Egypt’s Public Prosecution on Tuesday referred two doctors and an employee in a private hospital to criminal trial over forcing a nurse to bow to dog. The Public Prosecution charged the suspects with bullying the nurse as they ordered him to bow to an animal owned by the first suspect, taking advantage of their authority over him with the intent of making him a subject of ridicule and degrading. The prosecution accused the defendants of assaulting the values of the Egyptian society and violating the victim’s privacy by uploading the video online. Security authorities on Tuesday arrested a doctor who appeared in a video that went viral on social media, shown bullying a nurse and forcing him to bow down to a dog. The suspects justified what appeared in the video as a habitual acceptance from the victim to their joking.

The launches came amid a flurry of activity on the peninsula, including high-level diplomatic talks and South Korea’s testing a newly developed submarine-launched ballistic missile of its own. South Korea’s military has raised its level of surveillance, and is maintaining a full readiness posture in close cooperation with the United States, the JCS added. The U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command said North Korea’s missile launches did not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel, territory, or allies, but highlight the destabilising impact of its illicit weapons programme. MISSILE RACEMoon was attending the test firing of a South Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile when word came of the North Korean launches, its first ballistic missile tests since March this year. Both Koreas have been developing a range of new missiles and other weapons, but North Korea’s ballistic missile systems have been banned by United Nations Security Council resolutions.

PARIS (AP) — Health care workers in France face suspension from their jobs starting Wednesday if they haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19. Nearly 90 percent of French health care workers are estimated to be vaccinated, and polls suggest most people support the vaccine mandate for medical staff. The government health authority said Tuesday that 300,000 health workers remained unvaccinated. If health care workers have had only one dose, they have to take a virus test every three days until they have completed the second one. But a small, vocal minority of people are opposed to the coronavirus vaccines, including some health care workers.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s new foreign minister said Tuesday that the Taliban governing the country remain committed to not allowing militants to use their territory to launch attacks. Amir Khan Mutaqi, a longtime Taliban negotiator named as foreign minister, appeared Tuesday at his first news conference since becoming a member of the interim government. A burgeoning IS affiliate has claimed responsibility for most recent attacks, including the horrific bombing outside the Kabul airport that killed 13 U.S. service personnel and 169 Afghans during last month’s chaotic evacuations. Several of the interim ministers, including Mutaqi, Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund and Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, are on the U.N.’s so-called black list of international terrorists and terrorist financers. As the interim interior minister, he oversees Afghanistan’s police and has already called former officers back to work.

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s former prime minister left the country for the United States on Tuesday, his advisor said, despite a subpoena from the judge investigating last year’s devastating explosion at Beirut port. Hassan Diab was the country’s prime minister when the explosion happened on Aug. 4, 2020. Diab was caretaker prime minister until last week, when Najib Mikati successfully formed a new government, ending months of political haggling. As caretaker prime minister, Diab was summoned by investigative judge Tarek Bitar on accusations of intentional killing and negligence. On Tuesday, Bitar issued a new subpoena to include his home address after he stepped down from the premiership.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the presence of foreign troops in Syria, saying they are there against the will of the Syrian government and are blocking the consolidation of the war-torn country, the Kremlin said Tuesday. Putin was referring to hundreds of US troops stationed in eastern Syria and working with Kurdish-led fighters in battling the militant Islamic State group, as well as Turkish forces in northern Syria. Hundreds of Russian troops are deployed across Syria and they also have a military air base along Syria’s Mediterranean coast. Assad and Putin discussed cooperation between their armies and ways to continue operations to gain control of the last rebel-held areas in Syria, state media in Damascus reported. “Only a consolidation of all forces in Syria will allow the country to get on its feet and start steady development, moving forward,” Putin said.

The Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany inaugurated on Monday a project to restore the south tomb of King Djoser in Saqqara, finalizing rehabilitation work which began in 2006. The Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, explained that the south tomb of King Djoser is located in the southern corner of his funerary complex in the Saqqara antiquities area. The tomb consists of two parts, he said: the upper part is a terrace building made of limestone, with a frieze decorated with cobra snakes. The tomb was opened for visits starting from Tuesday, with the prices of visit tickets for Egyptians being LE 40, Egyptian students LE 20, foreigners LE 100, and foreign students LE 50. The visit includes the entrance to the south tomb, the well to its end, and the sarcophagus.

