Top headlines

• Senior Egyptian prosecutor survives car bomb assassination attempt
• Falcon Group takes over security procedures at Sharm al-Sheikh airport
• Egypt will float pound within hours – Beltone Financial  
• Egypt court suspends block on island transfer to Saudi
• Egypt court orders retrial for 2 policemen convicted of torturing lawyer to death
• Roadside bomb kills 4 workers in Egypt’s Sinai in Sinai

Scene following the detonation of a car bomb in New Cairo (Photo: Al-Ahram)

Main Headlines

Monday

• Egypt’s Sisi promises more jobs to deter perilous migration to Europe
• Egypt’s Al-Azhar condemns murder of Jordanian writer shot over “anti-Islam” cartoon
• Merkel: We need migrant deals with Egypt, Tunisia like EU-Turkey pact
• Russia to lift ban on some Egyptian fruits and vegetables
• Egypt eyes $10 billion in foreign investment as it upgrades infrastructures
• Russian transport minister to discuss the resumption of flights between the two countries with Sisi

Tuesday

• Russia to restore Egyptian fruit, vegetable imports in 3-5 days
• Egypt’s Sisi launches ‘spare change’ initiative to fund national projects
• Egypt hires Swiss firm SGS to inspect wheat after Ergot U-turn

 Wednesday

• Gunmen killed three Egyptian policeman and a civilian in an attack in El-Arish
• New legislation in ‪Egypt toughens penalties on migrant traffickers
• Egypt arrests 23 allegedly involved in migrant trafficking
• Sisi ratifies Egypt’s new church building law
• New tourism marketing campaign targets 12 European nations

Thursday

• Senior Egyptian prosecutor survives car bomb an assassination attempt
• Egypt’s FM Shoukry to attend Shimon_Peres funeral in Israel
• Egypt court suspends a previous ruling freezing the controversial transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia
• Egypt is ‘carefully following’ implications of US bill allowing 9/11 law suits
• Italy’s Eni agrees renewables energy deal with Egypt

Friday

• A Cyprus court order the extradition of Egypt Air’s hijacker Seif Al-Din Mostafa
• Egypt asks Interpol to take Mubarak-era businessman off the watch list
• Serious abuses in Egypt’s Scorpion Prison: HRW
• Flights between Frankfurt and Sharm el-Sheikh to resume in October
• Egypt to ban local sale of air tickets for any itinerary outside the country

 Saturday

• Falcon Group takes over security procedures at Sharm al-Sheikh airport
• US delivers Egyptian Armed Forces a batch of MRAP vehicles MRAP vehicles
• Recently-emerged militant group claims attack on Egyptian prosecutor
• Severed head of ISIS kidnapping victim found in Arish, making 10 civilians killed in one week
• Egypt arrests 3 reporters conducting street interviews
• Court rejects prosecution’s appeal, releases journalist Mahmoud al-Saqa
• Sisi, Bashir to head Egypt-Sudan committee in Cairo October 5
• US Embassy in Egypt denounces terror attempt on senior prosecutor
• Egypt’s women’s council to file complaint against MP who called for college virginity tests

 Sunday

• Roadside bomb kills 4 workers in Egypt’s Sinai in Sinai
• Egypt will float pound within hours – Beltone Financial
• Egypt Air resumes Luxor-London flights after one-year suspension
• Four arrested in Egypt’s Rosetta migrant boat case
• Officers accused of torturing lawyer to death is granted a retrial
• Money paid to ‪Egypt was merely ‘a donation, not financial settlement’: Mubarak era businessman
• Egypt condemns Houthi attack on Emirati vessel

 Good Reports

• Egypt is building a new capital, and China is bankrolling it.Jacob Wirtschafter
• Egyptian president’s solution for crumbling economy: Spare change. Heba Mahfouz
• The flight out of Egypt. Deutsche Welle
• How Sinai women are fueling Egypt’s economy with homemade goods. Rania Rabeaa Elabd
• Egypt MP is ridiculed for proposing that universities should perform virginity tests. on female students. AFP

From Twitter

https://twitter.com/Terror_Monitor/status/781914822971502592

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https://twitter.com/terror_monitor/status/778917889927557120

https://twitter.com/BTelawy/status/782254222469455872

Plus

• New discovery in Matariya points to a King Ramses II temple
• Egyptian couple dons diving gear to marry
• New Islamic year starts on Sunday
• Egypt’s divorce rate at its highest in two decades

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt