CAIRO – 8 October 2021: Egypt’s Fuel Automatic Pricing Committee decided Friday to increase the prices of fuel in the local market by 25 piastres per liter, the Ministry of Petroleum announced. Egypt earlier increased gasoline prices by 25 piasters per liter two times this year, the latest of which was on 23 July. The new prices as per Friday’s hike are LE 7 for 80 octane gasoline up from LE 6.75, LE 8.25 for 92 octane gasoline up from LE 8, and LE 9.25 for 95 octane gasoline, compared to LE 9. The Fuel Automatic Pricing Committee is formed from representatives of the finance and petroleum ministries and is assigned with reviewing gasoline prices in Egypt every three months. The latest time Egypt decreased gasoline prices was in April 2020 by 25 piasters per liter.

SEOUL, Oct 8 (Reuters) – North Korea’s food situation remains perilous according to analysts and a United Nations expert who raised doubts this week about its harvest, and there are signs that it is receiving large shipments of humanitarian aid from China. Health and nutrition supplies from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and medical supplies to support anti-pandemic work from the World Health Organisation were among the aid that had reached North Korea. “North Korea has been letting other goods into the country since May, including large volumes of what appears to be humanitarian assistance from China,” he said. O’Carroll said he thinks North Korea will still be able to stave off major food shortages through the aid and imports from China. “However, the quality, range and nutritional value of the food supplies on offer will be low,” he added.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all Americans agree that the rampant spread of misinformation is a problem. Ninety-five percent of Americans identified misinformation as a problem when they’re trying to access important information. Yet only 2 in 10 Americans say they’re very concerned that they have personally spread misinformation. There’s more bipartisan agreement, however, about the role that social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, play in the spread of misinformation. The poll also revealed that Americans are willing to blame just about everybody but themselves for spreading misinformation, with 53% of them saying they’re not concerned that they’ve spread misinformation.

The Palestinians and human rights groups view the practice of holding bodies as a form of collective punishment that inflicts further suffering on bereaved families. The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center, a Palestinian rights group, says Israel is holding the bodies of at least 82 Palestinians since the policy was established in 2015. Hamas holds the remains of the two Israeli soldiers killed during the 2014 Gaza war in an undisclosed location. Security camera footage shows the car veering into a group of Israeli soldiers and sending one of them flying back. In 2011, it traded more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier who had been captured by Palestinian militants five years earlier and was being held in Gaza.

A former moderate who recently turned hawk on security issues, he said Japan should also increase preparedness for growing regional threats. He said the security environment has become more severe, and that he would revise Japan’s national security and defense strategy to bolster missile defense capability and naval defense. North Korea’s missile and nuclear development cannot be tolerated, but Japan seeks to normalize diplomatic ties with Pyongyang by resolving the “unfortunate (wartime) past,” and the decades-old issue of Japanese citizens abducted to the North, Kishida said. Kishida repeated that he is ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toward making a breakthrough. Kishida said he hopes to close divisions caused by the pandemic that has worsened gaps between the rich and the poor.

TURIN, Italy: World champions France recovered from two goals down to beat Belgium 3-2 in a thrilling Nations League semi-final on Thursday (Oct 7) with a last-minute strike from Theo Hernandez securing a place in Sunday's showpiece match against Spain. In a crazy end to the game, Belgium thought they had won the pulsating contest minutes earlier but Romelu Lukaku's late effort was ruled out for offside by VAR. We sat back a little too much," said France coach Didier Deschamps. "They had a good period for 20 minutes but after that we were not in danger and had a lot of chances. "In the second half, we were a little too emotional - maybe we were thinking a little too much about the final, about qualifying.

HONG KONG, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Japan's hopes of World Cup qualification suffered a major blow on Thursday as a 1-0 loss to Saudi Arabia ramped up the pressure on coach Hajime Moriyasu while Australia set a new record with victory over Oman. Australia remained in pole position in Group B and were joined on nine points by Saudi Arabia after they piled further pressure on six-times World Cup qualifiers Japan. Only the top two teams in each of Asia's two qualifying groups are guaranteed to advance to the World Cup, with the third-placed finishers moving into a series of playoffs. Wu guided Wang Shenchao's cross home from close range deep into added time, however, to give Li Tie's team their first victory after losses to Australia and Japan. The Lebanese drew 0-0 with Iraq, who are in fifth, while the Syrians prop up the standings with a point.

