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
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