Egypt's Ministry of Finance has withdrawn the 2013/14 draft budget it submitted unofficially to the Shura Council in late March. It will make adjustments to comply with the updated economic plan it recently submitted to the International Monetary Fund.

A Cairo court approved on Saturday the release of the ousted President Hosni Mubarak, accepting his appeal to be released pending trial, the former president is currently arrested for charges of graft and corruption.

Dostour Party head Mohamed ElBaradei said the Muslim Brotherhood’s protest calling for the "purging of the judiciary" is evidence that “demagoguery is the dominant feature of the [Morsy] regime in understanding and addressing problems,” he wrote on his Twitter account Friday afternoon.

Dozens of members of a group dedicated to defending the Prophet Mohamed, his friends and relatives staged a protest on Friday outside the Giza Security Directorate. The protest was in response to a claim filed against Shia activist Amr Ibrahim, accusing him of insulting the Prophet Mohamed's wife Aisha and his close friends on his Facebook page and in a video.

Egypt's police has arrested thirty-nine people, including a US citizen, following violence at the High Court protest in downtown Cairo. Thousands of Islamist protesters, mainly Muslim Brotherhood members, held a rally at the High Court on Friday to demand judiciary reforms when confrontations erupted between them and unknown opponents, leaving at least 87 injured.

An Egyptian government official said a technical report on the impact of the new Ethiopian mega dam, currently under construction, will reveal the need for Addis Ababa to attend to safety and environmental concerns at the construction process.

The Justice Ministry has condemned the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Cleansing the Judiciary” protest planned for Friday in front of the High Court.

The National Salvation Front (NSF) has reasserted its desire to participate in upcoming parliamentary elections – if its demands are met.

Former Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud has appealed a 27 March ruling by the Court of Appeals that ordered his reinstatement, and invalidated the appointment of current top prosecutor Talaat Abdallah.

Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef has been included in Time magazine's '100 most influential people in the world' for 2013, it was announced on Thursday.

The country may struggle on for the rest of the year without an IMF loan, enduring a summer of fuel shortages and power cuts rather than risk an explosion of unrest by implementing subsidy cuts and tax increases before parliamentary elections.

The famous Valley of the Kings tourist attraction in Luxor reopened Tuesday after a police protest prevented visitors from entering, according to State Television’s website.

April 6 Youth Movement (Democratic Front) has announced plans to join forces with the family of Ahmed El-Gizawi, an Egyptian lawyer detained in Saudi Arabia, in a silent protest on Wednesday outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Cairo.

The Egyptian government is still seeking the approval of Egypt's political parties over the long-awaited $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is expected to ease the budget deficit in the coming fiscal year 2013/14.

State security prosecution decided Tuesday to detain Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, sons of ousted President Hosni Mubarak for 15 days pending investigations in the case known in the media as the ‘presidential palaces’ case.

A team from the International Monetary Fund concluded a two week visit to Egypt on Monday without signing a deal on a much-anticipated $4.8 billion loan, but the international lender said progress with Egypt was achieved.

A state security officer, Osama El-Keneisy, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for torturing Sayed Belal to death during investigations into a bomb attack at the Two Saints Church in Alexandria.

Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi testified at Giza Criminal Court at the Police Academy for 30 minutes Tuesday at the trial of dozens of senior intelligence officers accused of ordering the destruction of important documents.

Egypt's unemployment rate for 2012 grew to 12.7 percent, mainly due to the "circumstances that followed the January 25 Revolution," the country's official statistics agency, CAPMAS, said on Tuesday.

A report by a fact-finding committee appointed by President Mohamed Morsy that had implicated the Armed Forces in torture and other human rights abuses against protesters during the 25 January revolution did not, in fact, contain any evidence that the military had committed such acts, claimed Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah on Monday.

MINYA, Egypt, April 15 (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist-led government must be dreaming if it expects a bumper wheat harvest over the next six weeks that will save the country billions of dollars in imports, says farmer Farid Boshra Abdel Malek.