Investigators from Egypt's National Security Agency are stepping up efforts to identify the administrators of a Facebook page called “We are all Saleh Selim” that has been accused of slandering Al-Ahly Sporting Club, while harshly criticising the police, the military and the judiciary.

Three Suez Canal workers were injured on Sunday night when two launches for the canal's authority capsized in the waterway. The workers have been transferred to hospital for treatment.

Egypt's House of Representatives gave its initial approval for a bill to introduce Value-Added Tax (VAT) during preliminary discussions in parliament on Sunday, with a number of sources claiming the a rate of 13 percent was agreed on.

Reaching a just, comprehensive settlement on the Palestinian issue "would create a new reality in the region and contribute to curbing turbulence and instability in Middle East," Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Sunday during talks with officials from the White House's National Security Council in Cairo. according to his office.

Representatives from Saudi Telecom and Lebara KSA are in Egypt this week to discuss the possibility of obtaining a fourth-generation mobile phone licence, an official from Egypt's telecommunications ministry said on Monday.

U.S. wheat fell for a sixth consecutive session and hovered near a three-week low on Monday, as ample global stocks and a regulatory clamp-down from the world's largest buyer of the grain dragged on prices.

Microbus drivers have started a strike in the Cairo suburb of Maadi after a driver was killed by a lower-ranking policeman in the late hours of Sunday.

More than 50 private schools have received warning from Education Minister al-Helaly al-Sherbiny over violations, he told reporters Sunday. A total of 27 international schools in Egypt were previously warned by the Education Ministry against charging extra fees, violating their own internal statutes, accepting extra students and not applying for work permits for foreign staff.

Egypt's administrative prosecution has referred television presenter Azza al-Hennawy to a disciplinary court for insulting the president and expressing personal viewpoints on her talk show, aired on a state-owned channel called Al-Qahira (Cairo).

Egypt's debts to foreign oil companies reached $3.4 billion by the end of June, a Sunday petroleum ministry statement read.