Tuesday’s decision by Egypt's agriculture ministry to temporarily ban cotton imports, it says to protect domestic cotton production, is stirring fears among experts that the country's own textile industry may end up paying the price.

There is “surplus” in electricity production in Egypt due to periodical maintenance of existing power plants, increasing their efficiency, Minister of Electricity Mohamed Shaker said in a Monday meeting with President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, according to a presidential statement.

Egypt has placed a temporary ban on cotton imports to protect its homegrown product, according to a statement from the agriculture ministry on Tuesday.

Seventeen NGOs have released a joint statement condemning the anti-terrorism law, saying it reimposes the restrictions that journalists have been struggling to remove throughout history.

Egypt has repaid a $670 million six-month premium on the foreign debt owed to the Paris Club last Wednesday, Reuters quoted central bank governor, Hisham Ramez Tuesday.

The delegation of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) was received by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi later that day to discuss terrorism as well as the Palestinian cause.

Libyan gunmen kidnapped an Egyptian national and demanded ransom from his wife on Monday, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported.

Egyptian central bank governor Hisham Ramez has sought to calm local market nerves following a surprise 2.5 percent weakening of the Egyptian pound against the U.S. dollar over recent days.

A new anti-terrorism law in Egypt will make publishing news that contradicts the official version of events in terrorism-related cases a crime punishable by prison sentences, a setback for the freedom of the press, according to the local journalists union.

Mohamed Abul Azm finished irrigating his rice field with a pump placed on the bank of a four-meter canal in Abis village, Alexandria. But there was a bad smell coming out of the water. “Because this is sewage,” he said “The sewage station has been dumping in the canal for 15 years.”

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met Monday a delegation of the American-Jewish Committee, headed by Stanley Bergman, to discuss Egyptian-US relations.

A huge bust of Queen Nefertiti has been removed from the entrance to a city in Upper Egypt after locals compared it to Frankenstein.

The press syndicate has said a new anti-terror law Egypt is set to pass will trample on press freedoms and enable authorities to censor media.

Egypt’s naval forces have rescued 37 people on board of a sinking cargo ship near Safaga Port, on the coast of the Red Sea, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Egypt’s pound hit a new official low of 7.73 per dollar at a central bank auction on Sunday, down from 7.63 per dollar on Thursday’s sale, the second depreciation since February.

The Supreme Judicial Council has tasked Ali Omran, the most senior assistant general prosecutor, to temporarily become General prosecutor, succeeding the late Hesham Barakat who was assassinated last week.

Egypt has lifted a 13-year-old ban on excavation permits issued to foreign archeology missions working in Upper Egypt, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Mostafa Amin was quoted by Youm7 Friday.

Acting Prosecutor-General Ali Omran has issued a media gag order on investigations into the assassination of his predecessor Hisham Barakat.

Egypt’s pound weakened to 7.63 per dollar at a central bank auction on Thursday, down from 7.53 per dollar on Monday’s sale, the first depreciation since February.

Egypt's gross domestic product growth dropped to 3 percent during the third quarter of the fiscal year 2014/2015, the Planning Ministry announced on Thursday.

Egypt's cabinet has approved a new draft budget for the 2015/16 fiscal year to slash the projected deficit to 8.9 percent of GDP, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday.