Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum signed Monday an energy exploration deal with Italy’s Eni worth $2 billion, activating an MOU signed during an economic summit in March.

Demolitions began on Sunday at the headquarter of the formerly-ruling, now-dissolved National Democratic Party.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubair arrived in Cairo Sunday for his first visit to Egypt since his appointment late April.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will oversee signing two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) during his visit to Germany early June, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Egypt’s government may not include the cost of its first nuclear power station in the state’s general budget for 2015/2016 FY, an anonymous official told al-Shorouk newspaper Sunday.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab is expected to meet with officials from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait to decide on how the remaining $6 billion of the $12 billion aid pledged to Egypt during the economic conference will be invested, Al Borsa newspaper reported Sunday.

France's foreign minister said on Thursday he would travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories in June, aiming to press ahead in getting an international consensus for a U.N. Security Council resolution that would set parameters for peace talks.

The political party founded by former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq has vowed to sue media outlets that reported Egyptian authorities had advised Shafiq to abstain from political comments.

The first state-owned plant to manufacture energy-saving light bulbs was inaugurated Thursday in Egypt’s Mediterranean governorate of Alexandria, Youm7 reported.

A widely-circulated video has shown police officers dragging and insulting a cafe owner who cried foul during a police campaign to raze illegal businesses on roadsides.

The Alexandria Criminal Court acquitted on Thursday a Homeland Security officer of charges of torturing and killing a suspect in 2011.

A longtime political activist and member of a semi-official rights body has backed calls to suspend death sentences in Egypt for three years as courts continue to hand down mass death sentences to Islamists accused of murder and terrorism.

Egyptian universities’ students will participate in the “Egypt Without Slums” workshop which will last for three years to carry out studies on ending the slums phenomenon in Egypt, said urban development minister Laila Iskander.

President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi will meet with a number of chairpersons of political parties Tuesday to discuss the amendments made to the law regulating Egypt’s long-awaited parliament election, Youm7 reported.

The April 6 Youth Movement has on Wednesday called for demonstrations on June 10 to protest at policies undertaken by the regime in the last two years that led to the deterioration of economic conditions and the suffering of the poor.

The New York Times May 19th editorial “In Egypt, Deplorable death Sentences” starts with yet another outright fabrication.It claims that an Egyptian court has sentenced Mohamed Morsi and others to death. Had the editorial board chosen to apply basic standards of journalism, they would have disclosed that the judge actually set a date in early June to pronounce his sentence. Until that time, any reports as to what that sentence may be amount to nothing more than conjecture. Faithful to what has become its established policy, the Times again goes out of its way to absolve the Moslem Brotherhood of their crimes. At a time when the Brotherhood’s official media outlets are openly instigating their followers to violence and terrorism, this newspaper makes the claim that the Moslem Brotherhood “renounced violence in the 1970s” without providing a shred of evidence to that effect, and brushing aside the ample evidence to the opposite that has surfaced in recent years. In January of this year, the Moslim Brotherhood’s official website posted a statement in Arabic calling for a “long, uncompromising Jihad” against Egypt, while the Brotherhood-controlled TV called for the assassination of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Soon thereafter, terrorist attacks in North Sinai killed more than 30 and injured nearly 100. The Times editorial makes a clumsy attempt at reinterpreting these calls as an “invitation to continue to demonstrate peacefully”. I wonder how they would defend similar Moslem Brotherhood calls to target Westerners.

Hamdeen Sabahy, prominent Nasserite political figure, called Tuesday on boycotting Mobinil, an Egyptian company for mobile services, because it is owned by Orange, which Sabbahi said it deals with the Israeli army.

Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah crossing on Tuesday, for the first time in nearly 80 days, to allow stranded Palestinians to return to the Gaza Strip, witnesses and officials said.

Egypt has picked five banks to arrange fixed income investor meetings from Thursday ahead of a potential dollar-denominated bond issue, a document from lead arrangers showed on Tuesday.

The Electricity Ministry has raised an alert at all its production, transmission and distribution companies ahead of Ramadan, school and university final exams and high temperatures.

Egypt’s Attorney-General Hisham Barakat appealed the acquittal of 17 people of organizing a January illegal protest where activist Shaimaa al-Sabbagh was killed, Youm7 reported Tuesday.