Lorries taking part in the charity caravan targeting the most one million low-income families in Egypt – TV screenshotCAIRO – 6 September 2021: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi launched Sunday Long Live Egypt Fund's charity caravan targeted at the most one million low-income families, and that garnered three Guinness Records titles. Those are the world’s largest food donation, largest medical equipment donation, and largest home appliance donation. A Long Live Egypt Fund official also noted that the caravan offers 6,298 medical equipment, and home appliances. Later, President Sisi checked on the components of the world’s largest charity caravan. Speaking of medical equipment, there are devices measuring insulin level in blood, neonatal intensive care units, laparoscopy devices, and eye survey equipment.

Sadat, Carter, Begin hold hands on the North Lawn of the White House as they sign the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, on March 26, 1979. However, this did not prevent city’s fall and their request for reconciliation, after Khaled bin Al-Walid intensified the siege. 1113 - The assassination of the Seljuk Emir Mawdud bin Al-Tuntkin, governor of Mosul, in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. 1964 - The Alexandria Conference is held at El-Montazah Palace in Alexandria, in the presence of 14 Arab leaders. 1979 - A summit meeting is held between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Cairo.

CAIRO – 5 September 2021: An Egyptian-Cypriot summit in Cairo on Saturday represented a new leap in relations between the two Mediterranean countries, cementing an Eastern Mediterranean alliance. An Eastern Mediterranean alliance that avoids hostilitiesAnastasiades said he updated Sisi on “negative developments” in talks with Turkey that deviated from UN resolutions. He emphasized the continuation of the tripartite mechanism of cooperation between Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece to maximize benefits in this unique threesome. Egypt had already taken significant steps in solidifying ties with Cyprus and Greece, which both have major disagreements with Turkey. He praised Sisi’s initiative to form the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum, which includes Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Italy, and Palestine.

CAIRO – 5 September 2021: ELSEWEDY ELECTRIC S.A.E. (SWDY) announced Sunday that its subsidiary ELSEWEDY ELECTRIC for Transmission & Distribution of Energy signed a new EPC contract worth $16.7 million. The company clarified in a filing to the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) that the contract is to build substation for electricity Company of Ghana. “ElSewedy Electric for Transmission & Distribution of energy scope of work includes the design, supply and installation of the whole project,” it added. Elsewedy Electric operates within the capital goods sector focusing on electrical components and equipment.

CAIRO – 5 September 2021: IHS Markit Egypt Purchasing Managers’ IndexTM (PMI) rose to 49.8 in August, up from 49.1 in July. “Input prices rose at the quickest rate for two years, leading to a sharp increase in output charges amid worries that escalating costs would dampen firms’ profits. "However, PMI data also showed the widespread risk of inflation, as input prices picked up at the fastest rate since August 2019. Consequently, purchasing activity rose at the strongest rate on record, although global supplier delays meant that firms are yet to see many of these inputs arrive,” Owen added. Purchasing activity expanded for the first time in nine months and at the quickest pace since the series began in April 2011.

CAIRO – 5 September 2021: Egypt’s Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait affirmed that the Egyptian economy has become more capable of facing challenges and meeting the aspirations of the people, referring that it ranked second globally in the "Economist" index for the return to pre-pandemic life. Maait stated that this reflects the government's success in the elaborate implementation of the economic reform program, in a way that contributed to enabling the Egyptian economy to contain the repercussions of the pandemic. “In Egypt, we are keen on the stability of tax policies in the structural reforms package to attract investment,” he said. Maait explained that government investments during the current fiscal year witnessed an unprecedented increase of 27.6 percent to maximize spending on development projects. Mohamed Maait, Minister of Finance, and Hala el-Said, Minister of Planning, met with Mohamed Al-Jasser, President of the Islamic Development Bank, who welcomed Egypt's hosting of the next annual meeting of the Islamic Development Bank Group.

Twelve people were killed and 34 others injured in a bus crash last night at on the Suez – Cairo Road when a tourist bus overturned and collided against a concrete barrier. The Suez Ambulance Authority announced that 30 ambulances had been sent to transfer the injured from the scene of the accident to Suez General Hospital and nearby hospitals. Suez Governorate officials moved to the Suez General Hospital to follow up on the injured and providing them with medical care. 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.

