Top headlines

• Egyptian parliament expels MP for dining with the Israeli ambassador. Wednesday
• Judicial source says Italy may recall team investigating Giulio Regeni case from Egypt over lack of cooperation. Wednesday
• Egypt says Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood behind top prosecutor’s death. Sunday

 Main Headlines

Monday

• Egypt launches high-interest CDs to lure dollars from overseas workers
• 2,500 Egyptians to be given annual scholarships from Japan
• April 6 Youth Movement cofounder Amr Ali is sentenced to 3-years in prison
• Parliament approves 10-session ban for MP Tawfiq Okasha
• Researcher of Islamist movements is arrested for alleged Muslim Brotherhood links
• Saudi Arabia to meet Egypt’s oil needs for 5 years
• Egypt’s interior ministry says jailed journalists to receive needed medical treatment
• TV show host Reham Saeed sentenced to 18 months in prison for airing photos of assault victim

 Tuesday

• Italian killed in Egypt was interrogated for days
• Reports about Italian student’s repeated torture are ‘lies’: Egyptian official
• Electricity transformer explodes in downtown Cairo
• Egypt signs military cooperation agreement with Cyprus
• Egypt’s Doctors Syndicate summons health minister for disciplinary actions
• Egyptian journalist’s question at the Oscars stirs controversy

Wednesday

• Egyptian student who ‘threatened Trump’ on Facebook to be deported
• Egyptian parliament expels MP for dining with the Israeli ambassador
• Alexandria’s military court issues sentences against 16 civilians, including 7 executions
• Amid low turnout, Independence Current wins big at Engineers’ syndicate elections

 Thursday

• Police officer was killed in Cairo’s Shobra El-Khema
• Former US ambassador to Egypt and Turkey named as next president of the American University in Cairo
• Egypt extradites Frenchman in “Air Cocaine” case
• Actress Mirhan Hussein accuses police of assaults and harassment

Friday

• Human rights lawyer Negad al-Boraie faces legal charges over anti-torture draft law
• Detained Al-Badil journalist tortured and disappeared: Rights group
• By-election for Okasha’s seat to take place April 15-17
• Egypt’s poorest struggle to find rice amid hoarding

Saturday

• Tourism minister attends memorial for Regeni, but Italian ambassador was absent
• 12 officials from Red Sea governorate to be tried for corruption
• Mass hunger strike at Egypt’s infamous Scorpion prison
• Lawyers for Darb al-Ahmar victim demand harsher charges for police shooter
• Egypt rights groups raise concerns over violations at UN rights council
• Journalist accused of joining January 25 Youth Movement is released
• Egypt says reached agreement over foreign airline payments over foreign airlines’ payments

 Sunday 

• Egypt say Hamas, Brotherhood involved in the killing of top prosecutor Barakat
• Hamas denies it aided Muslim Brotherhood leaders in plotting 2015 car bombing in Egypt
• Roadside bomb kills two, medic shot dead in North Sinai
• Egyptian-French joint military training commences in Alexandria
• Egyptian policeman sentenced to death for killing three cousins over sorcery
• Egyptian Coptic church proposes draft law to allow divorce in cases of desertion
• Egypt imposes entrance ban on Hezbollah’s leaders following Gulf’s declaration
• MPs talk tough as dollar approaches LE10 on black market

Good Reports

• Blasphemy trials on the rise in Egypt. Mohamed Saied
• In battle to destroy ISIS, Egypt’s Sisi struggles to rally Sinai’s Bedouin tribes. Ahmed Aboulenein/ Reuters
• Bureaucrat and old fungus law hold Egypt’s wheat supplies hostage. Eric Knecht and Maha El Dahan
• Adjusting Egypt’s moral compass. Dalia Rabie

Good Read

• The great Brotherhood divide. Mostafa Hashem
• Egypt, optimistically. Hannah Burns
• The president’s best is not good enough for Egypt. Mohammed Nosseir

 From Twitter

https://twitter.com/Mokhtar_Awad/status/706723357442625536

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Plus

• Egypt’s late actor Omar Sharif was honored in Oscar tributes
• New exhibition chronicles meeting of ancient Israel and Egypt

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt