Top Headlines

• Egypt Air flight MS804 crash “caused by cockpit fire”, French investigators find
• Lebanese tourist sentenced to over 8 years in prison for insulting Egypt in a viral video
• Egypt opens Rafah border with Gaza, allowing passage in both directions
• Egypt Supreme Administrative Court issued a verdict supporting a number of police officers fired from duty for having beards
• Egypt’s football star Abu Treika has terrorist list verdict overturned but remains on list due to second ruling in similar case
• Coptic Pope Tawadros heads to Italy for ecumenical prayer for Mideast peace with Pope Francis

 Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egypt opens Rafah border with Gaza, allowing passage in both directions
• Egypt and Polanddiscuss Polish industrial zone in Suez Canal Economic Zone
• Moussa Mostafa Moussa, the former presidential candidate and head of the Ghad Party, said he would work to form a nationalopposition party
• Liverpool officially announces that Mohamed Salah’s contract has been renewed

Tuesday

• Egypt’s Armed Forces issues Communiqué 25 on Operation Sinai 2018 against terrorism
• Egyptian Football Association chief:Some Egyptian players could face up to one-year bans after doing unauthorized TV interviews
• Egypt urged to free jailed Ola Al-Qaradawi jailed arbitrarily since last June: UN rights office
• Egypt puts relics recovered from smugglers in Italy on display

Wednesday

• Egypt Supreme Administrative Courtissued a verdict supporting a number of police officers fired from duty for having beards
• Parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill allowing the president to grant highranking military officers impunityfor acts committed between 2013-16
• Egypt’s Sisiannounces a major transport network development plan
• Parking fees at Cairo International airport have risen by 100%

Thursday

• Egypt says has primary budget surplusfor the first time in 15 years
• Egypt sentences former Morsi advisor to life in prison
• EU cancelsadditional inspection requirement for exported Egyptian strawberries
• Egypt will fully pay its debts to foreign oil companies by the end of 2019: Minister of Petroleum
• Egypt pushes population control: “two is enough”

Friday

• Egypt repositions itself as a “global investment destination”amid reform drive
• Egypt’s cotton exportsare up nearly 37 percent as crop quality improves
• Egypt to open tourist-only beaches in Alexandria – to give holiday makers privacy

Saturday

• Egypt Air flight MS804 crash “caused by cockpit fire”, French investigators find
• Egypt’s prosecution summons head of Supreme Council for Media Regulation, issues media gag order on investigations related to the 57375 cancer hospital
• Egypt‘s Petroleum Minister says no further fuel priceincrease in 2018
• Pope Tawadros II and Catholic Pope Francis pray with Middle East church leaders in an ecumenical day for prayers

Sunday

• Lebanese tourist sentenced to over 8 years in prisonfor insulting Egypt in a viral video
• Egypt strongly condemnsattack on Tunisian military patrol
• Sudan to establishtripartite investment fund with Ethiopia and Egypt
• Egypt Football Association Chief insists there is no problem with Salah
• Heat wave to ease in Egypt
• Prime Minister Mostafa Madbuly has pledged to create 900,000 new job opportunitiesannually over the coming four fiscal years

Good Reports

• Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: no breakthrough in negotiations.Doaa El-Bey
• Egypt is optimisticabout new gas discoveries in the Mediterranean. The Economist
• Egypt’s domestic debt: An expert analysis. Safeya Mounir
• Egypt creates Sahel-Saharan anti-terror center. Rasha Mahmoud
• Foreign belly dancers? Egyptians shake their heads (and hips). Declan Walsh

Good Read

• Mideast Christians see Russia—not the US—as defender of their faith.Jayson Casper

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• A petition against Coptic discrimination in Egypt