CAIRO – 7 October 2021: Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, condemned, Thursday Houthi militia's attack that targeted Abha International Airport with a booby-trapped drone which was intercepted by the Arab Coalition after leaving some innocent people injured. The Foreign Ministry expressed in a statement, Egypt’s full support for Saudi Arabia in its efforts for confronting the repeated outrageous Houthi attacks targeting the kingdom in violation of international law and threat to regional security and stability. Egypt reiterated its full solidarity with Saudi Arabia, as well as backing for all measures adopted by the authorities in the kingdom to defend its stability and the safety of citizens and residents, the statement read. Maqdeshi delivered the greetings of Yemeni President Abdel Rabo Mansour Hady valuing cooperation ties between Egypt and Yemen in all sectors, particularly the military and security ones. The minister added that his country looks forward to continuous support by Egypt for political endeavors targeted at containing the situation in Yemen and ending its humanitarian crisis.

In its most dramatic move, it said it will be lifting the hotel quarantine requirement for arrivals to England from 47 countries, including South Africa, Mexico and Thailand. Though the announcement only relates to England, the other nations of the U.K. — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — have generally followed suit. The changes mean that anyone arriving from the 47 countries removed from the red list will be spared that requirement. British Airways announced it will resume services and increase frequencies to a number of winter destinations removed from the red list, such as Cape Town and Johannesburg, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. “Britain will benefit from this significant reduction in red list countries and now it’s time to turn our attention to eradicating testing for fully-vaccinated travelers to ensure we don’t lose our place on the global stage.”___Follow all of AP’s pandemic coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic.

JERUSALEM (AP) — A ruling by a local Israeli court in favor of a Jewish man who prayed quietly at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site has angered Muslim authorities, who denounced it on Thursday as a violation of the fragile status quo governing the compound. The ruling by a magistrate court in Jerusalem concerned a Jewish man who had been barred from the site for 15 days after Israeli police caught him quietly praying there. Under a longstanding but informal arrangement known as the status quo, Jews are allowed to visit the site but not pray there. The Palestinians and neighboring Jordan, which serves as the custodian of the holy site, fear that Israel plans to eventually take over the compound or partition it — as it did with a similarly contested holy site in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Friday prayers at the mosque are regularly attended by tens of thousands of Palestinians, and are sometimes followed by protests and clashes with Israeli police.

LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A Saudi-Arabian backed consortium completed its purchase of Premier League club Newcastle United on Thursday as a long-running takeover saga finally reached the conclusion the majority of the club's supporters desired. "We are extremely proud to become the new owners of Newcastle United, one of the most famous clubs in English football. We thank the Newcastle fans for their tremendously loyal support over the years and we are excited to work together with them," he said. But Amnesty UK chief executive, Sacha Deshmukh said earlier on Thursday that the Saudi authorities were "sportwashing their appalling human rights record with the glamour of top-flight football. Saudi Arabia's government denies allegations of human rights abuses and says it is protecting national security from extremists and external actors.

Hwang Hee-chan struggled to show his early season Wolverhampton Wanderers form, shinning the ball high over the crossbar from close range midway through the half. But Son struck from close range following Kim Min-jae's knockdown to earn Korea a dramatic win. Iraq and Lebanon drew 0-0 in Doha with both sides remaining winless in Group A on two points from their first three games. Iran, Group A leaders at the start of the day, will take on the United Arab Emirates later on Thursday. In Group B, table toppers Australia will take on Oman while Saudi Arabia host Japan and China play Vietnam.

Four people were killed and two children were injured after a private car rolled-over on the eastern desert road in Giza. The Giza task force received a report from the traffic police on the eastern desert road about an accident and the presence of injured people. The agency added that the number of car accident deaths rose to 3,484 in 2019 – an increase of 12.9 percent. The rate of car accidents increased to 27.4 accidents per day in 2019, it said. CAPMAS attributed the main cause of car accidents to human error at 79.7 percent of the total road accident causes in 2019, followed by technical vehicle defects at 13.5 percent.

CAIRO – 7 October 2021: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on October 7. 1951 - Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa el-Nahhas agrees with the leaders of his government to cancel the "1936 Treaty" and the "Treaty of Dual Rule of Sudan" signed in 1899 with Britain. 1990 - Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al-Maktoum takes over the emirate of Dubai, succeeding his father, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al-Maktoum. 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor of California.

The city hosts the Religions for Peace Conference, which kicked off on Tuesday, with the attendance of 130 representatives of all religions and beliefs in the world. The conference celebrated the peace march Tuesday evening, which started from the conference headquarters and headed to one of the parks where the ring of Peace is located. The circular design was created by the German artist gilbert Barman, who built it at a height of 7.5 meters on Mobius tape format. Dr. Wolfgang Scheurer, head of the ring of peace Organization, says that choosing the symbol of the ring is because the circular design is present in all beliefs. It witnesses the opening of all international forums in Lindau and will be permanently present as a symbol of peace.