1. Top Headlines

• Outgoing agriculture minister detained pending investigation into corruption charges. (Monday)
• Syria and Egypt agree on restoring ties. (Friday)
• Egyptian prime minister and cabinet resign after a series of high-profile accusations of corruption. (Saturday)

 Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egyptian court sentences 9 to death for murdering a police officer
• Outgoing agriculture minister detained pending investigation into corruption charges
• Egyptian anti-corruption activist was arrested, investigated for bribery charges
• Egypt’s PM cancels unpopular move to exempt certain students from university zoning
• Egyptian court rulings force electoral committee to change plans
• Egypt to issue Islamic bonds to finance deficit
• Egyptian business tycoon Sawiris welcomes contributions to “refugee island”

Tuesday

• Egypt’s stocks tumble on investor worrier over high-profile corruption case
• Egypt’s army has launched a “major military operation” against the Islamic State group in Sinai
• Egypt court upholds ban on tycoon Ahmed Ezz from running in parliamentary elections
• No appeasement with corruption, Egypt’s PM says
• Egyptian prosecution releases 25 accused of torching police station pending trial
• High-profile figures line up to register for Egypt’s parliamentary elections
• Egypt makes a huge downsize of its housing project with Arabtec
• Constitution Party to participate in upcoming parliamentary elections

Wednesday

• 27 more ‘terrorists’ were killed in a second day of a major operation in North Sinai
• Reports that Egypt sends up to 800 ground troops to Yemen
• Israel has reopened an embassy in Cairo after four years of closure
• Eni chief says Egypt gas find estimate is conservative, could be raised
• Egypt’s Armed forces’ chief Mahmoud Hegazy of staff to testify in Morsi’s Qatar espionage case
• Egypt lifts crowd ban for national team matches

 Thursday

• Egypt denies sending troops to Yemen
• Egypt’s parliamentary elections will be held on time
• US sending more troops to Sinai to boost peace keepers’ security
• Mohamed Fahmy’s wife says he is struggling behind bars in Egypt
• Abbas meets with Egypt’s Sisi “for important strategic talk”‪
• Parliament candidacy of Mubarak-era tycoon Ezz is accepted despite court ban
• Global conspiracy theory to control climate and destroy Egypt is mocked online

Friday

• Syria and Egypt agree on restoring ties
• Egypt says it has killed 98 Islamist militants during military operation in Sinai
• Canada, India, Singapore, Egypt are “seriously” interested in buying France’s Mistral worships
• Egypt: Palestinian flag at UN is a new step towards new independent state
• Sahwet Misr’ withdraws from parliamentary elections
• Egypt ‪ to investigate theft of gold from its coinage

 Saturday

• Egypt’s Prime Minister resigns amid corruption probe
• Former Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail to form a new government
• Egypt sentenced 12 to death over affiliation with the Islamic State
• Car bomb kills an Egyptian woman and a child in Sinai
• Registration for parliamentary polls closes on Saturday
• Two ‪Egyptians were dead in Mecca’s crane disaster
• 5037 hopefuls apply to stand in parliamentary elections
• Clooney says Canada should press Egypt on jailed journalist

Sunday

• ‪President Sisi: Egypt’s 2014 constitution was written with good intentions but is not enough
• Egypt’s military says two soldiers, 64 militants were killed in Sinai
• El-Sisi urges youth to participate in parliamentary elections
• UNHCR: Egypt hosts 350,000 unregistered Syrian refugees
• Value added tax to raise Egyptian government revenue by 11 %: Study
• High level German businessmen delegation began a 5-day visit to Egypt

 Good Report

• Egypt limits ability of imams to run for office. Rami Galal
• Dutch firm withdraws from studies of Ethiopia ‘s Renaissance Dam. Ahram
• Top female student takes on corruption in Egypt after scoring zero on exams. AFP
• The vanishing: Why Are young Egyptian activists disappearing? Nicola Abé
• S. rushes reinforcements to Egypt after an ISIS attack. Nancy Youssef

And

• TIMEP partners with Eshhad to launch sectarianism and minority rights tracking in Egypt.

Good Read

• Storming out of Presser does not help, PM Zeinobia
• Ahead of the parliamentary race, what’s left of Egypt’s political parties? Omar Halawa

Profile

• Meet Egypt’s new Prime Minister Sherif Ismail

From Twitter

Video

• Egyptian employees stage protest against unjust civil service law

Plus

• About 250 artifacts from sunken Egyptian cities are going on display in Paris
• Cairo’s defiant tuk-tuk drivers

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt