Employees at the Ministry of Tourism and the Tourism Promotion Authority will hold protests on Thursday in front of their Cairo offices against the new governor of Luxor, according to a tourism ministry official.

The European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton held separate meetings with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the secretary-general of Egypt's opposition umbrella group the National Salvation Front (NSF), Mounir Fakry Abdel-Nour, in Cairo on Wednesday.

Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb warned members of different Islamist groups against accusing their opponents of blasphemy on Wednesday.

Gabha Youth Organisation (GYO) announced on Tuesday the commencement of “independence week” on 25 June, set to include several events in preparation for 30 June protests against the government of President Mohamed Morsi.

Members of the political coalition Al-Tayar Al-Sha’aby on Tuesday contributed their share of signed petitions to the Tamarod signature campaign.

Prime Minister Hesham Qandil rejected the resignation of Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou, Qandil said in a press conference on Wednesday.

June 30th marks Mohamed Morsi's first anniversary as President of Egypt. It is also the date set for nationwide demonstrations protesting Morsi's increasingly authoritarian leadership and the role his Muslim Brotherhood is playing in post-Tahrir Egypt.

Thai Foreign Affairs Ministry called back to Thailand the female Thai diplomat who allegedly assaulted an Egyptian woman at a Cairo hotel, as a precaution for her safety as there were reportedly threats against her.

Addis Ababa — Ethiopian foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom on Monday met his visiting Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Kamel Amr, in Addis Ababa where the two sides discussed Ethiopia's controversial dam (Grand Renaissance Dam), which Cairo says will diminish its water share from the Nile River.

Egyptian Investment Minister Yehya Hamed said on Monday he aimed to boost Egypt’s anemic economic growth to as high as seven percent in two years by improving the environment for private investors.

Iraq agreed in principle on Monday to provide both Egypt and Sudan with crude oil to be purchased on credit, Egyptian state news agency MENA reported on Monday.

The Saudi health authority in the city of Medina on Monday sentenced an Egyptian doctor accused of performing male circumcisions without a license to six months in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of 100,000 Saudi riyals.

President Mohamed Morsi has replaced 17 of Egypt's governors, including the choice in Luxor of a member of an Islamist party linked to a deadly attack on tourists in the ancient temple city, reports said Monday.

The Shura Council referred an amended version of the Law on the Exercise of Political Rights to the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) on Sunday.

An Alexandria criminal court acquitted on Monday police officer Ahmed Mostafa Kamel, who was charged with torturing suspect Sayed Belal to death.

A flight from Egypt to the United States was diverted, escorted by fighter jets and forced to make an emergency landing in the U.K. after a passenger found a letter on the plane that threatened the aircraft.

Egypt's president has appointed 17 new provincial governors, including seven members of his Muslim Brotherhood, adding to its power.

Egypt will not intervene militarily in any neighbouring country, an Egyptian military source was quoted as saying by Egyptian state news agency MENA on Sunday.

The Egyptian army will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, the state news agency quoted a military source as saying on Sunday, one day after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi backed the idea of a no-fly zone in Syria.

If planned 30 June anti-government protests are successful in forcing early presidential elections, Egypt's political opposition will have only one candidate to represent it this time around "unlike the last elections" one year ago, reform campaigner Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday.

Syrian opposition groups have welcomed President Mohamed Morsi’s support for their uprising against Bashar Al-Assad’s regime voiced in a speech on Saturday. Meanwhile Egyptian opposition leaders have criticised the timing of his announcement ahead of planned anti-Morsi protests on 30 June.