Prosecutors in Egypt have dismissed a sexual harassment complaint against Ecuador's ambassador because of insufficient evidence, the foreign ministry in Quito said Monday.

An unidentified woman working as a consultant to Ecuadoran diplomatic staff in Cairo made the allegation against German Espinoza last month, a ministry statement said.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made a lightning stop in Riyadh on Monday night to wish the ailing Saudi King Abdullah good health, official media reported.

Sisi arrived from the United Arab Emirates where he had addressed a conference about the fight against "terrorism".

Egyptian jihadists claimed Monday to have bombed a pipeline in the Sinai that carries gas to Jordan, saying it was targeted over Amman's role in the U.S.-led war on the Islamic State group.

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Egypt's deadliest militant group which has pledged allegiance to IS, tweeted unverified pictures of the claimed attack, without saying when it was carried out.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday said the fight against "terrorism" needs a new Muslim religious discourse in addition to security and military measures.

"The rise in terrorism... requires a thoughtful response from the international community," said Sisi told the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.

Egypt is to reopen the Rafah crossing with Gaza for three days starting Tuesday, for the third time since it was shut in late October after a deadly suicide bombing, security officials said.

The crossing, the only access point to the Palestinian Gaza Strip not controlled by Israel, was to be reopened last week, but the decision was postponed after an Egyptian police officer working at the terminal was kidnapped and killed.

Egypt's public prosecutor on Saturday ordered two policemen to stand trial for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Cairo, in a case which stirred outrage, a judicial source said.

The incident has been widely reported over past weeks in a country faced with increased cases of sexual harassment since its 2011 revolution.

An Egyptian woman died Friday of bird flu, the health ministry announced, the third victim killed in the country this year by the H5N1 infection.

The 43-year-old woman died in the southern city of Asyut, five days after she was hospitalised at the facility where she worked as a nurse, a ministry official from her hometown said.

Arab foreign ministers on Thursday discussed a draft resolution proposed by Manama to condemn perceived “interference” by Hizbullah in the domestic affairs of Bahrain.

An Arab diplomat told Egypt's MENA news agency that the closed-door talks followed the opening session of the Arab FMs' extraordinary meeting that got underway Thursday in Cairo.

An Egyptian soldier was killed trying to defuse a roadside bomb in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, security officials said.

The soldier was killed in the town of Sheikh Zuweid, where jihadist militants have been active despite a sweeping army crackdown.

Canadian foreign minister John Baird said he had a "fruitful" meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Thursday to seek the release of a Canadian journalist imprisoned with two Al-Jazeera colleagues.

But Baird played down expectations that his visit could see Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy freed imminently after more than a year in jail.