Egypt is attempting to verify the authenticity of media reports on the kidnapping or arrest of Egyptians in Libya, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Friday.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with China's Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Ming on Tuesday, who arrived in Cairo to set up arrangements for the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping from January 20-22.

The Cairo Court of Cassation will consider Saturday the appeal presented by lawyer of former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons against jail sentences handed to them earlier in a case publicly known as “presidential palaces,” Youm7 reported.

Egypt received Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel Malek al-Mekhlafi Friday morning to meet with officials to discuss the current developments in Yemen.

Amxican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Claudia Ruiz Massieu said in a Wednesday press briefing that the killing of eight tourists in Egypt last September was caused by an infringement committed by the company that organised their journey, Mexico City newspaper El-Universal reported.

A Cairo court renewed for 45 days on Wednesday the detention of high school student Mahmoud Mohamed Hussien, the first detention for Hussien in 2016 without being referred to trial.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with China's Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Ming on Tuesday, who arrived in Cairo to set up arrangements for the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping from January 20-22.

The 2013 Protest Law will be be submitted to the new parliament without amendments, announced Minister of Legal Affairs and the House of Representatives Magdy Al-Agaty stated Tuesday.

Some 5,520 tourists of different nationalities arrived in Cairo International Airport during the past 24 hours, a security source at the airport told Youm7.

The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) warned against Egypt's reliance on coal as a source of energy, saying this will have harmful health effects despite the government's pledge to commit to the implementation of European standards.

The Cairo Appeals Court accepted on Monday the recusation request submitted by the defence team in the case known as "Awsim Cell", presided over by Judge Nagy Shehata.

A Giza misdemeanor court adjourned Sunday the trial of journalist Ibrahim Eissa and owner of al-Qahera wal Nas channel Tareq Nour to January 23 over charges of defaming a former parliamentary candidate in Assiut governorate.

Egypt will inaugurate the Wadi El Hitan Fossil and Climate Change Museum at Wadi El Hitan area in Fayoum governorate, 80 kilometer south to Cairo, on Jan. 15, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced Tuesday.

Egypt will sign an agreement with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday allowing it to receive $3 billion worth of Saudi loans and grants, Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr told Bloomberg.

The Ministry of Justice appointed Hisham Abdul Hamid as the new director of the Forensic Medicine Authority (FMA), after the retirement of former head Mahmoud Ahmed.

Tax returns saw a 25.2 percent increase between July and October 2015, according to a monthly report by the Finance Ministry, which praised the surge as a result of “tax reforms” and “economic improvements” with the beginning of the current fiscal year.

Local residents of a village in Delta’s Sharqia blamed jinn Saturday for “burning their houses several times since two months,” Youm7 reported.

The Kafr el-Sheikh prosecution ordered Sunday the detention of two officials responsible for maritime and boat licenses for four days pending investigation into the ferryboat accident that claimed the lives of 15 individuals.

Egypt will receive the first passenger rail cars from Russia by July 2016, as part of a deal to supply Cairo with 700 cars, Transport Minister Saad el-Geoushy told Youm7 Monday.

Contracts with the two French firms carrying out studies on the impact of Ethiopia's under construction Grand Renaissance Dam on downstream countries' water shares will be signed in early February in Khartoum, a spokesperson for Egypt's foreign ministry said on Sunday.

A majority parliamentary bloc in support of Egypt President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has announced this week that MP and constitutional law professor Ali Abdel-Al will likely be elected as the speaker of Egypt’s new parliament.