The National Salvation Front will resolve its final position on the upcoming parliamentary elections in a few hours, Amr Moussa, a leading figure in the opposition coalition, said Sunday.

John Kerry, the newly-appointed US secretary of state, is scheduled to visit Cairo on 2 March as part of a wider tour of Europe and the Middle East, official Egyptian news agency MENA reported on Sunday.

The Cabinet’s spokesperson said “rumors” spread in the media and on social networking sites about a civil disobedience campaign are not true, contending that certain people are trying to force government employees to take to the streets, or else they will harm them.

Egypt’s tourism minister, Hisham Zaazou, will head to the Iranian capital Tehran Sunday to discuss enhancing touristic exchanges between the two countries.

The administrator of a website close to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday denied "in no uncertain terms" a statement attributed to his website suggesting that President Mohamed Morsi had upbraided Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi following a statement made by the latter and his top aides suggesting the military's readiness to intervene in Egypt's chaotic political scene in case of a national "emergency."

The presidency has responded to public outrage concerning the timing of the first phase of parliamentary elections. President Mohamed Morsi announced that a new schedule for the first phase was under serious consideration while attending the Egyptian Forum on Foreign Policy on Saturday.

Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei called Saturday for a boycott of parliamentary elections, drawing immediate criticism from some within his movement who said it was a hasty decision.

Fourteen rights group said on Saturday that having two years pass by without presenting the ones responsible for killing protesters on the Friday of rage in 2011

Egyptian police said Saturday they have arrested four students who filmed themselves publicly dancing in their underwear, as more people around the world emulate a viral dance craze called the "Harlem Shake."

Calls from Egypt's opposition to boycott this year's parliamentary elections is considered to be "political bankruptcy" as the voter bloc that will cast ballot for opposition groups is negligible, stated Mohamed Zidan

Outside the safe house, the mob was pounding on the door. Ten girls were inside, cowering in fear. One had passed out and lay motionless on the floor.

A group of political and revolutionary political parties and movements are calling for demonstrations on Friday dubbed “the trial of the regime.”

Ayman Nour, founder of the liberal Ghad El-Thawra party, has said that he is engaged in dialogue with President Morsi and is prepared to take up a leadership position if invited to do so by the president.

Armed Forces spokesperson Ahmed Mohamed Ali said legal action has been taken against the driver of an army vehicle that bore a sticker with a religious slogan.

Egypt’s economic growth rate in the second quarter of the 2012/13 fiscal year stood at 2.2 percent, representing a 15.3 percent decrease on the previous quarter, the Egyptian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation declared in a Thursday statement.

Port Said Prison was a scene of chaos. Blood was splattered on the floor. Bullets were flying and fumes from Molotov cocktails filled the air.

Members of the Shura Council accused the Supreme Constitutional Court on Tuesday of undermining lawmakers following its rejection of several elections law articles governing parliamentary polls.

The prosecutor-general’s official spokesperson Mostafa Dowidar stated on Tuesday’s evening that Talaat Abdullah, the prosecutor-general, has ordered his office to prepare a memo for Interpol, in order to arrest Ahmed Shafiq, former presidential candidate and former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt's National Salvation Front (NSF) opposition coalition issued a statement on Tuesday afternoon listing its conditions for dialogue with the presidency.

Hundreds Ultras Al-Masry members and Port Fouad residents blocked the road leading to the eastern side of Port Said with tree trunks and flaming tires on Tuesday.

Hopes for holding Egypt's parliamentary elections this summer have become dim in recent days. On Monday, the High Constitutional Court (HCC) took the Islamist-led Shura Council (the upper house of Egypt's parliament) aback by deciding that as many as ten articles of two draft laws regulating parliamentary polls run counter to the newly-approved constitution.