Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Monday that relations with Qatar are progressing well and will not repeat the mistakes of the past while avoiding interference in internal affairs. Egypt and Qatar agreed to resume diplomatic relations in January. The agreements come after nearly four years of a row between Qatar and Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the UAE over Qatar’s alleged terrorism sponsorship and its close relations with Iran. Egypt and the other three countries involved in the dispute agreed to restore ties with Qatar immediately after the summit. Despite the agreement, Egypt likely remains wary of Qatar due to its connections with the Muslim Brotherhood and the harsh coverage Cairo receives from Qatari media, specifically state-run Al Jazeera.

GAZA, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Palestinian artist Khaled Hussein’s sculptures of human limbs are on display in a Gaza exhibition he calls “I Miss You Very Much”, inspired by the loss felt by amputees, including victims of the conflict with Israel. It has become a phenomenon, so I wanted to work on this issue and reflect it artistically,” Hussein, 46, told Reuters. Seven of Hussein’s sculptures of limbs went on display this month in a Gaza art gallery. A leg depicted beside a mirror is a reference to a therapy technique that uses vision to treat pain amputees can feel in their missing limbs. But the work explores the loss of a limb regardless of the cause.

Asked if he was going to leave next summer, Mbappe told French sports daily L'Equipe: "I’ve been in football long enough now to know that yesterday's truth is not necessarily today's, nor tomorrow's. If I was told that Messi was going to play at PSG, I wouldn't have believed it, so you never know what's going to happen." Mbappe was heard saying "this bum, he never passes to me" in a Ligue 1 game against Montpellier last month. That's why, immediately afterwards, seeing how big it had become, I talked to him about it," said Mbappe. "That's why I wanted support, not because I took my penalty on the left and (Yann) Sommer stopped it.

CAIRO - 5 October 2021: The Health Ministry said that 771 new coronavirus cases were detected in Egypt over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 307,569. In a statement on Tuesday, spokesman for the Health Ministry Dr Khaled Megahed said that 33 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 17,469. Egypt has announced it has entered the fourth wave of Coronavirus as infection rates climbed up. The Ministry of Health also announced that five different vaccines are now available in nearly 539 vaccine centers across the country against coronavirus. Adviser to Egyptian President for health and preventive affairs Mohamed Taj el-Din stated that the fourth wave of Coronavirus has started in Egypt, expecting no soon end to the pandemic in the coming years.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban forces unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazaras, most of them Afghan soldiers who had surrendered to the insurgents, a prominent rights group said Tuesday. Eleven of the victims were members of the Afghan national security forces and two were civilians, among them a 17-year-old girl. The reported killings took place about two weeks after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in a blitz campaign, culminating in their takeover of Kabul. Meanwhile in Kabul, the Taliban said Tuesday they arrested 11 members of the Islamic State group, a rival and bitter enemy of the insurgents. After nine security forces surrendered, the Taliban took them to a nearby river basin and killed them, according to the rights group.

Taiwan says it is an independent country and will defend its freedoms and democracy, blaming China for the tensions. Japan and Australia on Tuesday urged the two to talk, while the United States said it has been “conveying clear messages” after what it described as destabilizing activities by China. Taiwan calls China’s repeated nearby military activities “grey zone” warfare, designed to both wear out Taiwan’s forces by making them repeatedly scramble, and also to test Taiwan’s responses. Taiwan does not seek military confrontation, Tsai said, “but if its democracy and way of life are threatened, Taiwan will do whatever it takes to defend itself.”JAPAN, AUSTRALIA CONCERNThe United States, Taiwan’s main military supplier, has its “rock-solid” commitment to Taiwan. China has blamed the United States for the tensions due to its arms sales and support for the island.

Two early calls about the spill came into the National Response Center, which is staffed by the Coast Guard and notifies other agencies of disasters for quick response. Shaye said the Coast Guard was not notified of the disaster until Saturday morning, though records show its hazardous spill response hotline received the first report of a possible oil slick Friday evening. The report by the National Response Center said the image of a “possible oil anomaly” was probably associated with the first report. Other potential criminal investigations were being pursued by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, officials said. That welding process has been linked to past oil pipeline failures because corrosion can occur along seams, according to government safety advisories and Caram.

