Gulf Arab governments are encouraging - and in some cases pressuring - hundreds of companies to attend an international investment summit in Egypt this week, in a move that may help the firms become top players in a rebounding Egyptian economy.

Egypt may receive 3 Rafale fighter jets from France by this summer for the inauguration ceremony of the new Suez Canal in August 2015, French newspaper Le Figaro reported Wednesday.

His Highness the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and his accompanying delegation are scheduled to leave on Friday for Egypt to take part in Egypt's Economic Development Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, convening from March 13th to 15th, according to the Kuwait News Agency, KUNA.

In a slum inhabited by Cairo’s legions of informal garbage collectors, children in tattered sandals walk down muddy, trash-strewn alleys to get to Mama Maggie’s community center, where their feet are washed, their wounds are dressed and they are encouraged to learn and play.

The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) announced Wednesday that children were most abused in Egypt at schools and on the street in February.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi held a meeting with high caliber security officials Thursday to discuss security plans for the Economic Summit in Sharm El-Shiekh, according to a presidential statement.

Prosecutors referred a teacher to criminal court on Wednesday, after he was investigated for accusations of beating a pupil leading to the child's death.

The total number of Egyptians who have returned from Libya in flights reached 10,452 on Wednesday, a source at the Aviation Ministry said.

An Egyptian court sentenced the four people accused of involvement in the killing of a domesticated dog to three years of prison with labour on Wednesday.

Egypt's Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar said confronting "terrorist groups" has shifted from being a security confrontation to an "existential war," in a Wednesday speech.

Up to 20 Swiss companies will attend the Egypt Economic Development Conference, Swiss Ambassador to Egypt Markus Leitner told Youm7 Tuesday via email.

The Egyptian government has approved a decision to unify corporate income taxes at 22.5 percent, Finance Minister Hany Qadry Dimian said Tuesday.

United States Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Egypt later this week to attend Egypt's major economic conference, where he will also meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

A total of 15 have been arrested for their alleged participation in manufacturing explosives seized in Gharbia, in the Nile Delta, Monday, Youm7 reported.

A fire has destroyed three cars in the Torgoman parking lot in downtown Cairo, an eyewitness told Al-Ahram newspaper

Two banks were attacked by masked assailants in Egypt's second city of Alexandria on Monday.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) sent a letter to President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, requesting a meeting with him to discuss a “more open press climate,” according to CPJ statement Monday.

The announcement of the name of the international consultancy firm which will conduct studies on the effects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is delayed, state news agency MENA reported.

Hardcore supporters of the Zamalek Sports Club protested at a number of universities on Monday, condemning the deaths of 19 colleagues outside a Cairo football stadium earlier in February.

The World Bank Group (WBG) will participate at Egypt’s Economic Development Conference with a high level delegation, Poonam Gupta, acting country director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti, told Ahram Online on Sunday.

"We are in a great battle for survival. A single institution cannot work on its own," President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a video conference message directed to Egyptians during the inauguration of the Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi Mosque in the Fifth Settlement Monday.