Egypt's president has condemned Israel's airstrikes against Syria, calling them a violation of international law and warning they complicate the ongoing civil war in that country.

The Egyptian government has not received any official notification saying that Australia has suspended livestock exports to Egypt after a graphic video circulated purportedly showing animal cruelty in Egyptian abattoirs, prompting Canberra to launch an investigation, the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture reported Saturday.

A limited cabinet reshuffle will see six ministers replaced in Egypt, state newspaper al-Ahram said on Thursday, citing government sources.

Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil met with Al-Azhar University students on Wednesday to discuss a second mass food poisoning incident on campus.

A joint venture agreement between EFG-Hermes, the leading Middle East investment bank, and QInvest of Qatar has collapsed because the regulator in Egypt did not give its approval in time.

A US embassy car has crashed in the 6th of October district of Cairo, leaving one employee dead and three injured, including a military attache who was driving the vehicle.

Journalist and political activist Ahmed Doma is being held in Damanhur prison after the appeals prosecution in Tanta ordered him detained for four days, his lawyer said.

Egypt's leading opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said Tuesday he believes the Islamist president will eventually be forced to reach out to the opposition because his group is losing support and isn't able to tackle the country's myriad problems alone.

A U.S. congressional delegation reaffirmed Washington's support for Egypt on Tuesday during its meeting with President Mohamed Mursi.

On Monday 29 April the embassy of the Czech Republic in Egypt screened the Czech film Vratne Lahve, or ‘Empties’. The film was shown with Arabic subtitles, after being translated by students from the Czech Language Department of the Al-Alsun Faculty at Ain Shams University. The embassy described their efforts as “the first student activity in Al-Alsun RE/ACT within one of its projects called RE/TRANS”.

Columnist Gamal Abou Al-Hassan tackles the subject of being a woman. He first mentions his daughter Lila, who seems to be “mesmerised” by actress Soad Hosni and her sense of “truthful joy”. He also mentions that Hosni was “unashamed” of her body, and was not shy to announce her admiration for a man in her song Ya Wad Ya Te’eel (Oh, you who are playing hard to get). He describes her as a woman “that looks straight into men’s eyes instead of looking at the floor in coy shyness”.

On Wednesday, Egyptian workers will celebrate the first Labour Day since the election of President Mohamed Morsi, by voicing longstanding demands and unfulfilled promises.

On Wednesday, Egyptian workers will celebrate the first Labour Day since the election of President Mohamed Morsi, by voicing longstanding demands and unfulfilled promises.

Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim, also minister of foreign affairs, has arrived in Cairo early Tuesday from New York.

Egypt should refuse a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund rather than submit to terms that would further impoverish the poor and could spark a revolution of the hungry, leftist leader Hamdeen Sabbahi said on Monday.

The Judges Club board and members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) are meeting at the High Court in Cairo to discuss whether they will take part in the judicial reform conference called for by President Mohamed Morsi.

Over 100 students from Egypt's top Islamic university were hit by food poisoning on Monday evening, less than a month after a mass poisoning incident at the same university left more than 500 students hospitalized.

Egypt's parliament halted its reading of a new income tax law on Monday, saying the government had not shown who would be affected by the measures and how much it would generate in revenues.

The 5 percent interest rate that Qatar has requested for a potential $3 billion worth of Egyptian treasury bonds is not particularly low, but the cash-strapped Egyptian government is likely to accept it nonetheless.

Egypt has signed a financial and technical cooperation agreement with Germany worth 172.6 million euros, state-owned news agency MENA reported on Monday.

Cairo University students who live in the university’s dormitories banned staff from entering the dormitory's administrative buildings on Monday morning for the second day, according to Al-Ahram’s Arabic language website.