The Egyptian Olympic team now faces a difficult situation after losing to Argentina in the Tokyo Olympics football competition, but it still has a chance left to qualify for the quarter-finals. Scenarios for qualifying EgyptThe Egyptian team needs to win over Australia by any result and Spain wins over Argentina. In this case, Argentina will qualify, which is in the lead with six points, while the second pass remains between Egypt and Spain. Since the Spanish and Egyptian teams drew in their first round match without goals, the percentage of goals will be the key to determining the qualifier between them. Any result other than the Egyptian team’s victory over its Australian counterpart will mean it exits, regardless of what the outcome of the match between Argentina and Spain will lead to.

Remember a time where smart bands used to be just a thin band that was tightly wound around your wrist? Those were the days when a smart band served just a few main purposes, keeping track of fitness or few notification alerts. While some of these features are more commonly found on smartwatches, smart bands usually tend to struggle a bit here. This is where Huawei’s newly launched HUAWEI Band 6 comes into play with all of the smartwatch-like features, packed into its more affordable smart band body enabling it to do a lot more than just a band. But let’s look at what exactly we do differently with our smart bands today.

CAIRO, 28 July 2021: Moataz Ashour, head of the Table Tennis Federation, stressed that the goal in the future would be to compete for an Olympic medal. Omar Assar succeeded in reaching the quarter-finals of table tennis competitions for the first time in the history of Egypt. Moataz Ashour, head of the Table Tennis Federation, said in statements to On Time Sports 2: "It is unfortunate for Omar Assar that he faces a player like Ma Long in the quarter-finals. And about Dina Musharraf, Moataz Ashour said: "She appeared at a good level and is a great player, in the 35th place in the world. Omar will play Ma Long at 1:00 pm on Wednesday in the quarter-finals of table tennis competitions.

CAIRO – 27 July 2021: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held on Tuesday a meeting with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli to follow up progress in implementing the unified network for emergency response and public safety services. The meeting was attended by Local Development Minister Mahmoud Shaarawi, Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfiq and Communications Minister Amr Talaat, as well as other concerned officials, said Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady. Meanwhile, President Sisi was posted on the latest developments on the coronavirus situation, where the health minister explained that some 80 million doses of coronavirus vaccine would be locally manufactured by the end of 2021, bringing the total number of locally-manufactured and imported shots to nearly 146 million. During the meeting, Tawfiq reviewed efforts to develop labor regulations and the organizational structure of public business sector companies, in accordance with Law No. 185 of 2020 on the development of work at affiliated companies.

(Reuters) – Vladimir Petkovic has left his job as Switzerland coach to take over at Girondins de Bordeaux, the French Ligue 1 club and Swiss FA said on Tuesday. The 57-year-old Petkovic, who helped guide Switzerland to the quarter-final of the European Championship this month, has signed a three-year contract with the French club. “We are so proud to be able to recruit Vladimir,” club president Gerard Lopez said in a statement. “He has the perfect profile to join a long-term project with the club. “We are sad that Vladimir Petkovic is leaving us, but we are very grateful to Vlado for the extremely good and successful seven years he has given us as a national coach,” Swiss FA president Dominique Blanc said in a statement.

Despite the great difference between the Egyptian and American cultures, she was able to both commit to the Egyptian traditions and assimilate into the U.S. society until she became a mayor. She worked at a hotel, and after becoming a mother she worked at schools. That was a game changer for Alexander-Basta because that is when members of her local community asked her to run for a seat in the town council. Alexander-Basta won a seat and then was nominated to replace the major who had not finished his term. In March 2021, the multi-ethinc advisory board headed by Congressman Danny Davis of Illinois as one of the 20 Global Woman of Excellence for 2021.

CAIRO - 27 July 2021: A 24-year-old from Upper Egypt came to the busy capital of Cairo to find something. It's the same nice ol' story of a young man who strives and then thrives. Taha Abeed moved to Cairo and rented a small, abandoned room on a roof. The room ramshackle and almost falling apart, only to come back to life at the hands of Abeed. The artistry can be seen in this album of before and after.

CAIRO – 27 July 2021: The Middle East’s largest dredger arrived in Suez Canal on Tuesday from Holland as part of an equipment upgrade of the Egyptian waterway. Later, a major ceremony will be held to raise the Egyptian flag on it. Hussein Tantawy’s length is 147.4 meters and is 23 meters in width. It also has a total capacity of 29,190 kilowatts and can deal with all types of soil, including rocky ones. Hussein Tantawy will participate in the duplication, expansion and deepening of the navigation course once the Dutch side finish trials.

Egypt receives the first vehicle of the monorail train for the Nasr City – New Administrative Capital monorail line at the port of Alexandria, Lieutenant General Kamel al-Wazir, Minister of Transport, announced on Tuesday. Egypt has already received Thursday the signaling systems for the project and will be installed in July. The monorail will serve all commuters from Cairo and Giza to New Cairo, the New Administrative Capital and Nasr City. -Its external structure is made of aluminum, so that the weight of the train decreases and its speed increases. -It has screen doors were installed on the sidewalks in front of the train doors to maintain passenger safety.

CAIRO – 27 July 2021: The first round of the joint Higher Committee’s preparatory meetings at the expert and ministerial levels between Egypt and South Sudan were held on July 27, which is considered the first joint committee to take place since signing the establishment agreement in January 2012. This comes within the framework of strengthening joint economic relations between Egypt and South Sudan, and shows Egypt’s keenness to strengthen economic relations with countries of the African region. The Minister of International Cooperation Rania A. Al-Mashat chaired the coordination meeting at the ministerial level with the participation of several Egyptian and South Sudanese entities. Minister Al-Mashat referred to the Egyptian President’s visit to South Sudan in November 2020 and his directives to advance development efforts and joint relations between both countries. It also leads to strengthening Egyptian investments that aim to deepen economic relations between Egypt and South Sudan, which in turn makes room for enhancing private sector’s engagement.

CAIRO – 27 July 2021: The Russian Cultural Center in Cairo, [The Russian House], headed by Alexei Tiffanyan, is organizing a round table entitled “Confronting Extremist Thought between the Egyptian Experience and Russian Religious Administrations” at on July 28 at 7 p.m., in the center's seminar hall. Numerous prominent Egptian and Russian scholars in the field of religion will attend the round table discussion.

CAIRO – 27 July 2021: Minister of Transport Kamel al-Wazir announced Tuesday the arrival of the first monorail train – manufactured by Bombardier Inc. which was acquired by Alstom earlier this year - in the Port of Alexandria. That is within a deal to supply 70 trains, consisting of four cars each. That is because "the INNOVIA monorail 300 system is equipped with Bombardier’s proven CITYFLO 650 communications-based train control solution," as indicated on the website of Bombardier. The Giza section of the monorail is executed by a consortium encompassing Arab Contractors and Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Inc. is also part of a consortium with Orascom executing the Cairo section of the monorail.

CAIRO – 27 July 2021: Sixth of October Development and Investment (SODIC) announced the success of its subsidiary SODIC Securitization in completing the first issue of securitization bonds worth LE 343 million. Securitization describes the process of pooling financial assets and turning them into tradable securities. White and Case's office acted as the legal advisor for the transaction, while Hazem Hassan's office acted as the financial auditor of the issue, and the Commercial International Bank acted as the custodian. The company’s total revenues rose during the period to LE 848.57 million, compared to LE 528.98 million during the comparable period of 2020. As for standalone results, the losses of the company declined during the period to LE 44.18 million, compared to losses amounting to LE 79.718 million during the comparative period of 2020.

CAIRO – 27 July 2021: The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum, Tarek El Molla, witnessed the signing of 4 contracts to search for gold between the Mineral Resources Authority and the Canadian Barrick Gold Corporation, which is the largest of its kind in the world in the production of gold and is ranked second in the world in the activity of searching for gold. According to the statement, the contracts were signed by geologist Khaled El-Sheshtawy, head of the Mineral Resources Authority, with Joel Holiday, Vice President of Barrick Gold Corporation, via video conference. Tarek El Molla stressed that the reforms undertaken by the ministry in the mining sector succeeded in maximizing Egyptian and foreign investments in the search for gold in Egypt and dealing with the challenges facing this sector in an effort to make optimal use of promising opportunities to search for gold and various mining ores. For his part, the Vice President of Barrick Gold Corporation confirmed that it seeks to build a strong and long-term partnership with Egypt, praising the great development witnessed by its mining sector during the recent period, which confirms that Egypt is on its way to building a strong mining industry. Barrick Gold Corporation was established in 1978, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and it conducts mining operations in a number of countries in the world, such as Canada, Australia, Argentina, Zambia and others.

The Qasr al-Nil Appeals Court upheld a fine of LE10,000 against a veterinarian charged with sexually harassing actress Zainab Gharib, star of the series “B 100 Wesh” series. Qasr al-Nil Prosecution had referred the suspect to trial before the Misdemeanors Court over accusations of stalking the actress. On June 4, 2014, a new law was passed which criminalizes sexual harassment for the first time in modern Egyptian history. According to the law, verbal, physical, behavioral, phone and online sexual harassment attract a prison sentence of six months to five years, and up to LE50,000 in fines. The Egyptian House of Representatives is currently discussing more tough penalties against crimes of molesting others and sexual harassment.