For the first time since 2007, a United Nations World Food Program (WFP) convoy crossed from Egypt into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, carrying enough food for around 150,000 people for five days.

Ahmed Seif Hamad, an acclaimed human rights lawyer and leftist activist, passed away on Wednesday in a Cairo hospital. He was 63.

Eighteen people were killed after two buses sank into a canal in west Luxor in the early hours of Tuesday.

Egypt's Foreign Ministry asked citizens returning from conflict-torn Libya to avoid crossing through the Ras Jedir checkpoint on the Libyan-Tunisian borders as it could endanger their lives, said a statement issued on Tuesday.

Police arrested the main suspect accused of inciting violence against police and military and who appeared in the video entitled ‘Helwan Battalions’, said Major General Sayyed Shafiq on Tuesday.

An Egyptian minister told a delegation from the US embassy in Cairo that Egypt's protest law is no different than the one currently being applied in the US, where protests in Missouri over an unarmed African-American teenager's death at the hands of a white police officer have drawn international attention.

Dozens of protesters gathered on Tuesday afternoon in front of Cairo's Gezira Club to object the mass poisoning of cats at the upscale sporting club.

Media reports pointed out on Monday that Egypt is currently exerting diplomatic efforts to reach a new ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance factions and Israel.

The Ministry of Investment will pump 64 billion EGP into two stimulus packages for the Egyptian economy to flourish investment and boost Egypt’s revenues in the upcoming period, Minister of Investments Ashraf Salman said.

During ongoing talks between Egypt and Ethiopia in Sudan's capital Khartoum on Monday, Ethiopia's Irrigation Minister Alamayo Tegnoto expressed to his Egyptian counterpart his displeasure with the role the Egyptian media played in exacerbating the Renaissance Dam crisis, Al-Ahram arabic news website reported.

The Supreme Disciplinary Council decided to issue a verdict in the challenge submitted by former prosecutor general Talaat Abdallah on 8 September.

Dozens of street vendors gathered in front of the attorney general’s office to protest against campaigns launched by the government on Sunday to move them into the Torgoman garage in Downtown Cairo, according to a video that was posted on Video7 Monday.

Egypt on Monday is to host a meeting of foreign ministers of Libya and its neighbours, as Islamist militias openly challenge the legitimacy of parliament after seizing Tripoli's airport.

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has said he is ready to go to Ethiopia if the visit would be in Egypt's best interests. He made his remark during a meeting with media figures and journalists Sunday, when asked about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Egypt’s foreign ministry strongly condemned Saturday the execution of an Egyptian citizen by a Libyan militia in Derna, a ministry statement read.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday denied reports that the Egyptian air force carried out air strikes in Libya on Islamist militiamen around the capital's airport.

Factory workers at the city of Mahalla, Egypt's textile industry hub, have decided to cancel protests previously set for Monday to condemn losses sustained due to electricity outages.

Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) criticised on Friday the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on the dispersal of Rabaa and Nahda sit-ins, describing it as "low in professionalism" and "deliberately misleading".

Police conscripts of the Egyptian Central Security Forces (CSF) went on strike Friday in Ismailia, demanding better treatment and working conditions, according to state-run Al-Ahram.

Newly appointed British ambassador to Egypt, John Casson, presented his credentials to Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Saturday, expressing the importance of a “successful Egypt”.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry critcized Thursday the killing of American journalist James Folly by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, considering it a brutal incident that violates the teachings of Islam and human ethics.