Egypt and the US discussed on Thursday means of fostering cooperation and exchanging expertise in several agricultural fields especially strategic crops including rice and cotton.

Egypt offered Friday its condolences for Emirati and Bahraini peoples over the killing of least 50 soldiers in Yemen.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi left Jakarta Saturday heading to Egypt after an Asian tour that included Singapore, China and Indonesia.

Egypt's finance ministry will issue lottery prizes in order to motivate businesses to issue receipts and citizens to demand them, to promote popular observation of the soon-to-be imposed value-added tax.

Sohag Criminal Court sentenced 26 accused of burning St. George Church in Suhag to life imprisonment, 67 defendants to 15 years in prison and 26 defendants were sentenced to 10 years.

Copts in Qena celebrated yesterday the feast of Anba Takla in the presence of Abba Takla, Bishop of Dishna, and priests of the diocese.

Security forces in Cairo managed to arrest the most dangerous element accused of kidnapping the Copts in Nag Hamadi.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will start a tour of Asia on Sunday, visiting Singapore, China and Indonesia, the presidency said in a statement on Saturday.

Sixteen people, led by a former officer who had been fired, were referred Saturday by the prosecution to a “terrorism-specialized” court after they “were proven to have been in touch” with the Islamic State group (IS,) Youm7 reported.

Peter Greste in absentia and Mohamed Fahmy were sentenced to 3 years in prison, while their Egyptian colleague Baher Mohamed was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison Saturday morning for “reporting false news.”

Copts of Rahmaniyah village have gathered in the closed church of St. Mary that was closed down by police 30 years ago.

Port Said Criminal Court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and top leaders Safwat Hegazi and Mohamed El-Beltagi to life in imprisonment Saturday over the storming of a police station in Port said in August 2013.

Minister of Transitional Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ibrahim Henedi said that the Constitution obligates the House of Representatives to issue some laws in its first session such as the laws regulating the building and renovation of churches and transitional justice .

The High Elections Committee (HEC) said in a statement it has approved requests submitted by 87 local and international non-governmental organizations to monitor Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary elections, Youm7 reported Friday.

Independent labor unions are preparing for massive protests on September 12, demanding the Civil Service law be abandoned after the government declared in March that reforms need to be made among the six million strong civilian workforce.

Shortly, with the prayers of the His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St Mark, His Grace Bishop Daniel El Antouny, the head of the Monastery of St Shenouda The Archimandrite in Sydney/NSW will head the 20th year anniversary celebration since the inauguration, by his Holiness Pope Shenouda III, God bless his soul. The Monastery passed into 3 stages to reach its current flourishing status of a well established Monastery recognized by The Holy Synod. The idea came in 1990 from Dr. Medhat Guirgis – The Secretary of the NSW State Board of The Coptic Orthodox Church at the time and his wife Dr. Sara Fuirgis – to give a present from the son and daughter to their Father H H Pope Shenouda III. H H devoted his life to re-build the old un-occupied monasteries and promote monasticism in the Coptic Orthodox Church. This would provide the NSW Diocese with one of the pillars of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The hard work to establish the Monastery was completed with the prayers and blessings of H H Pope Shenouda by the Very Reverend Fr Tadros Elbakhoumi who was experienced in the construction of monasteries after successfully re-building the ancient St Bakhomious Monastery in Edfo in the 1970’s.

Egypt's foreign ministry strongly condemned on Saturday a report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) which criticises governmental "inaction" following the violent 2013 dispersal of the Islamist Rabaa sit-in.

Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate is to send the final version of the unified draft law on regulating press and media to the Prime Ministry Sunday, said Syndicate’s member Alaa Thabet Thursday.

Mohamed Salmawy, head of the Arab Writers Union, has requested the Interior Minister facilitate the entry of Arab writers and intellectuals who have completed formalities and received visas from Egyptian embassies abroad.

Russia has handed Egypt a Molniya missile ship that participated in the inauguration of the "New Suez Canal" earlier this month, the Egyptian armed forces announced on Saturday.

Egypt will open the Rafah Border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Monday for three days in both directions, state-owned news agency MENA reported on Saturday.