The Social Solidarity Ministry announced Saturday the launch of a program to shelter and protect homeless children in 10 governorates.

The Ethiopian Health Ministry has suspended the importation of pharmaceuticals from 11 Egyptian manufacturers following a visit to Egypt that indicated the factories did not meet Ethiopian health standards.

A total of 75.7 percent of Egyptian high school students passed this year's thanweya amma exams, the education minister announced on Sunday.

El-Maasara village, in the north west of Dakahlia governorate, celebrated long into the night following the wedding ceremony of a 12-year-old boy and his ten-year-old bride this weekend.

Solar Impulse 2 flew from Cairo Sunday morning to the UAE’s Abu Dhabi, a two-day trip that will conclude its around the world mission.

An Egyptian legal body that acts on behalf of the government has appealed a court ruling that overturned a decision to seize assets belonging to Egyptian football star Mohamed Abou-Treika.

"Egypt is seeking to remedy what has been perpetrated against us by foreign forces that have carried out plots, starting with Iraq--as reports in recent days show--that have weakened the state…and opened the door for extremist groups," Shoukry told a ministerial gathering of the Arab League on Saturday.

Debris from EgyptAir flight 804, which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in May, washed up on Israel’s coast for the second time in less than a month, Israeli media reported.

Egypt strongly condemned Friday a terrorist attack in Germany's Munich that left at least nine dead, a foreign affairs ministry statement read.

A British committee of five aviation experts concluded its inspection of security procedures at Cairo International Airport on Friday, noting in preliminary comments that they had "no reservations" about the present level of security at the airport.

A committee from Britain's air transport security department inspected the security measures at Cairo International Airport on Wednesday, with particular focus on British Airways flight no.154 heading to London, praising the high level of security in place.

Egypt and the United States have reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate on defeating the terror group Islamist State (IS), emphasizing the long history of Egypt-US cooperation on security issues within the MENA region and globally.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) rate among girls who fall in the age group of 15 to 17 years old has reached 61 percent.

A massive fire erupted at a paints factory in an industrial zone in 6 of October district in Giza; at least 20 fire engines were dispatched to put out the blaze.

Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his Norwegian and U.K. counterparts Thursday on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting for the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported.

The government has received three offers from South Korea, China and the European Union to fund the execution of the fifth and sixth lines of Egypt’s metro, Al-Shorouk news website quoted the Minister of Transport Gala el-Saeed.

A reshuffle of Egyptian provincial governors is expected to take place on Friday, informed sources told Al-Ahram Arabic newspaper, adding that the prime minister had conducted interviews with the candidates.

Egypt supports efforts aiming to achieve calm in South Sudan, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told his South Sudan counterpart Silva Kiir in a phone call Wednesday.

An upcoming visit to Egypt of Russian specialists for completion of the Egyptian airports security audit depends on fulfillment of security requirements by the Egyptian side, a Russian transport ministry representative told Russia’s news agency TASS on Wednesday.

Financial cooperation between Egypt and Spain will increase from 175.8 million euros to reach 300 million euros after an exchange of letters between officials from both countries, the Egyptian ministry of international cooperation announced on Thursday.

Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights discussed the sectarian tensions witnessed in Minya’s village during its meeting held on Thursday.