CAIRO – 20 September 2021: Minister of Immigration and Egyptian Expats Affairs Nabila Makram stated Monday that optional life and personal accident insurance will be offered for expats who wish to subscribe. The Egyptian government has introduced an insurance policy meant to protect and support nationals traveling abroad, its media center said in August. An insurance document should be issued with each Egyptian passport and should be used within 90 days from departure, the report said. Worth 300 pounds, the traveler insurance document is issued with each new or renewed Egyptian passport for citizens aging more than one month and less than 85 years old. The traveler insurance program does not cover Egyptians residing or studying abroad, as well as pilgrims and illegal immigrants.

CAIRO - 20 Septemebr 2020: The Environment Ministry implemented the largest beaches cleanup campaign in Alexandria in collaboration with the Banlastic Egypt, the Alexandria governorate and a number of civil society partners. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said the campaign aimed at cleaning a 5-kilometer strip of beaches in Alexandria in addition to disseminating awareness among people about maritime waste and its impact on the environment and maritime creatures. Efforts are underway to register this campaign on the Guinness Records. Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad lauded the campaign as it contributes to preserving the environment, promoting the culture of protecting the maritime environment and raising people's awareness about the importance of protecting the beaches from waste.

Hundreds of people, mostly Huthis and their supporters, attended the execution in Tahrir Square in the rebel-held capital of Sanaa. The nine were among more than 60 people the Huthis accused of involvement in the targeted killing of Saleh al-Samad in April 2018. Al-Samad, who held the post of president in the Huthi-backed political body, was killed along with six companions in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in the coastal city of Hodeida. The British Embassy in Yemen also condemned “the brutal Huthi execution,” which showed “blatant disregard” for a fair trial and due process. The Saudi-led coalition entered the war the following year on the side of the government.

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A court in Rwanda says the man who inspired “Hotel Rwanda,” Paul Rusesabagina, has been found guilty of terror-related offenses. Rusesabagina boycotted Monday’s announcement after declaring he didn’t expect justice in a trial he called a “sham.”He has so far been convicted of the formation of an illegal armed group, membership in a terrorist group and financing a terror group. The verdict is still being read out on charges of murder, abduction, and armed robbery as an act of terrorism. Rusesabagina has maintained his innocence, and his family alleges he was kidnapped and taken to Rwanda against his will. Rwanda’s government has asserted that he was going to Burundi to coordinate with armed groups based there and in Congo.

The reaction in Turin to the Portuguese forward's departure for English Premier League side Manchester United was mixed. But, four games into a post-Ronaldo era, Serie A's most successful club sit in the relegation zone, yet to taste victory in the league this season. Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport insisted the club had hit "rock bottom", while Turin daily Tuttosport slammed the "crisis" side. MENTALITY ISSUEThe biggest worry for Juventus fans from their side's first three league matches this season was a lack of attacking threat. Juve slipped to a shock 1-0 home defeat in their first match against newly-promoted Empoli, without ever really troubling their opponent's goal.

North Cairo Court decided, December 13 to renew the detention of the doctor and another employee for 15 days, pending investigation, in the case of insulting the male nurse. The four-minute video, which went viral on social media platforms, showed the doctor hurling insults at the elderly nurse and asking him to kneel and pray for his dog. The video caused a wave of anger among social media users who saw the doctor misusing his power against the nurse, abusing him and publishing these videos on social media. The doctor called Amr Khairy, added that half of the video is fabricated, and that he never asked the nurse to kneel for his dog. The nurse, Adel Salem, however, affirmed that the whole situation took place as it was showed, six months ago.

Egyptian comedian Mohamed Henedy publically challenged Belgian action star Jean-Claude Van Damme for a “hell-in-a-cell” boxing match set at the Giza Pyramids. “I still stick to my word: a hell-in-a-cell match without laws,” Henedy wrote in a post on Facebook to Van Damme. Yet Henedy humorously set one condition- that Van Damme fights him with his hands tied. After that, Van Damme wrote a post to his fans on Facebook: “I’m receiving a hell-in-a-cell invitation to fight against the greatest comedian in the Middle East…What do you all think, should I accept the challenge?”. It was not clear if Henedy’s invitation to Van Damme was just a joke on social media, or if it was a prelude to an actual event.

