Over 70,000 people have visited “Osiris, Egypt’s Sunken Mysteries” exhibit since it was inaugurated early September at the Arab World Institute in Paris, according to Youm7.

Thursday is the last day set by the Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) for electoral campaigns. Observatory missions, the media and the SEC have reported numerous violations committed as parliamentary candidates advertised for themselves, including prospects that crossed the legal expenditure limits.

Egypt will receive a $3 billion loan from the World Bank in instalments over the next three years to support the state's budget, the finance minister said on the sidelines of an economic conference on Wednesday.

The Justice Ministry’s Illicit Gain Authority has already received 10 requests for financial settlement since it opened the door to returning illegally obtained assets in exchange for dropping legal procedures.

The High Elections Commission has said that approximately 25 million voters were registered for the first stage of elections for the House of Representatives which kick off next Saturday for expatriates and on Sunday for home-based voters.

Russia’ state-owned Rosatom has reached final stages of negotiating the construction of Egypt’s Dabaa nuclear power plant contract, Reuters reported Rosatom vice-president Anton Moskvin Wednesday.

Sixty-two patients who have been suffering from fever and nausea have not received a medical explanation for their cases at Assiut Fevers Hospital. Tests run by the Ministry of Health and Population showed that drinking water in the Dirout area in Assiut meets the safety standards.

Egyptian Justice Minister Ahmed El-Zend has called on defendants in illicit gains cases to seek reconciliation with the government in exchange for paying back illegally acquired funds, according to a statement issued Monday.

The attempt of 20 persons to illegally travel to Libya was foiled in Matrouh, and 31 Egyptians were deported by Italy Monday for illegal immigration, Youm7 reported.

The Socialist Popular Alliance Party has launched the "If you elect them" campaign to warn against voting for the Muslim Brotherhood and the former National Democratic Party members in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

A woman died in the Dashlout village of Assiut from the same mysterious virus that killed two others two weeks ago.

Egypt’s Defence Minister Sedki Sobhi left on Tuesday to the Spanish capital Madrid heading a military delegation for an official visit following an invitation by the Spanish Defence Minister Pedro de Morenés, state owned agency MENA reported.

At an election rally last week in a Nazlt El-Batran, a working-class Giza neighbourhood, Mohsen El-Batran, general coordinator of the National Council of Egyptian Tribes, stood in front of hundreds of residents and spoke about his family's history of providing MPs.

Workers from the Religious Endowments Ministry (MRE) protested outside Abdin Palace on Sunday, demanding permanent contracts and delayed dues dating back to 2011, but security dispersed the group during the night.

Twelve school bus driverss tested positive for hashish and Tramadol in the fourth and fifth days of a campaign by the Education Ministry, Youm7 reported Monday.

A Cairo court ordered the release of Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, stating that they have already compeleted their three-year prison sentence in the case the "presidential palaces" case.

Putin and Salman met in the southern Russian city of Sochi on Sunday where they were also joined by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Energy Minister Alexander Novak. The Russian Formula One Grand Prix was held in Sochi on Sunday.

Liberal Free Egyptians party (FEP) founder Naguib Sawiris said in a TV interview on Saturday that his party was not looking for a majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Journalists at the 11-year-old, privately-owned daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm staged a protest inside their newsroom on Sunday, condemning plans by the board to lay off 60 percent of the workforce.

A Ministry of Antiquities official was charged Sunday with spreading “false news” on probable collapse of Pyramid of Djoser (4,600-year-old Step Pyramid of Sakkara) due to restorations works in 2014, according to a statement from the prosecution.

Egypt expects to receive $1.5 billion in loans from the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) by the end of 2015, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said, as part of efforts to boost foreign currency reserves and bolster the economy.