Top Headlines

• Egyptian security forces accidentally shoot at Mexican tourist convoy, kill 12 (Monday)
• Egypt’s prosecution imposes gag order on Mexican tourists killing inquiry. (Wednesday)
• Egypt starts flooding Gaza tunnels. (Friday)
• Egypt’s Sisi swears in a new government. (Saturday)

(Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Claudia Ruiz Massieu in a press conference with Egypt’s FM. photo via Twitter)

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egyptian security forces accidentally shoot at Mexican tourist convoy, kill 12 in air raid
• Mexico Seeks Answers for mistaken killings in Egypt
• Tour guide syndicate chairman: Interior Ministry responsible for Mexican tourist deaths
• 11 officials at Egypt’s agriculture ministry are referred to judiciary over corruption charges
• Egyptian tycoon Ezz candidacy application has been rejected by the High Elections Committee
• Election monitors: Candidate applications lower than past elections
• Egypt Tycoon in talks to buy two islands for refugees
• Wasat Party to boycott upcoming parliamentary polls

Tuesday

• Mexico calls on Egypt to swiftly investigate why tourists were mistakenly targeted
• Sisi offers condolences to Mexican president for the death of Mexican tourists in Egypt
• Egypt court sentences 8 Brotherhood member to death
• Egypt could buy French Mistral warships with Russian equipment abroad
• Egypt introduces new rules on foreigners’ work
• 2 soldiers, 55 “terrorists” were killed on Tuesday in an ongoing security operation in Al-Arish
• Egypt’s Chief of Staff heads to London on official visit
• Trial for slain journalist Mayada Ashraf begins

Wednesday

• Egypt’s prosecution imposes gag order on the investigation into the mistaken killing of Mexican tourists
• Egypt FM vows “transparent investigation” into the accidental killings of eight Mexican tourists by security forces.
• Mexico to wait for Egypt investigation before further action
• Egypt’s initial list of 2015 parliamentary ‎candidates is announced
• Political campaigns for parliament starts by the end of September
• Egypt’s new anti-terrorism law put into action by courts for the first time
• Tawfiq Okasha is banned from running in parliamentary elections
• Steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz is excluded from preliminary list of ‪election

 Thursday

• Mexican survivor recounts 3 hour aerial bombing ordeal in Egypt
• Mexico’s minister visits injured survivors in Egypt
• Mexican‪ Foreign minister, relatives of victims leave Cairo
• 25 January revolution graffiti wall near iconic Tahrir Square is demolished
• Egypt’s ‘zero schoolgirl’ demands independent probe
• Police officer under interrogation for bullying a civilian
• Delegation from World Bank to visit Egypt next month

 Friday

• Egypt’s foreign ministry has denied that the Egyptian ambassador to Mexico was summoned by the Mexican government
• Egypt has begun flooding tunnels under the border with Gaza
• El-Sisi reiterates support for the Palestinians in the wake of violence in Jerusalem’s holy site
• 17 militants killed, 62 suspects arrested in North Sinai
• 7 Egyptian pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia‪

 Saturday

• Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has sworn in a new government
• Nabil Sadek swore in as Egypt’s new prosecutor general
• Sisi appoints outgoing PM Mehleb as his assistant for national and strategic projects
• Former World Bank economist heads international cooperation ministry
• General Minister Al-Assar steps into the spotlight
• Obama receives new Egyptian ambassador to Washington
• 336 ships transited the Suez Canal last week

Sunday

• Bomb explodes outside a public service office affiliated with the Foreign Ministry in Cairo
• Egypt police general gunned down in Sinai’s el-Arish
• Education minister off Facebook after viral jabs after viral jabs on misspelling
• Parliamentary elections risk further postponement
• Egypt’s foreign Minister heads to New York for the United Nation’s General Assembly meetings
• Hamas says it was holding talks with Egypt in an effort to halt flooding of the border with Gaza
• IMF advises Egypt to ease grip on currency exchange rate to bolster economic growth
• Controversial TV host Mona Iraqi received a prison sentence
• Egyptian pilgrim death toll rises to 15

 Good Reports

• How Egypt and Mexico communicated the tourist killings. Mada Masr
• Foreign Ministry continues spat with NYT over coverage of tourist killings. Mada Masr
• An Egyptian billionaire’s offer to buy an island for refugees is closer to becoming a reality. CNN money
• Assassination or imprisonment is the curse for amending the Constitution
• New government faces five challenges. Al-Masry Al-Youm
• Elections countdown: 30-days. Mada Masr
• Egyptian Coptic Church to play role of mediator in Nile River dispute. Ayah Aman

Good Read

• A Jewish Sisi, masonic Brotherhood? Egypt’s crazy conspiracy theories are no joke. A Hellyer
• Egypt’s creative way of hiding bad news: Banning Journalists from reporting on it. Siobhan O’ Grady Yochi Dreazin

 Factbox: 

• Egypt’s security forces mistakenly kill 8 Mexicans, 4 Egyptians

Profile

• Who’s who in Egypt’s new cabinet, by Ahram, and by Mada Masr.
• Egypt’s new culture minister
• Egypt’s new prosecutor general

( Three new Women’s Ministers in Egypt’s new government)

From Twitter

https://twitter.com/erinmcunningham/status/644182627197526016

Plus

• Sadat tricked the Mossad with Ashraf Marwan: New Book
• Actors Syndicate chiefs have been granted powers of arrest
• Singer objects to Syndicate’s decision on “indecent” clothing
• Egypt win All African Games 2015
• Fakharany’s performance yields highest revenues in state theater history

 Photo Gallery

• Camels at auction in Egypt ahead of ahead of Eid Al-Adha

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt