CAIRO - 3 July 2023: In recent years, the Suez Canal has achieved unprecedented rates that broke all levels, especially those that followed the digging of the new Suez Canal. The canal was able to overcome the fluctuations in the global economy after the Corona pandemic and the repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics monitored the development of the Suez Canal revenues in the last ten years, as the value of the Suez Canal revenues amounted to 50.9 billion dollars. • $5.7 billion in 2017/2018, an increase of 15.4%. • $5.7 billion in 2018/2019, an increase of 0.4%.

July 3 (Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, which is being held in Australia and New Zealand:WHEN DOES THE WOMEN'S WORLD CUP 2023 START? * This year's Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will be held from July 20-Aug. 20. The World Cup will feature 32 teams and begin with a group stage, with teams divided into eight groups of four. * Games will take place at 10 stadiums -- Lang Park, Hindmarsh Stadium, Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Perth Oval, Stadium Australia, Sydney Football Stadium, Dunedin Stadium, Eden Park, Waikato Stadium and Wellington Regional Stadium. * The final will take place on Sunday, Aug. 20 at Stadium Australia in Sydney.

Seoul, South Korea CNN — Raising a child in South Korea is no easy task. As a result, the hagwon industry in South Korea is massive, and profitable. Of the nearly 60,000 middle and high school students surveyed nationwide, almost a quarter of males and one in three females reported experiencing depression. Activists say South Korea needs deeper change instead, such as dismantling entrenched gender norms and introducing more support for working parents. Some agreed the private education sector needed reform, but doubted the effectiveness of this move.

European election observers in Sierra Leone said there were “statistical inconsistencies” in the presidential results published by the electoral commission, which declared President Julius Maada Bio the winner of Saturday’s vote. Sierra Leone’s chief electoral commissioner, Mohamed Kenewui Konneh, told Reuters the disaggregated results would be uploaded to the website “in due course” but that it would take time. Kamara has rejected the outcome, saying the results were not credible. The EU observation mission said in a statement that there were inconsistencies between the first and second batch of presidential results, including “notable discrepancies in the number of average valid votes per polling state”. A spokesperson for the electoral commission declined to comment on alleged irregularities, saying he had not seen the mission’s statement.

Iran and Egypt are in talks to resume direct flights between their capitals, according to the Iranian semi-official news agency Tasnim. The announcement comes amid a thawing of relations between Cairo and Tehran, which have been severed since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a tweet in May that Tehran welcomes better diplomatic relations with Egypt. The talks to resume direct flights between Tehran and Cairo are still ongoing, but the announcement by Tasnim suggests that they are making progress. If the flights are resumed, it would be a sign of the continued thawing of relations between Cairo and Tehran and would help to promote peace and stability in the region.

CAIRO – 2 July 2023: Egypt has extended condolences to the Kenyan government and people over victims of the tragic car crash at the Londiani Junction along the Nakuru-Kericho highway. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid, in a tweet Sunday, wished the injured a speedy recovery. At least 51 people were killed in western Kenya on Friday after a truck crashed into other vehicles and pedestrians. According to the Kenyan Red Cross, 32 injured people were move to the hospital. “The country mourns with the families who have lost loved ones in a horrific road accident in Londiani,” Kenyan President William Ruto wrote on Twitter.

The UAE has announced an increase in diesel and gasoline prices, in accordance with the country's pricing mechanism tied to international crude oil rates, revealed the Emirates General Petroleum Corporation, known as “Emarat,” responsible for operating fuel stations, in a Twitter update. Diesel prices also saw an increase to reach AED 2.76 per liter in July, up from AED 2.68 in June, with the price of E-plus 91 rising to AED 2.81 per liter, compared to AED 2.76 in the previous month. The slight increase in in petrol prices follows a small reduction observed in the previous month, as reported by UAE media outlets. Since adopting a liberalized approach to petrol prices in 2015, the UAE has allowed rates to align with market dynamics, resulting in fuel prices that often fluctuate in response to global trends. In May, Egypt’s Fuel Automatic Pricing Committee (FAPC) raised diesel prices by EGP 1 to EGP 8.25, while maintaining the prices of all other gasoline types.

Many policies are directed at transforming mobile pastoralists into settled agriculturalists or urban dwellers. Whether it’s due to climate change, market volatility or pandemic outbreaks, we don’t know what the future will hold. Our work in Sardinia in Italy shows how pastoralists engage with informal “real markets” to confront market volatility and uncertainty. A lifeline to the futureA world without pastoralists would be a poorer place materially, environmentally and culturally. And we would lose a lifeline to the future, where we can learn how to live with and from uncertainty, just like pastoralists have always done.

