The International Monetary Fund confirmed on Tuesday that Egypt has asked it for financial support program and said an IMF staff mission will visit Cairo for about two weeks starting July 30.

The wealthiest 10 percent of citizens in Egypt are responsible for 25 percent of the total expenditure of Egyptians, while the poorest 10 percent are responsible for only 4 percent of the total expenditure, reflecting the huge gap in living standards, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS).

Independent Egyptian MP Mostafa Bakri said that ‎he and 336 MPs have called on parliament ‎to approve a draft resolution in favour of ‎recognising the death of 1.5 ‎million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman state in 1915 as a ‎‎"genocide." ‎

Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met earlier Tuesday with a five-member British parliamentary delegation currently visiting the country, discussing the latest developments in Egyptian-British bilateral relations, the Egyptian presidency announced.

Egypt said on Tuesday it was close to agreeing a lending programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ease its funding gap and was seeking to secure $7 billion annually in financing over a three-year period.

Egypt's Illicit Gains Authority referred on Tuesday former minister of tourism Zuhair Garana and his family to court on charges of illicit gains.

Egypt’s former Foreign Minister rebuked the terrorist incident that targeted a French Church on Tuesday, describing it as a turning point in the activities adopted by the terrorist groups, Youm7 reported.

Egypt is keen on promoting cooperation with Pakistan and benefitting from that country’s military experience in fighting terrorism, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told Pakistan’s army chief of staff General Raheel Sharif during his official two day visit to Cairo.

Russian flight safety experts may visit Egypt in September to inspect airport security in the country's airports, Russian transport minister Maksim Sokolov said Monday.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) kept the pound stable at 8.78 per dollar at its weekly foreign currency auction on Tuesday, the state-owned MENA reported.

Tonight at the El-Manestirly Palace overlooking the El-Roda Nile Corniche, UNESCO will celebrate the Egyptian winner of "The Photo and Story" contest held in 2015 as part of the global #Unite4Heritage campaign.

Egypt’s Grand Mufti has said while homosexuality is not accepted in Islam, gay people are not second-class humans.

The United Nations Security Council failed on Saturday to condemn the violence and unrest in Turkey after Egypt objected to a statement that called on all parties to "respect the democratically elected government of Turkey," diplomats said.

The Egyptian parliament voted on Monday in favor of approving a new civil service law and will be referred to the State Council to be revised in constitutional and legislative terms, parliament speaker Ali Abdel-Al said.

With over 40 events spanning more than six weeks, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's International Summer Festival will bring Egyptian, regional and international performers to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

Egypt will celebrate Eid Al-Adha, the second of two major religious holidays celebrated by Muslims around the world after Eid Al-Fitr, on 11 September, Egypt’s Astronomical and Geophysics Institute said on Tuesday.

Sudan's President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir said there is no discord between his country and Egypt regarding their respective shares of Nile water and that the relationship between the two countries is "excellent."

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tariq Al-Mulla signed Tuesday two new agreements for oil and gas exploration in Upper Egypt’s El Baraka field of Aswan, Youm7 reported the Ministry’s statement.

Egyptian parliamentarians are signing a draft law criminalizes Armenian Genocide during the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. The Signature came in light of Egypt’s actions against Turkey as two countries have strained relations since the ouster of former President Morsi, Turkey’s ally.

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said during an hour of questions in the Knesset that Egypt is the most important and serious ally we have in the Middle East and among Arab states.

Egypt's Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy and the country's public prosecutor Nabil Sadek flew to Moscow on Tuesday to provide Russian officials with the latest findings on Cairo's investigation into the crash of a Russian airliner in Sinai last October.