The price of the US dollar has fallen against the Egyptian pound on the black market after the official announcement of negotiations between Egypt and the IMF regarding a US$12 billion loan package.

Egypt has expressed reservations on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) draft resolution to list the Gulen movement as a terrorist organisation, an official in the Islamic organisation said.

Health Minister Ahmed Emad Eddin has announced the end of government waiting lists for patients seeking the latest drug treatment for hepatitis-C.

EgyptAir has announced "positive" results in a recent inspection of key sites at Cairo International Airport by the Star Alliance group

Egypt's minister of petroleum and mineral resources has signed two agreements for oil and gas exploration in upper Egypt with U.S. company IPR and Cyprus subsidiary Mediterra, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

Egypt’s official statistics agency said on Tuesday that the Egyptian poverty line stands at an income of LE5,787.9 annually and LE482 monthly, 48 per cent higher than in 2012/2013.

Egyptian authorities are ready to provide Moscow with the latest information on the progress of Cairo's probe into the crash of a Russian passenger jet over Sinai last October, a Russian spokesman said Wednesday.

There is no evidence that the recent death of an Egyptian national in Germany was a result of a criminal act, the German Embassy in Cairo said on Wednesday.

An army conscript was killed in North Sinai governorate on Wednesday in a bombing while another three conscripts were injured, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Egypt says it has not received any request for political asylum by Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of masterminding a failed coup attempt on 15 July.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Wednesday that a loan deal Egypt may secure with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will help boost international confidence in the country's flagging economy,

Egypt's official statistics agency says the bulk of Egyptians' spending on ‎education goes to private tutoring, according to data published Tuesday.

Egypt's stock market rose sharply early on Wednesday in response to news that Cairo was near agreeing an International Monetary Fund lending programme.

Security forces were deployed in Giza in the early hours of Wednesday morning to disperse crowds accusing police of killing a man and throwing his body into the River Nile.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will attend the official reopening ceremony for Terminal Building 2 (TB2) at Cairo International Airport, which has been renovated by the Civil Aviation Ministry.

The Geographic Information System (GIS) at the Ministry of Antiquities has created an archaeological map locating all the archaeological sites and museums over Egypt.

Three civilians were killed on Wednesday in a roadside bomb in North Sinai, state news agency MENA reported.

Egypt's foreign ministry said it is carrying out an inquiry on the death of an Egyptian national while in custody in Germany and has demanded a swift probe by German authorities into the incident.

Libya’s UN-backed prime minister-designate Fayez al-Sarraj arrived in Cairo Wednesday morning in an official visit during which he will meet with Egyptian officials, Youm7 reported.

Security forces have reportedly killed 15 militants and injured another 9 in an army raid in North Sinai, security source told Youm7 on Wednesday.

President AbdelFatah al Sisi will meet with ministerial economic group on Thursday to review latest economic conditions after the Egyptian pound weakened on the parallel market reaching over 13 EGP against the dollar on the black market.