Intel held a roundtable in which experts discussed the corporate’s adopted strategy in advanced packaging and the capabilities this technology offers its customers. Advanced packaging is a set of technologies that combines and interconnects multiple chips in one package. Intel explained that In addition to cost-savings, advanced packaging allows chip architects to build devices with better performance and more functionality that would otherwise not be possible. Intel® Data Center GPU Max is an example of a product that cannot be built without advanced packaging. The advanced technology also opens the door to many professionals to make use of it in order to come up with better solutions.

Hong Kong CNN — An explosion at a chemical plant in Southeast China on Saturday sent huge billows of thick black smoke into the air. The blast took place at a plant owned by the silicon oil production company Jiangxi QianTai New Materials at around noon in the city of Guixi, Jiangxi province, according to Chinese state media outlet CCTV. Footage posted on Weibo by CCTV and People’s Daily, another Chinese state media outlet, showed a huge plume of black smoke billowing into the air and emergency services attending to the scene. Initial reports suggest that the explosion occurred after silicon oil caught fire, according to CCTV. Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire that led to the explosion.

The number of visitors to Giza Zoo rose to 250,000 from Wednesday to Saturday, the fourth day of Eid al-Adha, the Agriculture Ministry announced. The turnout of visitors from various governorates to Giza Zoo doubled in spite of high weather temperatures. Ragai told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Saturday, that the animal museum at the zoo witnessed a high turnout during the fourth day of Eid, in addition to the Royal Mountain. Visitors also enjoyed riding the trackless train, one of the more distinctive entertainment features of the Giza Zoo, and paddle boats in the lakes region, which witnessed a great turnout during the fourth day of Eid al-Adha, he said. The Giza Zoo features a diverse collection of wildlife, encompassing over 4,000 species of animals, including more than 3,000 species of birds and 369 species of reptiles, Ragai said, with the rest being a variety of mammals.

What to Know on Decent Life InitiativeThe initiative is planned to take place in 4,500 villages dispersed among 20 governorates. That is in addition to digging 249 water wells, renovating 1,486 housing units, and building 3,828 new ones. Also, workshops were held to teach, mainly women, hand weaving on looms, sewing, hand weaving of carpets and rugs, and wood carving. On the front of economic empowerment, Decent Life Foundation and civil society joined forces to fund 1,200 enterprises with a total of LE45 million. That helped finish 97.3 percent of wastewater infrastructure, 90.2 percent of healthcare units; 48.8 percent of schools; and 85.2 percent of roads.

The Viceroy for Cheshire County, UK, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the St. George Healthcare Group, Nasser Fouad announced that he is currently working with a group of investors to establish the first international medical city in Egypt. The city will include an integrated university for medical sciences, an English medical college, a college of physiotherapy, and a college of nursing, the degrees of which are awarded directly from the UK for the first time in Egypt. He praised the efforts made by the Egyptian government in infrastructure and national projects, foremost of which is the Administrative Capital, which is only about ten kilometers from the International Medical City project. Fouad recently participated in the campaign “Egyptian Investors Abroad Answer: Why do we invest in Egypt?”, launched by the Ministry of Immigration to promote investment in Egypt and communicate with investors outside Egypt. The campaign features short videos in which Egyptian experts abroad give a brief presentation and testimony on investment in Egypt, she said.

The management of Sharm El-Sheikh International Theater Festival for Youth (SITFY) -chaired by director Mazen El-Gharabawy- released the poster of the eighth edition, scheduled to take place in November, 2023 in Sharm El-Sheikh. Furthermore, he pointed out that he inserted some theatrical elements in the poster, such as: red curtain, stage lighting and spotlight. He added: Since it is the eighth edition -number 8 is so unique-, I thought of using it in an attractive way. In the poster, number 8 is inserted in a creative and indirect way within the spotlight, along with the actress. The previous edition of SITFY bore the name of the iconic artist Nabil Al-Alfi.

File- The Committee for Population Issues at the National Dialogue holds a session on the overpopulation problem in Egypt- press photoCAIRO – 30 June 2023: The National Dialogue Administration congratulated the Egyptian people on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the June 30 Revolution. The National Dialogue said in a statement that the June 30 revolution was the beginning of a new era with stability, development, and building the present and the future. The National Dialogue also affirmed that the June 30 revolution saved Egypt from the clutches of extremism, identity change and terrorism. The National Dialogue Department saluted all those who contributed to making the glorious revolution, wishing for elevation and further progress for beloved Egypt. Also, the "Dialogue Bloc" congratulated the Egyptian people and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on the tenth anniversary of the glorious June 30 revolution.