, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Thursday.