Egypt, UAE and Saudi Arabia among members absent from forum, challenging legitimacy of government whose rival they back

Safwan and Seif el-Din Thabet were arrested over suspected funding of Muslim Brotherhood, kept in prison while charges probed; release comes as Cairo eases silencing of critics

The operator of Israel's Leviathan and Tamar gas fields says exploration at Egyptian offshore field in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea 'encountered high-quality reservoirs'

Three men arrested for trying to steal pharaonic artifact and excavate antiquities at Aswan

Statistics bureau shows annual inflation at 21.9% last month, up from 19.2% in November, with fruits and dairy products seeing highest spikes among food items

Tugboats attempt to refloat Norwegian vessel holding 65,000 tons of Ukrainian corn bound for China; in 2021, ship blocked waterway for 6 days, delaying $9 billion in daily trade

Three-meter-tall coffin, which may have belonged to priest named Ankhenmaat, was stolen and smuggled via Germany into US in 2008; returned in official Cairo ceremony

3 Egyptian police officers were killed in shooting in Suez Canal city on Friday, following years of attacks concentrated in Sinai

Petroleum minister tells parliamentary committee well in Nagris block still being evaluated; energy newsletter reports its size as 3.5 trillion cubic feet

Support granted in exchange for financial reforms; nation hit hard by pandemic and is world’s largest wheat importer, most of which came from Russia and Ukraine