Just weeks after a pharaoh's 3,000-year-old bracelet was stolen, officials in Egypt say an even older piece of art has vanished from a tomb wall.

Israel and Hamas delegations convene in Egypt one day before the 2nd anniversary of Hamas terror attacks to negotiate details of President Donald Trump's comprehensive peace proposal.

Hamas leader Fawzi Barhoum in a statement Tuesday said the terror group would not allow Israel to end the war as victors. “Despite the brutal military force, unlimited support, and full American partnership in the war of extermination in Gaza, they have not and will not succeed in achieving a false image of victory,” the terrorist leader claimed.

Negotiations are focused on creating "field conditions" for a possible exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, officials tell the BBC.

Egypt's current account deficit narrowed to $2.2 billion in the April-June 2025 quarter from $3.7 billion in the same period a year earlier, the central bank said on Tuesday.

Egyptian antiquities officials have reported the disappearance of a pharaonic painting from the Saqqara necropolis near Cairo.

Egypt’s former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Khaled El-Enany, has been named Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), securing a record victory in the organization’s vote.

By Dina Sakr and Mohamed Ezz CAIRO (Reuters) -Rising Nile waters inundated homes and fields in northern Egypt over the weekend, forcing residents to move by boat and intensifying a war of words between Cairo and Addis Ababa over whether Ethiopia's giant Nile dam has worsened seasonal floods.