Power cuts hit many parts of Egypt on Thursday, causing blackouts and halting some public transport in the Arab world's most populous country.

Egypt's oldest liberal party, Al-Wafd, will attempt to garner a majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections, party president Al-Sayed Al-Badawi has said in interview with Al-Ahram daily newspaper.

An underground car park will open in Cairo's Tahrir Square in early October, officials have said. The opening will coincide with 6 October War celebrations, Cairo governor Galal Mostafa Said told Al-Ahram daily newspaper.

Students held a protest at Cairo University on Wednesday against a recent decision to ban politically-linked groups on campus.

Religious authorities in Egypt have branded an X Factor-style television show for belly dancers "obscene" and called for it to be taken off air.

A police report filed against a private hospital and a doctor over medical negligence in the death of an 8-month-old girl has brought to light a disturbing trend of medical malpractice in some private hospitals.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued Tuesday a decree approving the Suez Canal Certificates Law to raise the needed finance for the Suez Canal expansion, state-owned MENA reported.

“We don’t want anyone to suffer; we fully appreciate the development needs of our Ethiopian friends and we are genuinely hoping that they – for their turn – do appreciate our concern over water resources; we could work out a win-win formula if there is serious political will,” argued Mohamed Idris, Egypt’s ambassador to Ethiopia.

An Egyptian court sentenced Hosni Mubarak-era mogul Hussein Salem and his son and daughter in absentia to 10 years in jail for squandering public funds and illegally selling electricity.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told a US Congress delegation on Tuesday that events in the region should compel leading countries to take quick measures to support "moderate" regional states in the face of terrorism, Egypt's presidential spokesman said in a statement.

The 6 April Movement demanded security forces to release 13 of its members who were arrested on their way to the residence of the late Ahmed al-Masry, another member of the group, to commemorate the first anniversary of his death.

An Egyptian court sentenced in absentia on Tuesday fugitive businessman Hussein Salem and his two sons to 10 years in prison on charges of intentional damage to their work and selling electricity to non-public authority, which violates the law.

Nine people were killed on Tuesday as families visiting their newly-enrolled relatives at a military institute in Sharqiya overcrowded to access the institute.

Cairo University will not allow any politically affiliated student groups on campus in the new academic year, university head Gaber Nassar said on Sunday.

Egypt's Ministry of Solidarity extended on Sunday a deadline for NGOs to register their existence with the ministry or else face legal investigation, a statement by the National Human Rights Council read.

Suez Canal Authority Chief Mohab Mamish said the new Suez Canal Authority is set to open on 5 August.

The Ministry of Interior threatened 34 detainees on Sunday night with tear gas if they insisted on continuing the hunger strike they had begun the same day, according to Freedom for the Brave, an initiative that provides support for detainees.

Hurghada hospital received on Monday three ambulances coming from Ras Ghareb hospital carrying six people who were badly wounded in a bus accident.

The United Arab Emirates will provide Egypt with petroleum products worth $8.7 billion over a year starting in September, an Egyptian official told Reuters on Sunday. Egypt has struggled to curb its swelling budget deficit and meet its soaring energy demands, which have resulted in daily electricity cuts around the country of 86 million people.

The Administrative Court said on Sunday it lacks the proper jurisdiction to rule over banning leaders of the National Democratic Party of former President Hosni Mubarak to run for parliamentary elections.

Eighty days have passed since former army general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been elected as Egypt's president, and already 82 percent of Egyptians are happy with his performance, according to a Baseera poll.