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: 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 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.
CAIRO, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The UAE’s Aldar Properties and ADQ have submitted a request to Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) to acquire up to 90 percent of Egyptian property developer SODIC (OCDI.CA), they said on Tuesday. The mandatory tender offer of 20 Egyptian pounds per share would value SODIC at $453 million, said the companies, which are seeking a minimum of 51 percent of SODIC. Aldar accounts for 70 percent of the consortium while ADQ, a state-backed holding company, makes up the remainder. If approved by the FRA, shareholders would have 10 to 30 days to respond, after which Aldar and ADQ would have to complete the purchase within five days, the two companies said in a statement to the media. SODIC’s shares opened at 17.97 Egyptian pounds on Tuesday, before the tender was announced.
Jojoba oil is used in high-quality industries, such as in the aircraft engine oils, biofuels, raw materials for clean industries, and expensive cosmetics, to name a few. The total international trade of jojoba oil amounts to $30 billion annually. In only a few years, the New Valley planted 15,000 jojoba trees. In the first phase, Paris Center will cultivate 12,500 feddans to make jojoba oil for world class cosmetics and alternatives to bio-pesticides to produce organic crops from jojoba oil instead of carcinogenic chemical pesticides. The pulp of jojoba can be used in fodder and high-quality protein products as an alternative to soybean protein.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population on Sunday reported 653 new coronavirus cases, 19 deaths, and 511 recoveries. A total of 296,929 cases have been disclosed in Egypt, alongside 16,970 deaths and 250,304 recoveries. Moreover, the Health Ministry has stated that official figures likely only represent 10 percent of actual cases. According to World Health Organization data, as of September 14 over 12 million vaccine doses have been administrated in Egypt. Egypt is set to receive 5.2 million doses of the Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines in September, Zayed announced.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population on Monday reported 702 new coronavirus cases, 37 deaths, and 588 recoveries. A total of 302,327 cases have been disclosed in Egypt, alongside 17,224 deaths and 255,059 recoveries. Moreover, the Health Ministry has stated that official figures likely only represent 10 percent of actual cases. While Egypt’s Supreme Committee for the Management of Coronavirus Crisis lifted some COVID-19 restrictions back in June, there is talk of reinstating some measures. Egypt is set to receive 5.2 million doses of the Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines in September, Zayed announced.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population on Saturday reported 831 new coronavirus cases, 39 deaths, and 611 recoveries. A total of 311,576 cases have been disclosed in Egypt, alongside 17,658 deaths and 262,654 recoveries. Moreover, the Health Ministry has stated that official figures likely only represent 10 percent of actual cases. The Ministry of Health reiterated warning against a fourth wave of the coronavirus in Egypt, stressing that everyone should adhere to precautionary measures. The ministry stated that there are 10 million citizens registered on the ministry’s website to receive the vaccine, 7.5 million of whom have received at least one dose.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is going into self-isolation because of coronavirus cases in his inner circle, the Kremlin said Tuesday, adding that he tested negative for COVID-19. Putin has been fully vaccinated with the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, receiving his second shot in April. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin is “absolutely healthy,” but will self-isolate after coming in contact with someone who contracted the virus. Asked if Putin tested negative for the virus, Peskov said “definitely, yes.”Peskov didn’t say who among Putin’s contacts were infected, saying only that there were several cases. Russia’s state coronavirus task force has reported a total of 7.1 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 194,249 deaths.
HOUSTON (AP) — Hurricane Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coast on Tuesday, bringing the threat of up to 20 inches of rainfall to parts of the Gulf Coast, including the same area hit by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and storm-battered Louisiana. The biggest unknown about Nicholas was how much rainfall it would produce in Texas, especially in flood-prone Houston. Six to 12 inches (15 to 30 centimeters) of rain were expected along the middle and upper Texas coast, with isolated maximum amounts of 18 inches (46 centimeters) possible. A tornado or two may be possible Tuesday along the upper Texas and southwest Louisiana coast, according to the weather service. That storm made landfall in the middle Texas coast then stalled for four days, dropping more than 60 inches (152 cm) of rain in parts of southeast Texas.
The drug shortages threaten tens of thousands of people, including cancer patients. For the next day and a half, the phone didn’t stop ringing — Lebanese from all over the world offered to send her the medication. One of Shehadeh’s patients, Wahiba Doughan, who has lung cancer, reached out to relatives in France who sent enough medicine for two sessions of chemotherapy. “I found the dose now but maybe later I will not.”In late August, dozens of cancer patients gathered outside the main U.N. offices in Beirut demanding international help. But with the Lebanese state absent, calls on social media have mobilized the country’s large diaspora, as in Mubarak’s case.
