The presidency has pardoned 424 prisoners on Friday to mark Eid Al-Fitr, state news agency MENA reported.

A total of 41,042 Egyptian and foreign tourists visited the Giza Pyramids during the three days of Eid holidays, head of the Cairo and Giza Central Administration for Antiquities Kamal Wahid told MENA on Sunday.

The level of verbal harassment in Downtown Cairo on Saturday rose to "unprecedented levels", while there were no incidents of mob harassment, the anti-sexual harassment group Shoft Taharosh (I Saw Harassment) said on Sunday.

Unleashing the hidden side of the refugees’ conditions in Egypt, the Platform is a one-issue magazine produced as a graduation project of three Egyptian students at The Faculty of Mass Communication of October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA.)

From almost complete support to charges of failure and warnings of the anger of the poor ranged the assessments of journalists and politicians of the performance of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a year after his inauguration.

Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab will arrive in Equatorial Guinea Monday to stay for two days then will head to Italy from July 22-24, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Egypt completed dredging for the new shipping route in the Suez Canal, which will be inaugurated on August 6th, according to a report from the armed forces published by Aswat Masriya on Thursday.

Egypt’s Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar removed on Thursday Cairo's security chief, Maj. Gen. Ossama Bedeir.

A total of 63, 389 Egyptians have arrived at the Sallum border crossing from the war-torn Libya since the beheading of 20 Egyptian Copts by Islamic State (IS) militants in February, Youm7 reported Thursday.

Egypt has banned the import of laser pens due to their harmful effects, Industry and International Trade Minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour announced on Thursday.

Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghafar has sacked the chief of Cairo security directorate Osama Bedeir, Youm7 reported Thursday.

International credit agency, Moody's, upgraded on Wednesday its outlook for the Egyptian banking system to stable from negative on the back of government recent commitment to fiscal reforms and improving macroeconomic indicators.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has received a letter from the government of Greece, objecting to the Egyptian government's decision to ban the export of cotton, according to a senior figure in the government, noting that the decision may compel the Greek government to ban Egyptian imports in return.

A policeman acknowledged he shot lawyer Mohamed el-Gamal after he heard people screaming “catch this defendant” in a Cairo Court Saturday.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has said the constitution is great but more time is needed for its goals to be achieved, state news agency MENA reported.

Egypt's draft anti-terrorism law "must be scrapped immediately or fundamentally revised," Amnesty International said on Wednesday, describing the proposed law as "draconian".

Egypt's Premier, Ibrahim Mahlab, issued a decision on Tuesday granting the ministries and government sectors four days for the holiday, which will take place from Friday, 17 July until Monday, 20 July.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has renewed his call for revolutionizing the understanding of Islam to counter terrorist and extremist thought, urging scholars, specifically al-Azhar, to work to that end.

The number of Arab tourists visiting Egypt increased by 23 percent in May 2015 compared to the same month last year, Chairman of Tourism Promotion Authority (TPA) Sami Mahmoud told The Cairo Post Tuesday.

The general budget’s report for the current fiscal year for the National Authority for Radio and Television Union Maspero revealed estimated losses of about 4.14 billion EGP ($528.9 million,) Youm7 reported Tuesday.

The Egyptian Ministry of Housing has received 5 offers from Egyptian and Arab companies for the development of the new administrative capital, and the project’s master plan will be announced soon, according to Housing Minister, Moustafa Madbouly.