Gunmen have killed eight people from a Sudanese ethnic minority group and injured five others as they were praying in a mosque in the country’s war-torn Darfur region.

An Egyptian forensic official says human remains retrieved from EgyptAir 804 crash site point to an explosion on board.

Egyptian security forces have conducted a series of fresh raids against the hideouts of militants in the North African country’s restive Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 58 terrorists over three days.

A robotic submarine has been deployed to search for an EgyptAir plane that recently crashed in the southern Mediterranean with 66 people on board, says the Egyptian president.

Twenty one Egyptians imprisoned for protesting the government’s surrender to Saudi Arabia of two Red Sea islands have gone on hunger strike over their “unfair” trial.

The head of the Greek air safety authority says debris found near a Greek island in the Mediterranean does not belong to a plane, as investigation continues in the aftermath of an EgyptAir plane crash.

Russia has extended Egypt a $25-billion loan to finance the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said.

The Egyptian army says it has found wreckage of the missing EgyptAir flight 804, which crashed after disappearing from the radar while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo.

According to the report published by the Wall Street Journal on Friday, automated communication systems aboard the jetliner sent warning alerts indicating a failure in the control system minutes before the aircraft crashed in the Mediterranean.

The report cited “people familiar with the matter” as saying that the smoke and the accompanying intense heat might explain why the pilot failed to communicate with air-traffic controllers just before the descent.

“We are looking into this report,” an unnamed Egyptian civil aviation ministry official told AFP. “At this point, I can't deny or confirm it."

Meanwhile, another report released by the Aviation Herald said that smoke had been detected in the toilet and the electric system prior to the crash. The flight data were received through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS).

Reports of a possible system failure came hours after the wreckage of the plane, including “personal belongings of the passengers and parts of the plane debris,” was found 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Alexandria.

The aircraft, flying at an altitude of 11,300 meters (37,000 feet), crashed early on Thursday (local time) 10 miles inside the Egyptian airspace and killed all 66 people onboard.

The Egyptian army says it has found wreckage of the missing EgyptAir flight 804, which crashed after disappearing from the radar while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo.

Morocco says the US State Department's report on human rights in the North African kingdom is a list of inventions and even lies.

Human Rights Watch has released a report, cataloging atrocities carried out by the Takfiri terror group of Daesh against Libyans in a northern town.

A leading rights group has condemned the use of excessive force by Kenya’s police, who violently dispersed opposition protesters in four major towns, including Nairobi, Monday.

Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse protesters demanding the dissolution of the country’s electoral commission before next year’s presidential election.

The United States and other world powers have voiced readiness to supply weapons to Libya's internationally-recognized government to counter militants and rivals.

The United Nations (UN) says more than nine million people living in the Lake Chad region are in dire need of food aid, blaming the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group for triggering the unrest in the area.

The United Nations Security Council has condemned crimes committed by Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists, raising concerns about cooperation between the Nigeria-based group with the Daesh terrorists.

Uganda’s main opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been charged with treason for declaring himself president and challenging the election victory of veteran leader Yoweri Museveni.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 51 activists to two years each in prison for taking part in last month’s mass protests against a controversial government decision to hand over the control of two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

Egyptian courts have handed down prison terms to another 151 people arrested during protests against the government’s controversial decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.