The deal to hand over the two uninhabited islands — Tiran and Sanafir — was announced by the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in April.
The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder are undergoing electrical tests before investigators can extract data from them.
Egypt’s president inaugurated an $8 billion expansion of the Suez Canal last year that aims to boost annual revenue to more than $13 billion by 2023.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says investigators are working to piece together what happened at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
An Egyptian court handed down its final ruling on 11 people who were accused of leaking national security documents to Al Jazeera and Qatar.
The court also said the death penalty had been approved for six others accused alongside ex-President Mohamed Morsi, including three journalists sentenced in absentia.
The discovery of the doomed passenger jet's cockpit voice recorder follows Wednesday's spotting of some of the plane's wreckage.
ISIS “is probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the West, including refugee flows, smuggling routes, and legitimate methods of travel,” he said.
Egyptian officials say they’ve found the remains of the Paris-to-Cairo flight that mysteriously crashed May 19.
There are 351 slums deemed unsafe, most of them in the sprawling capital of Cairo, where the poorest have built ramshackle homes that lack basic amenities.
Officials told media outlets the historic structures were watched by surveillance cameras and guards.
It is believed that the Quran was made known to the Prophet Mohammed during the holy month.
The prospect of Israelis and Palestinians living side-by-side in peace is gradually fading, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said.
Israel denies committing war crimes in Gaza and has kept the small coastal enclave under a blockade largely since Hamas seized control there in 2007.
The boat, appearing to be a large fishing vessel and carrying a “significant number” of people, sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday.
The Silicon Valley ride-hailing company just won a big backer in the Middle East: Saudi oil money.
Two ships became available after a French deal with Russia was canceled in 2014.
The trial of the chief of Egyptian Syndicate of Journalists and two of the union’s board members will begin Saturday at a Cairo misdemeanors court.
Israeli leader says a 2002 Arab League initiative based on the land-for-peace principle could be a framework for talks.
A Muslim mob in a southern Egyptian village had torched and looted seven houses of Christian families on May 20.
The head of Airports Council International says security proposals being considered by the U.N. could make travelers sitting ducks.
A father and son accused of supporting terrorism say they were tortured in prison.