The projects, a few of which were unveiled on Sunday, include investing in technology and creating new visas to attract residents and skilled workers. The Gulf state has launched several measures over the past year to attract investment and foreigners to help the economy recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Foreigners in the UAE usually have renewable visas valid for only a few years tied to employment. The new “green visa” for skilled workers will have more flexibility for sponsoring family members and will allow more time to find a new job after one employment ends, officials said. ($1 = 3.6728 UAE dirham)Reporting by Lisa Barrington; Editing by David Goodman and Emelia Sithole-Matarise

The chief of Egypt’s farmers syndicate, Hussien Abdel-Rahman Abu-Sadam warned Friday that some farmers in Sohag governorate, Upper Egypt, are complaining of a worm that eats up their crops, especially maize, which is believed to be the fall armyworm. He warned that this is amongst the most dangerous pests that have entered Egypt recently. The armyworm was first discovered in Egypt in May 2019 within the governorates of Aswan, Luxor and Qena. A single insect can lay about 2000 eggs at one time, which hatch quickly over three days in the summer. The chief of Egypt’s farmers syndicate said that maize is one of the favored crops for this insect.

“I saw a black hole, then I blacked out and I woke up and my mom was leaned over toward me. She was choking on her blood and she couldn’t breathe or anything,” 16-year-old Emily Williams of Wiggins, Mississippi, told WLOX-TV in a video call from her hospital room. The Mississippi Highway Patrol initially said 10 were injured, but later released a list of nine names. Layla Jamison of Lucedale, a 17-year-old senior at George County High, was in the car that landed on the Williams’ truck. Ida dumped as much as 13 inches (33 centimeters) of rain as it blew through Mississippi, the National Weather Service said.

DUBAI, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday Iran was ready to hold talks with world powers to revive its 2015 nuclear accord but not under Western “pressure”, adding Tehran was seeking negotiations leading to a lifting of U.S. sanctions. France and Germany have urged Iran to return to negotiations after a break in talks following Iranian elections in June, with Paris demanding an immediate restart amid Western concerns over Tehran’s expanding atomic work. read more“The Westerners and the Americans are after talks together with pressure … What kind of talks is that? I have already announced that we will have talks on our government’s agenda but not with … pressure,” Raisi told state television. “Talks are on the agenda … We are seeking goal-oriented negotiations … so unjust sanctions on the Iranian people are lifted … and their lives can flourish,” he added.

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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A senior Lebanese government delegation asked Syria on Wednesday to allow Egyptian natural gas and Jordanian electricity to pass through its territory to ease a crippling fuel crisis that has paralyzed Lebanon. “The Lebanese side asked Syria’s help in facilitating the transfer of Egyptian natural gas and Jordanian electricity through Syrian territories. The Syrian side welcomed the request,” said Nasri Khoury, the head of Damascus-based Syrian Lebanese Higher Council, a government-linked body for bilateral relations. The flow of Egyptian natural gas to Syria was discontinued in 2010 because of sabotage attacks and shortages. It is not clear if the U.S. would consider the transfer of natural gas through Syria as a humanitarian gesture, since humanitarian aid is exempt from the sanctions.

And Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that extends to green card holders and Afghans who supported the U.S. government during the 20-year war. Now they fear they will be forgotten by the U.S. government, especially since they are not American citizens. Faizi, whose family got out just before the last U.S. flight left, said he was asked at the checkpoint why he was trying to leave Afghanistan. “Unless we continue and get the rest of our American citizens, and all those otherwise eligible out, we won’t have done our job,” Issa said. “They’re lowballing the numbers.”Rescue coordinator Chuck Nadd, an Afghanistan veteran, said the numbers being reported back to him by 180 Digital Dunkirk volunteers suggest there are hundreds of green card holders desperate to get out.

The first alerts of severe weather blared across millions of phones at 8:41 p.m. that night when the National Weather Service warned of dangerous flash flooding from the looming storm. The weather service acknowledged that in the past, alerts were being pushed out too often. The weather service established a three-tier system in which alerts would only be sent out for the most severe flooding. “So they got a message last week that said it’s really really bad and then nothing happened. And then this week they get a message that’s really really bad — do they take it seriously?” Sutton asked.