An international committee of experts investigating the downing of a Russian passenger plane in Sinai in October 2015 has confirmed that a bomb exploded on the plane, saying the device was planted in the rear section of the fuselage, Russia Today reported on Tuesday.

Egypt will build a memorial for Mexican tourists mistakenly killed in a military strike last year while a travel association will compensate their families and survivors, Mexico's government said Tuesday.

Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr will open The Euromoney Egypt Conference 2016, due to be held on Sept. 19 and 20, Youm7 reported a statement from the ministry Tuesday.

Russia’s food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Tuesday it could impose a temporary ban on imports of “products of high phytosanitary risk” from Egypt.

The National Council for Women has called for the elimination of sexual harassment from Egyptian streets during the next Eid al-Fitr.

Nine Nile boat skippers were arrested on Monday, the first day of the Eid Al-Adha festival, after they failed drug tests, a statement by the Ministry of Social Solidarity read.

A man suspected of killing a police sergeant in Qaliubiya was killed in an exchange of fire with police in Alexandria on Monday.

The House of Representatives will study a proposal to join the dwarfs to the bracket of the people with special needs as away to avoid marginalizing them, Youm7 reported Parliament’s Social Solidarity Committee member Hassan Abu el-Wafa Monday evening.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will head to New York next week to participate in the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Youm7 reported.

Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mustafa Amin has approved a request from the Swiss Institute in Cairo to complete the institute mission’s works in old Aswan, in the period between October 17, 2016 and September 30, 2017.

Despite the tremendous drop in occupancy rates, revenues and tourist arrivals in the past few months, hotels across Egypt saw major rate increases during the Eid vacation.

The Interior Ministry has announced the release of 759 prisoners on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, continuing a tradition of pardoning and releasing prisoners on national holidays and religious feasts.

Twenty-eight Egyptians have died while on pilgrimage on Saudi Arabia during Eid al-Adha, according to Major General Sayed Maher, deputy interior minister for administrative affairs and head of the Egyptian pilgrims mission.

The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) has revealed a decline in the volume of imports from the Nile Basin countries to Egypt in May.

A high-ranking governmental official said that by the receipt of the first tranche of the $3 billion loan from the World Bank, Egypt’s foreign reserves rose to $17.5 billion.

A total of 10,000 Egyptian and foreign tourists visited Giza Pyramids on the first day of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice,) Arcehological Ashraf Mohey told Youm7.

A number of parliamentarians have praised President Sisi’s decision to pardon 700 prisoners on occasion of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) as a kind gest.

Member of Parliament May Mahmoud said that a committee concerned with African affairs will discuss supporting Egypt’s tourism with representatives from 54 African states.

Member of Parliament Mohamed Saad has warned of a repeated flooding crisis in Delta’s Beheira governorate similar to that occurred last year, Youm7 reported.

A North Cairo court ordered late Sunday the release of the director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms Ahmed Abdallah and four others for the second time.

The number of Egyptian pilgrims who died of natural causes while performing the hajj in Saudi Arabia this year climbed to 22 on Sunday night, Egyptian state news agency MENA reported.