A ferryboat sunk in the Nile river in Cairo's twin city Giza on Wednesday leaving 15 passengers dead, while six injured passengers were rescued, the Interior Ministry said.

Egypt's prosecution announced on Wednesday that it collected "over 12 billion" Egyptian pounds (more than $1.5 billion) in tax evasion cases and retrieved real estate and hundreds of fedans of state land.

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia started a new round of talks on Wednesday over the latter’s Grand Renaissance Dam project, which Egypt fears will affect its share of the Nile's water.

An Egyptian court has sentenced Ahmed Nazif, a former prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, to five years in jail on graft charges in a retrial, judicial sources said on Wednesday.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi attended the graduation ceremony of new batches of Naval and Air Force Academies cadets in Alexandria Wednesday.

Egypt's trade deficit stood at 24.6 billion Egyptian pounds in April, rising by 52.7 percent from the 16.11 billion pounds it recorded during the same month last year, the state's official statistics agency reported on Tuesday.

“Probably in Novemner, we will have a parliament to complete the roadmap,” said Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb on Wednesday, at a meeting with automotive industry investors in Turin, Italy.

Perpetrators of sexual harassment in 340 incidents, mostly verbal, have been released because no girls arrived to sign police reports, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

Tensions between Cairo and Ankara have reached unprecedented levels since the ouster of former Egyptian president and Turkey ally Mohamed Morsi in 2013, an Israeli think-tank has said.

The new Suez Canal project will start its trial operation process on Saturday, 11 days before the official inauguration on 6 August, Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Investment Minister Ashraf Salman said that Egypt is targeting a GDP growth rate of 4.5 –4.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015/16, according to daily business Al-Borsa newspaper.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said Egypt is making “advancements in politics, economy and security” during a meeting on Monday with Egyptian expats in Equatorial Guinea.

The new Suez Canal shipping-route project will be completed before Saturday, according to Mohab Mamesh, head of the Canal Authority.

A campaign against sexual harassment has recorded 223 cases of sexual harassment in Cairo during the three days of the holy Islamic Eid al-Fitr from Friday to Sunday.

France delivered the first three Rafale fighters to Egypt Monday, among the 24 Rafale air jets deal signed in February, Youm7 reported.

Italian oil and gas company Eni has discovered natural gas in Egypt’s Nile Delta, with initial estimates suggesting a quantity of 15 billion cubic meters of gas and condensate, Egypt’s Petroleum Ministry said on Monday.

The presidency has pardoned 424 prisoners on Friday to mark Eid Al-Fitr, state news agency MENA reported.

A total of 41,042 Egyptian and foreign tourists visited the Giza Pyramids during the three days of Eid holidays, head of the Cairo and Giza Central Administration for Antiquities Kamal Wahid told MENA on Sunday.

The level of verbal harassment in Downtown Cairo on Saturday rose to "unprecedented levels", while there were no incidents of mob harassment, the anti-sexual harassment group Shoft Taharosh (I Saw Harassment) said on Sunday.

Unleashing the hidden side of the refugees’ conditions in Egypt, the Platform is a one-issue magazine produced as a graduation project of three Egyptian students at The Faculty of Mass Communication of October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA.)

From almost complete support to charges of failure and warnings of the anger of the poor ranged the assessments of journalists and politicians of the performance of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a year after his inauguration.