The Egyptian Meteorological Authority anticipates a continued drop in weather temperatures across the country. Hot weather is predicted over Greater Cairo, Lower Egypt, northern Upper Egypt, South Sinai and the south Upper Egypt, and moderate weather on the northern coasts. Winds will be active on areas of the western coasts and South Sinai at intermittent periods. Mist is predicted in the morning on some agricultural and highway roads close to water channels leading to and from Greater Cairo, Lower Egypt, the northern coasts and central Sinai. Maximum temperatures predicted Friday:Qena 25CAlexandria, Matrouh 27CGreater Cairo 31CSohag 34CAswan 36C

The US and Europe can greatly pressure Ethiopia in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam issue, through the aid they provide to Addis Ababa, which amounts to three billion dollars annually and includes food commodities and infrastructure assistance, the Former Minister of Irrigation Mohamed Nasr Allam said on Wednesday. Allam added that Sisi assured Sullivan about the importance of water security for Egypt. Egypt warned that security and peace in the region is at risk if Ethiopia’s intransigence continues, Allam said. Sisi conveyed the scope of the issue to Sullivan, Allam added, while that the latter affirmed the US is fully commitmed to global security. He stressed that what links Egypt with Ethiopia is the 1902 agreement, adding that Addis Ababa’s main goal is to reduce Cairo’s share and affect its African standing.

Minister of Health Hala Zayed inspects Mercedes Benz mobile clinic vehicle in the company's headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany on September 29, 2021. Press PhotoCAIRO – 30 September 2021: Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed met with the executives of Mercedes Benz in Germany's Stuttgart Wednesday agreeing on the supply of 2,510 ambulances and mobile clinic vehicles that will be part of Decent Life initiative. The deal worth LE3 billion consists of the delivery of 1,510 vehicles between October and mid-2022, while the rest would arrive starting 2023. The conference was held on the occasion of receiving 1.5 million AstraZeneca doses from Germany. As such, the total number of doses given by Germany to Egypt over the past week became 2.3 million.

DUBAI, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid flew to Bahrain on Thursday on the highest-level Israeli visit to the Gulf state since the countries established formal relations last year. He also held talks with his Bahraini counterpart and will inaugurate Israel’s embassy in Manama. “We see Bahrain as an important partner, on the bilateral level but also as a bridge to cooperate with other countries in the region,” an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. In Gaza, the Islamist Hamas group criticised Bahrain for hosting Lapid, who returns to Israel on Thursday evening. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said five memorandums of understanding will be signed, including cooperation agreements between hospitals and water and power companies.

Meeting of Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli and Brazilian Ambassador to Cairo Antonio Patriota in the Egyptian capital on September 29, 2021. Egypt Today/Sulaiman al-AtifyCAIRO – 30 September 2021: Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli discussed with Brazilian Ambassador to Cairo Antonio Patriota Wednesday launching a direct flight between the Egyptian and Brazilian capitals. Madbouli said that the flight will improve the mobility of tourists between Cairo and Sao Paolo as well as economic and trade ties. The prime minister noted that Brazil is the biggest trade partner of Egypt in Latin America given the size of trade exchange worth $1.3 billion per annum. On his side, the Brazilian ambassador showcased that trade ties with Egypt grew remarkably after Mercusor Agreement, which is a free trade one, went into force.

CAIRO – 16 September 2021: Egypt recorded Wednesday 738 COVID-19 infections, and 31 deaths as well as 809 recoveries at isolation hospitals. As such, the total figures became 303,783 infections, 17,294 deaths, and 256,467 recoveries. Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed announced Wednesday that Egypt has received until now 4,424,400 doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccine from China's Sinopharm Group as part of the state's efforts to provide jabs against the pandemic. One million doses of the vaccine were received at Cairo International Airport Tuesday evening from the Chinese company along with 3,000 liters of raw material sufficient to produce 4.6 million doses, according to Assistant Health Minister and Health Ministry Spokesman Khaled Megahed. All vaccines that reach Egypt are approved by the World Health Organization and the Egyptian Drug Authority for emergency use, he said, stressing that all shipments are tested at the authority labs before distribution among the 1,100 vaccination centers across the country.

MITO, Japan (AP) — Fumio Kishida, the man soon to become Japan’s prime minister, says he believes raising incomes is the only way to get the world’s third-largest economy growing again. Topping Kishida’s to-do list is another big dose of government spending to help Japan recover from the COVID-19 shock. Analysts say Kishida, who is all-but-certain to be elected prime minister by Parliament on Monday, is unlikely to stray far from Abe’s playbook of heavy doses of stimulus. Neither did the current prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, who is stepping aside after one year in office. “They’re solvable but that needs a prime minister with a will to act, who has a strategy.”

