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.

Ethiopia failed to submit to Egypt all the required studies on its Grand Renaissance Dam project, according to Magdy Amer, deputy Egyptian foreign minister for irrigation matters.

As Egyptians disillusioned with the ruling Islamist regime gear up for mass anti-government demos 30 June, senior opposition politicians are mulling possible scenarios for developments on the decisive day.

EgyptAir pilots have suspended their strike after talks with Civil Aviation Minister Wael El-Maadawy. One hundred and eighty pilots struck for over three hours on Thursday morning, causing the delay of 20 flights.

After 45 days in detention, security forces have released eight young men arrested in April for being part of the amorphous and outlawed group the "Black Bloc."

An appeal court in Cairo has ordered the retrial of Mubarak-era prime minister Ahmed Nazif on corruption charges, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has said that Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel will visit Ethiopia by the end of June in a bid to make the latter's Renaissance Dam project a "win-win" situation for both countries, according to Al-Ahram Arabic language news website.

Egyptian author was handed a five-year jail sentence Karam Saber by a misdemeanours court in Beni Suef on Wednesday for contempt of religion.

Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr is expected in Addis Ababa next week for talks with top Ethiopian officials over Ethiopia's scheme to construct a mega dam over the Blue Nile that some argue may impact Egypt’s historic share of Nile waters.

The Egyptian Cabinet approved in principle on Wednesday the imposition of harsher penalties for assaulting police personnel.

The Cairo index lost 5.2 percent to 4,598 points, its largest one-day decline since November 2012. It broke below major technical support at the November low of 4,683. There is now no strong support above the 2012 low of 4,027.

Egypt’s total wheat serves currently amount to 3.915 million tonnes, according to a statement by the Cabinet on Wednesday.