Culture minister Farouk Hosni will present his plans for the UNESCO presidency today in his bid to be elected to the top post at the United Nations cultural organization. The election begins next Thursday

Egypt is set to take part in a major strategic maneuver with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, an Egyptian presidential statement said on Tuesday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast a growth of 4 percent in Egypt's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2015, compared to 2.2 percent in 2014, which will continue to grow gradually to 4.3 percent in 2016.

The number of German tourists visiting Egypt increased by 17% during the period between January and March 2015, compared to the same period last year, Egyptian ambassador to Germany Mohamed Hegazy told state-owned MENA news agency.

The head of Egypt’s the liberal Wafd Party has criticised the prime minister’s meetings with political parties on the country's electoral laws, describing them as “useless.”

Egypt's cabinet tasked on Wednesday the Cairo governorate to demolish the building of the defunct National Democratic Party which ruled under toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt's cabinet approved on Wednesday new drafts of three legislations, prepared to regulate the coming parliamentary elections, and referred them to the State Council for revision.

COPTIC Christians in the Upper Egypt governorate of Qena have urged President

The campaign aiming to enable former International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei to demand constitutional change has abandoned the the idea of obtaining individual proxies

AN Egyptian court will issue a verdict on Wednesday on Orascom Telecom's attempt to block an offer by France Telecom to buy all of Egyptian telecom operator Mobinil's outstanding shares, Reuters reported Saturday.

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the largest tomb yet discovered in the ancient Saqqara necropolis,

KUWAIT CITY (Reuters) - Global Investment House said on Tuesday it was in initial talks with Cairo-based Arab African International Bank (AAIB), to sell a stake in an investment in Egypt, but not as part of its debt settlement plan.

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Deputy General Guide Mohamed Habib, who apparently lost in the last elections of the group's Guidance Bureau, threatened with resigning from the bureau and the Shura Council

President Hosni Mubarak Sunday ordered a limited Cabinet reshuffle that introduced two new ministers to the Government of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.

Egyptian Tax Authority President Ashraf el-Arabi said the new real estate tax law is 100 percent in conformity with the constitution.

A tomb complex has been discovered in the necropolis at the West Bank of Thebes, complete with multiple shafts and chambers, say archaeologists.

Twenty dredgers are currently working in the new Suez Canal, managing to finish underwater dredging operations for 24 million square meters, said the canal’s authority chief.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is scheduled to visit Ethiopia and Kuwait in January, presidency spokesman Alaa Youssef said in separate statements Sunday.

Media presenter Yosry Fouda revealed details published for the first time in his book "In harm's way: from al-Qaeda strongholds to ISIS breeding grounds" about his arrest and detention for three days by the Syrian Intelligence.

An Egyptian attorney who pleaded guilty in connection to the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa told a judge preparing to sentence him that he has always opposed violence and wants to return to his family.