The Youth Love Egypt (YLE) Foundation organized a cycle marathon in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on FridayCAIRO – 18 December 2021: Egypt named the year 2016 as the year of youths, since then, building youth capacity became on the state’s radar and part of its development agenda. As young people, below 40 years, represent about 60 percent of the Egyptian population, capacity-building, training and empowerment plans were adopted at different state agencies. The state has also announced the National Academy for Youth Training and Rehabilitation, supported the partisan participation of youth Launching the Youth Parties' Coordination, and launched the New Republic's Youth Union. 4- Established 11 incubators all over Egypt, benefiting more than 340 young men and women, with 10 feddans for each young man. 7- Provided more than 40 thousand job opportunities for young people to provide more than 40 thousand jobs for young people.

(Reuters) - Dominant Inter Milan notched a sixth consecutive Serie A victory by thrashing bottom side Salernitana 5-0 in Salerno on Friday to stretch their lead at the top of the standings to four points. The champions are on an unstoppable run of league form, winning their last five games without conceding a goal and going ten matches without defeat. I made some changes but you couldn’t tell, everyone was involved," Inter coach Simone Inzaghi told Sky Italia. Inter are top with 43 points, four clear of AC Milan in second, who play Napoli on Sunday evening. The Ukrainian has picked up one point from his first six league games in charge and his side are 19th with 10 points, while Lazio climbed to eighth with 28 points.

CAIRO- 17 December 2021: Egypt’s Cabinet approved to give COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for those who were fully-vaccinated more than six months ago. The Acting Minister said that 23 million booster doses will be provided until June 30, 2022. On Thursday evening, the Health Ministry said 901 new coronavirus cases were detected in 24 hours in Egypt, upping the total number of infections to 372,599. Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said 31 patients died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 21,234. He added that the ministry has already used 48 million doses in vaccination so far, with about 51 million doses remaining ready for use.

(Reuters) - Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has called for the Premier League to offer more clarity on the games being postponed due to COVID-19, telling reporters on Friday that transparency was essential to maintain fairness. The Premier League has postponed the games that were scheduled for the weekend due to COVID-19 outbreaks at various clubs. Arsenal's trip to Leeds United on Saturday, however, is set to go ahead. Arteta also stressed the importance of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 and said there were no positive cases in the Arsenal camp but added that the situation was changing every day. Yes, we try to do the right thing and it's a really personal matter.

ANKARA, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Turkey will hike its minimum wage by a massive 50% to 4,250 lira ($275.44) per month next year to address a currency crash and inflation spike, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. The dollar value of the 2021 minimum wage – some 2,825 lira monthly – has tumbled to $185 from $380 at the start of the year due to the currency crisis, Turkey’s second in four years. The government would also lift taxes on the minimum wage to ease burdens on employers, he said. read more“Our currency is known, and it is the lira, and we will not let it be swallowed,” Erdogan said. Erdogan said stability will be ensured with new measures in the coming days, but did not specify what they were.

CAIRO-17 December 2021: Trent Alexander-Arnold, England and Liverpool defender, praised the current form of his Egyptian teammate, Mohamed Salah, after Liverpool's 3-1 victory over Newcastle United on Thursday night. Salah and Alexander-Arnold were on the scoresheet, moving the Reds back within one point behind the league leaders, Manchester City. "He's the best player in the world right now - that goes without saying. He wants to break every single record and write his name in the history book. The English defender stated.

The Health Ministry determined the type of the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine that some groups will receive to enhance their immunity, hours after the Cabinet announced, in its weekly meeting, the approval of granting a booster dose of the vaccine. The third dose should be received six months after receiving the second dose, according to the ministry. The target group will receive messages for the third dose to determine the time and place of receiving the vaccine..Whoever receives the first and second doses of the Sinovac vaccine will receive the third booster dose of one of the following vaccines Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Sinofarm, and whoever receives the first and second doses of AstraZeneca vaccine gets the third booster dose of Pfizer or Moderna. Whoever gets the first and second dose of Johnson’s vaccine, gets the third booster dose of Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca. As for those who receive the first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine, will receive the third booster dose of Moderna or AstraZeneca, and whoever receives the first and second doses of the Moderna vaccine will receive the third booster dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca.