CAIRO - 14 September 2020: Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs Badr Abdel Aati reviewed on Tuesday the cultural rights as part of the national strategy for human rights launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Abdel Ati's statements came as addressed the Creative Forum held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, organized by Union for Mediterranean (UFM) in cooperation with the Slovenian Foreign Ministry. The assistant foreign minister shed light on the role of Egypt's soft power represented in Al Azhar and the Coptic church to implement Egypt's foreign policies as Egypt enjoys rich cultural heritage. Abdel Ati stressed the importance of the role played by culture in international relations especially in the fields of spreading tolerance and dialogue and combatting extremism, racism and hate crimes.

CAIRO - 14 Septemebr 2020: United Nations Resident Coordinator in Egypt Elena Panova lauded the recent legislative reforms that have been carried out by Egypt to economically empower women. Since 1994, human development reports have carry out a pivotal role in shaping the policy dialogues in Egypt, she noted. This report was released after almost a decade, she said, citing the release of the last Egypt Human Development Report in 2010. The report comes at a extremely critical moment, as the world countries, including Egypt, are suffering from the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, Panova added. UN Resident Coordinator in Egypt Elena Panova said that the Egyptian government adopted "bold decisions" to launch the second economic structural reforms and renew its commitment to adopt further reform measures.

CAIRO, Sept 14 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi Tuesday attended a debate on Egypt's 2021 human development report that he received from the UNDP earlier in the day. The report sheds lights on comprehensive development efforts exerted by Egypt. The UN report also focuses on accurate and detailed information about such efforts, as well as achievements over the past years.

CAIRO - 14 September 2020: Head of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation and advisor of human development in Egypt Adel Abdellatif has said the participation of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in the launch of UN human development report reaffirmed the commitment of the country's political leadership to issues of development and human rights. Addressing a workshop while launching the report in the new Administrative Capital, he said the report was prepared by a number of independent and experienced researchers. Abdellatif pointed out that the report does not represent the government or the United nations because it was prepared by a group of independent researchers. He added the report outlined the achievements made in Egypt in the field of development as developing countries can benefit from it.

CAIRO – 14 September 2021: The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is preparing to announce a new archaeological discovery made by the Egyptian mission working in the Saqqara antiquities area. Sources within the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed that the new discovery will be different from the discoveries that have been recently announced, and will be the focus of the world's attention during the coming period. Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mustafa Waziri explained that the southern tomb of King Djoser is located in the southern corner of his funerary complex in the Saqqara antiquities area. It can be reached by a stone staircase that leads to a door carved in the rock as well. Engineer Hisham Samir indicated that the cemetery restoration project began in 2006, and included engineering, geotechnical, geo-environmental and archaeological studies of the cemetery.

GENEVA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Tuesday, documenting worsening violence and rights violations including arbitrary detention by government forces. “The Commission has continued to document not only torture and sexual violence in detention but also custodial deaths and enforced disappearances,” a press release said. The war, which spiralled out of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, sparked the world’s biggest refugee crisis. It also criticised the unlawful internment of thousands of women and children held on suspicion of Islamic State links in camps in areas controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, saying they had no legal recourse. They had “been left to fend for themselves in conditions that may amount to cruel or inhuman treatment”.

DUBAI, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates aims to raise the value of economic activity with Israel to more than $1 trillion in the next 10 years, hoping to work together on everything from healthcare to climate change and energy, the UAE economy minister said. The Gulf Arab state has signed dozens of memorandums of understanding with its new ally in the year since it became the first Arab state to normalize ties with Israel this century. It was not immediately clear how the two countries expect to reach $1 trillion in economic activity in the next decade. The UAE and Israel have between $600 million and $700 million in bilateral trade, the minister, Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, told a virtual conference on Monday. Official Israeli data shows Israel-UAE trade in goods was $610 million in the first seven months of 2021, $400 million of which was UAE exports to Israel and half of that was diamonds.

Grenada, Saint Kitts, and Nevis, Mauritius, Albania, and Serbia on Monday moved to the “Level 4: Covid-19 Very High” category on the CDC’s evolving list of travel notices. People should avoid traveling to locations designated with the “Level 4: Covid-19 Very High” notice, the CDC recommends. These destinations moved to the Level 4 list on September 13:• Afghanistan• Albania• Belize• Grenada• Lithuania• Mauritius• Saint Kitts and Nevis• Serbia• SloveniaThe CDC’s travel notices range from Level 1 (“low”) to Level 4 (“very high”). Destinations that fall into the “Covid-19 Very High” Level 4 category have had more than 500 cases per 100,000 residents in the past 28 days, according to CDC criteria. New ‘Level 3’ destinationsFour other destinations moved to the Level 3 category on Monday: Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia and Romania.