Haugen also has filed complaints with federal authorities alleging that Facebook’s own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest, but the company hides what it knows. She worked for 15 years prior to being recruited by Facebook in 2019 at companies including Google and Pinterest. Haugen is set to testify to the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection at a hearing Tuesday. They accused Facebook of concealing the negative findings about Instagram and demanded a commitment from the company to make changes. Separately Monday, a massive global outage plunged Facebook, Instagram and the company’s WhatsApp messaging platform into chaos, only gradually dissipating by late Monday Eastern time.

FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Facebook logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationOct 4 (Reuters) - Facebook and Instagram appeared to be partially reconnected to the global internet on Monday afternoon, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform. Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time, in what website monitoring group Downdetector said was the largest such failure it had ever seen, with 10.6 million problem reports globally. (Also Read: Facebook asks judge to dismiss lawsuit to force sale of Instagram, WhatsApp)Around 5:45 pm ET, some Facebook users began to regain partial access to the social media app. The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower on Sunday accused the company of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation.

(Reuters) - The current levels of match congestion, extensive travel and reduced off season time in elite men's soccer are detrimental to players' health and careers, global players' union FIFPRO said in a report on Tuesday. National team regulars at the top clubs have the toughest workload, the report said, adding that some players spent 70% to 80% of their playing time in a two-game-a-week rhythm. FIFPRO recommended that soccer governing bodies enforce a four-week break between seasons and a two-week mid-season break to safeguard players' mental and physical well-being. The union also suggested a mandatory break for individual players after a specified number of successive games. FIFPRO last month called for reforms to the international calendar to address the need for a reduced workload for players after soccer's world governing body FIFA announced a feasibility study into making the World Cup a biennial event.

National Council for WomenThis is in addition to Maya Morsy, the human rights and women advocate who leads the National Council for Women (NCW) established in 2000. National Council for Human RightsMoushira Khattab has been selected to lead the National Council for Human Rights, Egypt’s independent council in charge of developing and promoting human rights. The NCHR also cooperates with the National Council for Women and the National Council for Motherhood and Childhood to enhance the state’s institutions’ efficiency regarding promoting human rights. National Strategy for Human RightsPresident Sisi in September attended a celebration to launch the 2021/2026 National Strategy for Human Rights in Egypt in the New Administrative Capital (NAC). The fourth section deals with five areas that are promoting awareness pertinent to human rights, introducing human rights content in education curricula, training members of the Police Authority, training members of judicial entities, and improving the training programs delivered to workers at the administrative body.

The selection comes shortly after President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi last month announced the launch of Egypt’s National Strategy for Human Rights, to serve the country’s comprehensive human rights concept. The NCHR, through independent work in the country, seeks to develop and implement a national strategy for human rights as well as to protect and promote human rights in accordance with the Constitution. The NCHR’s vision is to “make human rights concerns a national priority.”The Council holds human rights-related conferences, sessions and round-table discussions. Comprehensive concept of human rightsPresident Sisi in September attended a celebration to launch the 2021/2026 National Strategy for Human Rights in Egypt in the New Administrative Capital (NAC). The strategy consists of four sections that are Civil and Political Rights; Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; Rights of Women, Children, Disabled, Youth, and Elderly; and, Awareness and Capacity-Building in the Field of Human Rights.

CAIRO – 7 October 2021: On October 7, the Royal Swedish Academy "Nobel" will announce the name of the winner of the Novel Prize in Literature for the year 2021, amid anticipation of intellectuals and those interested in literary affairs, in various countries of the world. The Royal Swedish Academy also confirmed that it will not organize a ceremony in Stockholm this year, and that the winners will receive the awards in their countries. Announcements are made in Stockholm and Oslo, and are broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize, according to the New York Times. The Nobel Prize announcement dates in the various categories come as follows:- The Physics Prize will be announced on October 5. Six Nobel Prizes are awarded each year, each recognizing the pioneering contribution of an individual or organization in a particular field.

CAIRO – 4 October 2021: Egypt’s Giza Pyramids and the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir received some of the members of the Union for the Mediterranean. These visits came on the sidelines of their current visit to Egypt to attend the second Ministerial Conference for the Environment of the Mediterranean region. Director General of the Pyramid Antiquities AreaAshraf Mohieddin received the members in the Giza Antiquities Area, and accompanied them on a tour to the three pyramids, the Sphinx and the Panorama areas. They expressed their fascination with the ancient Egyptian civilization, the greatness of the Pyramids, and the miraculous carving of the Great Sphinx. Two of the secretariat of the conference visited the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, where they were received by Sabah Abdel Razek, the director of the museum, and Ahmed Samir, the curator of the Egyptian Museum, and toured the museum's various halls.

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