TOKYO (AP) — More than 20 people were feared dead after a fire broke out Friday in a building in Osaka in western Japan, officials said, and police were investigating arson as a possible cause. The fire started on the fourth floor of an eight-story building in the major business, shopping and entertainment area of Kitashinchi, Osaka fire department official Akira Kishimoto said. Many of the victims are believed to be visitors at the clinic on the fourth floor, fire department officials said. People on other floors of the building were believed to have been safely evacuated, Kishimoto said. NHK quoted a witness as saying she heard a woman’s voice coming from the fourth floor calling for help.

The agreement was inked with HSBC, UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse. The guarantee contract was signed with UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse. The step comes as part of the government's plan for developing the textile sector, through doubling the production capacity of gins and factories affiliated to Misr Spinning and Weaving Company. The plan is also aimed at establishing seven new gins to manufacture clean and traceable cotton, with a view to providing quality inputs to the garment industry, as well as implementing a project to produce cottonseed oil in cooperation with the private sector. Under this agreement, the Swiss Export Risk Insurance (SERV) would offer credit facility to Misr Spinning and Weaving Company to purchase European machinery and equipment for its factories.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi in a meeting with Minister of Justice Omar Marwan at Al Itihadiyah presidential palace on December 16, 2021. Press PhotoCAIRO – 16 December 2021: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi urged Minister of Justice Omar Marwan Thursday to automate Registry offices nationwide. The president held a meeting with the minister to follow up on the development plans of the litigation system, including the introduction of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology so it would turn spoken words into text. On his side, the minister stated that verdicts in cases that have been in courts since the 1990s were issued within the efforts deployed to accelerate litigation and prosecution processes.

CAIRO – 16 December 2021: The law by which public officers who use drugs shall be fired came into effect on Wednesday after six months of its announcement. Employees who will voluntarily seek help from the Fund for Drug Control and Treatment of Addiction (FDCTA) who will continue to abuse without seeking help, will be fired. Six months were allowed before enforcing the law to give abusing employees to be treated. Surprise visits by committees from the fund will test random employees for drug abuse. Earlier in December, Chairman of FDCTA Amr Othman said the prevalence rate of drug use among public employees declined from eight percent in 2017 to 1.7 percent at present.

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CAIRO – 16 December 2021: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on December 16. 1899 - Italian club AC Milan was founded by Englishman Herbert Kilpin. 1971 - Bahrain declares its independence from the United Kingdom, after one hundred and ten years of British occupation. 2017 - Real Madrid wins the 2017 Club World Cup after defeating Grêmio with a clean goal in the final.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.N. humanitarian aid delivery from Turkey to rebel-held northwestern Syria is tightly monitored and remains critical, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says in a report that could be key to keeping the effort going. Syria, which isn’t a council member, called the cross-border convoys politicized and unnecessary. U.N. officials, the United States, Europeans and others said the cross-border deliveries remained crucial, warning that stopping them could bring devastating consequences for a million or more Syrians. Hence the new report, in which Guterres details how cross-border shipments are checked and tracked. “The cross-border operation remains an essential part of the humanitarian response and will continue to do so as long as needs cannot be addressed at the same scope and scale through any other modality,” he wrote.

But there has been a surge in serious cases among people in their 60s or older, including those whose immunities have waned after getting inoculated early in the vaccine rollout that began in February. More than 81% of the population of over 51 million has been fully vaccinated, but only 17% of people have received booster shots. She said that would push the number of serious cases to between 1,600 and 1,900, possibly beyond what hospitals could handle without sacrificing their non-COVID-19 care. Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol said the four-person gatherings limit will only be applied to fully vaccinated adults. Those who aren’t fully vaccinated will be required to eat alone at restaurants, Kwon said.