DUBAI, Sept 20 (Reuters) – The first world fair to be held in the Middle East, Expo 2020 Dubai, opens its doors to exhibitors from almost 200 countries on Oct. 1 after being delayed for a year by the coronavirus pandemic. The 4.3 sq km (1.7 sq mile) site was desert when Dubai was chosen eight years ago to follow the 2015 Expo in Milan, Italy. Before the pandemic, the consultancy EY forecast that the Expo would over the course of its six months contribute 1.5% of the UAE’s gross domestic product. Dubai still officially expects 25 million visitors, more than Milan received and more than twice the population of the United Arab Emirates. “All major trading countries and powers plan to use Expo to refocus and to redefine their position in the world market,” said France’s Expo commissioner-general, Erik Linquier.

The joint Egyptian-Cypriot training session “Ptolemy 2021”, carried out over several days, concluded in a military base in Cyprus with the participation of special forces from both countries. The first phase of the sessions included a number of theoretical lectures and practical exercises to identify the combat experiences of the two sides, achieve integration between the forces, coordinate efforts to carry out all training tasks, identify the technical and tactical characteristics of weapons used, and exchange first aid experience. The drills also included typical and atypical shooting training with live ammunition using small arms from different shooting positions, as well as simulating storming a terrorist outpost in a residential area and clearing it of threats. The training displayed the level the participating forces display in their ability to exchange and acquire combat skills and tactics, especially in carrying out all training tasks assigned to them. Ptolemy 2021 is a first of its kind military training session between the Egyptian and Cypriot special forces, aiming to exchange experience to achieve common interests and enhance military cooperation between the Egyptian and Cypriot armed forces.

CAIRO – 20 September 2021: The joint Egyptian-Cypriot Exercises (Ptolemy 2021) – carried out by Special Forces' elements of both countries - concluded Sunday after taking place for several days in a Cypriot base. The purpose of the lectures was also presenting the technical and tactical characteristics of the arms, and exchanging experience over first aid. With regard the practical side, participating elements did typical and atypical shooting using live rounds and small rounds from various positions. They also trained on raiding a terrorist hideout in a residential area, and clearing it from armed elements. Ptolemy 2021 is the first of its kind among the Egyptian and Cypriot Special Forces, spokesperson of the Egyptian Armed Forces indicated.

BEIRUT, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s parliament began a session on Monday that is scheduled to discuss the new cabinet’s policy programme and hold a vote of confidence, after a nearly one-hour delay caused by a power cut. The session had been scheduled to start at 11 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) but the lights went out in the building now housing the parliament. When it began, Prime Minister Najib Mikati read out the cabinet’s draft policy programme. “From the heart of the suffering of Beirut … our cabinet was born to light a candle in this hopeless darkness,” Mikati told parliament. read moreLebanon’s financial system unravelled in late 2019.

HONG KONG, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Hong Kong police arrested on Monday three members of a pro-democracy student group, accusing them of a “conspiracy to incite subversion” including by helping deliver snacks to prisoners with the aim of recruiting followers. Hong Kong police have arrested more than 100 people under a national security law that Beijing imposed on the former British colony in June last year that critics say erodes the freedoms promised when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Beijing and the city’s government say the law is necessary to safeguard Hong Kong’s prosperity and guard against outside interference. Wall-fare, a prisoners’ rights group that provided supplies for prisoners and connected them with pen-pals, disbanded last week after Hong Kong Security Chief Chris Tang had said inmates uses items including sweets to recruit followers inside prison and endanger national security. The national security law punishes what China considers secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison.

Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change. “I’m not desperate, but I’m tremendously worried,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told The Associated Press in a weekend interview. Those negotiations in the fall are designed to be the next step after the 2015 Paris climate agreement. While the leaders convene for the U.N. meetings, activists, business leaders and lower-level government officials will be part of the cheerleading in a “climate week” series of events. “You’ve got the world leaders there, and so you can remind them about climate and get them focused on it” said Helen Clarkson, CEO of The Climate Group , which is coordinating climate week.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, people now eat only green leaves for days. In every district of the more than 20 where one aid group works, residents have starved to death. More than 350,000 metric tons of food aid are positioned in Ethiopia, but very little of it can get into Tigray. “People’s skin color was beginning to change due to hunger; they looked emaciated with protruding skeletal bones,” the aid group wrote. One Tigrayan humanitarian worker pointed out that most people live or shelter in remote places such as rugged mountains.

At the Haitian capital’s airport, three flights with 327 returned Haitians landed on Sunday from Texas, according to a US official with knowledge of the matter. “I left Haiti to go find a better future,” said Stephanie, who declined to provide her surname. She said she was taken from under the bridge by US agents to a detention facility before being loaded onto the flight. “If jobs could be created, we would never have exposed ourselves to this misery in other countries,” she said. In a video message released Sunday evening, Prime Minister Ariel Henry pledged to assist the expelled Haitians and bemoaned the “disturbing” images from the camp.