“Rice is awfully expensive,” Dolatyari said, describing how its price has nearly doubled. With U.S. sanctions still strangling the economy, record-breaking inflation has hit ordinary Iranians where it hurts most. Inflation has soared to 45%, the highest level since 1994, while food prices have skyrocketed by nearly 60%. How is it possible to get by with such low salaries?”Many Iranians say they’re shopping less than ever before. “The main cause of the current high inflation is internal, bureaucratic and executive inefficiencies,” said economist Morteza Afghahi.

Struggling parents have moved their children from private schools, usually touted as first-class education, to public schools. She was once an Arabic kindergarten teacher, her husband ran a thriving food business, and their three children went to private school. But the past three years, to cut costs, she was forced to move her two boys, now 18 and 15, out of a top-end private school, first to a cheaper school, then to a public school. She knows that in two years, I will have to move her to a public school. For her daughter, a first grader in a public school, Sadaka accepted a job there teaching French, which basically pays for gas.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In their fight over trillions of dollars, their paramount policy goals and perhaps their political fate, this isn’t helping: Democratic progressives and centrists say they don’t trust each other. They’ll need every Democratic vote in the 50-50 Senate and all but three in the House to succeed. But progressives dominating the House are promising to derail it by voting no because they lack confidence that the centrists will back the separate $3.5 trillion legislation, which progressives treasure. The guarantee she and other progressives want is a Senate-passed, compromise $3.5 trillion measure that progressives support and can pass the House. “I don’t want to be rolled.” He said House progressives want “an assurance” that the Senate will send a compromise bill to the House.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea leader Kim Jong Un expressed his willingness to restore stalled communication lines with South Korea in coming days while shrugging off US offers for dialogue as “cunning ways” to conceal its hostility against the North, state media reported Thursday. The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency closed meeting on Thursday at the request of the United States, United Kingdom and France on North Korea’s recent tests. It said the “stable operation” of the channels is expected because their restoration was directly instructed by Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un has said he would bolster his nuclear arsenal and not resume nuclear diplomacy with Washington unless such US hostility is withdrawn. The diplomacy has been stalled for 2 ½ years due to disagreements over easing the US-led sanctions in return for limited denuclearization steps.

(Reuters) - A 3-0 defeat at Benfica in the Champions League on Wednesday heaped more pressure on Barcelona’s under-fire manager Ronald Koeman but midfielder Frenkie de Jong said sacking him would not solve the club’s problems. Barcelona President Joan Laporta backed Koeman last week but said the board would not shirk tough decisions if they needed to be made. “I don’t think changing the coach is the solution,” Dutchman De Jong said. “As I’ve said just the other day, regarding my future I can’t say anything,” Koeman said. “Because I don’t know what the club is thinking in this respect, and I don’t want to answer any more questions on this because it is not in my hands.

Two goals from Bruno Henrique -- who also bagged a double in last week's first leg win in Rio -- fired Flamengo into the final, the Brazilians completing a 4-0 aggregate victory. Flamengo will be chasing a repeat of their triumph in the 2019 final when the Brazilians defeated Argentina's River Plate in Lima. On the evidence of the semi-finals, Flamengo will fancy their chances of lifting the Libertadores for the third time in the club's history. Mario Pineida squandered a golden chance to pull a goal back for Barcelona on 20 minutes when he shot straight at Flamengo goalkeeper Diego Alves. Another Barcelona chance went begging on 24 minutes when Luis Leon's free-kick was saved by Alves, only for Leandro Martinez to lash the rebound over the bar.

Over 100 thousand COVID19 vaccines departed today from Warsaw of Poland to Cairo- press photoCAIRO - 30 September 2021: Egypt has received more than 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca in donation from the government of Poland, said the Polish Foreign Ministry in a statement on Wednesday. “The donation of vaccines to Egypt is an expression of solidarity with an important Polish partner in North Africa,” the statement said. Over 100 thousand #COVID19 vaccines departed today from Warsaw 🇵🇱 to Cairo 🇪🇬. Egypt’s Health Minister Hala Zayed said the country has received a total of 33.657 million doses of AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Sinopharm, Sputnik V and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Egypt also plans to release 1.926 million doses of the locally-made Sinovac vaccine between 18 to 24 September.

AFP - Federico Chiesa proved to be a big game player once again with the only goal in Juventus' 1-0 Champions League win over Chelsea which could kick-start their faltering season. Sat 10th in Serie A after a succession of unconvincing performances domestically, Juve top Group H with a perfect six points thanks to a superbly taken winner seconds after half-time from Chiesa, one of Italy's stars at Euro 2020. Juve's gameplan of sitting in and stopping Chelsea from getting a passing rhythm going worked but they initially lacked a focal point and too often let off the hook a Chelsea team missing the dynamism of N'Golo Kante and Mason Mount. Chelsea responded by again pressing Juve back into their box but again struggled to break through the hosts' well-drilled backline. It was Juve who were wondering how Bernardeschi didn't double their lead in the 64th minute when he tripped over his own feet with the goal at his mercy.