Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is visiting France on Sunday to participate in both the Paris Conference to support transition in Sudan and a summit on financing African economies held on May 17 and 18 respectively. During the Sudan conference, Sisi intends to stress on the importance of the international community coming together to support Sudan and will go over Egypt’s ongoing efforts in this regard, Rady added. He will also discuss facilitating the transfer of technology to African countries and pushing forward the movement of foreign investments. Sisi will hold meetings with French officials, as well as heads of some international French companies, to discuss ways to advance cooperation in economic, trade and investment fields between both nations. And on the sidelines of the visit, Sisi will meet with some heads of states and governments to discuss advancing bilateral cooperation on various regional and international issues.

CAIRO - 16 May 2020: The operations room of the National Council for Women (NCW) said it received no complaints of harassment during Eidul Fitr vacation. Director General of the NCW’s Women’s Complaints Office Amal Abdel Moneim said the room received many calls inquiring about personal status-related issues, family violence, inheritance and human trafficking but nothing about harassment. She also reviewed the laws and new amendments that were passed in the Criminal Code to provide protection for the female survivors from harassment, rape and indecent assault. She also talked about the newly amendments which toughened the penalty against FGM perpetrators and against those who disinherit women, the statement added. At the virtual meeting which comes under the title of “Regional Support to Reinforce Human Rights, Rule of Law and Democracy in the Southern Mediterranean,” Morsy added that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has ratified new amendments to the Penal Code, per which the data of the harassment victims will be secret, besides other laws combating bullying.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s interior ministry on Sunday lifted a full lockdown that had ordered people to stay home to fight COVID-19 infections, shifting to a less-restrictive program that still involved curfews on weeknights and weekends. Foreign tourists and workers with special permits are exempt. New infections and COVID-19 deaths exploded after Turkey lifted most restrictions in March, prompting the government to introduce a full lockdown at end of April. Turkey’s president said the COVID-19 restrictions aimed to reduce new cases to below 5,000 a day so that Turkey’s vital tourism industry wouldn’t be devastated for a second straight summer. But millions of workers are exempt and so are foreign tourists.

CAIRO – 16 May 2021: In a statement released by the Arab League on Saturday, the regional organization demanded the International Criminal Court (ICC) to accelerate its investigation and begin prosecuting Israeli officials who stand behind "war crimes" against Palestinians and humanity. The Arab League asserted that the ICC must stop the penalty evasion policy and achieve justice that has been absent. The statement condemned the war crimes and Israeli aggression against Palestinians in Gaza Strip as well as ethnic cleansing committed by the occupation authorities in Jerusalem and its neighbors. On the 73rd anniversary of the declaration of the Israeli state, the statement urged holding the occupation authorities fully accountable for such aggressive practices and escalation on Palestinian authorities. The Arab League noted that the Palestinian people still endures the repercussions of the declaration of the Israeli state in 1948 embodied in diaspora, homelessness, and suffering among Palestinians who have been subject to ethnic cleansing.

CAIRO – 16 May 2021: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is heading Sunday to the French Capital to attend the Paris Conference for Supporting Sudan's Transitional Period and the Funding African Economies Summit held on May 17-18, respectively. That is in addition to the heavy weight of Egypt on the African continent, which reinforces international initiatives aimed at supporting African states. As for the other conference, the president will highlight different matters that concern African countries, mainly the importance of bolstering international efforts to facilitate their integration to the global economy. President Sisi will also hold bilateral talks with President Macron to examine cooperation over the past years, and carry out coordination and consultation over regional and international affairs of mutual interest. The president will also hold meetings with a number of French officials and heads of French global companies to examine ways of pushing forward economic cooperation, trade, and investment with Egypt.

CAIRO, 16 May 2021: Al-Ahly defeated their guest Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa 2-0 at Al-Ahly WE Al-Salam stadium, by going through the quarter-finals of the African Champions League first-leg. Taher Mohamed Taher scored the first goal with a powerful shot in the first half of the match, before Salah Mohsen added a second goal in the stoppage time. The second leg match will be held at the Sundowns Stadium next Saturday, in which it is sufficient for Al-Ahly to win, draw, or lose by one goal. Sundowns could not hit Al-Ahly's nets in Cairo during those five confrontations, and their net conceded 10 goals in that period. And the veteran, Dennis Onyango, goalkeeper Mamelodi Sundowns, caused the second goal after a fatal mistake on his 36th birthday, to be a bad memory for the historic goalkeeper of Uganda.

The Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb on Saturday urged the international community to support the Palestinian people in their fight for freedom. “I call on the peoples of the world and its leaders to support the peaceful and oppressed Palestinian people in their legitimate and just cause in order to recover their right, their land and their sanctities,” he wrote on Facebook. “Stop the killing and support the one who has the right. A statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that Shoukry and Bin Farhan are coordinating efforts to deal with the situation to prevent matters from slipping towards further escalation and restore calm. Shoukry reviewed the latest efforts that Egypt is making with all concerned parties to reach an immediate ceasefire and end the bloodshed.

The people of Myanmar must not despair in the face of evil or allow themselves to be divided, Pope Francis said on Sunday at a special Mass for the Myanmar community in Italy. “He does not resign himself to evil, he does not let himself be overwhelmed by grief, he does not retreat into the bitterness of the defeated and disappointed,” he said. Myanmar is a predominantly Buddhist country and is home to fewer than 800,000 Roman Catholics. He also urged the people of Myanmar not to yield to “the logic of hatred and vengeance”, nor to compromise their values. The military has said its takeover was aimed at protecting democracy after a November election that it said was marred by fraud.

Egypt will receive a new batch of new air-conditioned metro trains contracted for the third metro line after Eid Al-Fitr holiday. The new air-conditioned trains are contracted at a value of LE6.361 billion, with the deal financed through a soft loan from the Korean government with a grace period of 20 years and a payment period of 33 years. The new trains have distinctive specifications, such as a high-capacity air-conditioning system and have been provided a safe passage that allows passengers to move between coaches for more comfort in normal operating conditions. It has also been equipped with CCTV installed in the front for the central monitoring of the railway. Inside the coaches, there are LCD screens for use to provide passengers with flight information or used to broadcast paid commercials.

Army-controlled Myawaddy television said on Saturday that some security forces were killed and others missing after attacks by “unscrupulous people”. Security forces would work day and night to bring order, it added. The fighters also say they are part of the People’s Defence Forces of the shadow government. At least 790 people have been killed by the junta’s security forces in crackdowns on protests against its rule, says activist group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. Image; A demonstrator shows the three-finger salute during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, February 21, 2021.

REUTERS: Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has told his players he will leave the La Liga club at the end of the season, Spanish media reported late on Saturday. They trail La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid by two points with two games left and have an outside chance of retaining the title. When asked earlier on Saturday whether he would remain in charge next season, Zidane did not give any guarantees. Zidane left the club in 2018 just after winning a third consecutive Champions League crown, only to return 10 months later. Real host Villarreal on May 23 in the final game of the La Liga season.

CAIRO – 15 May 2021: Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shokry received Saturday a phone call from Pakistani counterpart Shah Qureshi who expressed appreciation and support to the Egyptian efforts deployed to achieve a ceasefire between the Israelis and the Palestinians praising the country's diplomatic moves to attain that goal. The call also tackled ways of coordination between both countries in international and regional assemblies in general, and within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in particular. The solution has to be based on international legitimacy references by mainly establishing a Palestinian state having as capital Eastern Jerusalem. In the end, both ministers conferred over ways of reinforcing Egyptian-Pakistani relations in various fields in a way that fulfills the interests of both states. The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) announced Saturday the rise of deaths and injuries among Palestinians to 136 and 1,000, respectively.

LONDON (REUTERS) - Leicester won the FA Cup for the first time in the club's 137-year history on Saturday (May 15) as Youri Tielemans's sensational strike beat Chelsea 1-0 in front of 22,000 fans at Wembley. Five years after the Foxes stunned the Premier League's giants to become champions, Leicester have now claimed English football's other prestigious trophy at the fifth time of asking. But they were denied by the brilliance of Schmeichel in the Leicester goal. Even when the Leicester keeper was beaten, Chelsea were denied by a VAR review. Leicester players and fans celebrated the decision like a goal and were in raptures again moments later after seeing out a nervy finale.

CAIRO – 15 May 2021: The Human Rights Committee at the Coordination Committee of Parties' Youth Leaders and Politicians (CPYP) denounces the silence of the international community about the crimes committed by the occupation forces in the Palestinian territories, and reiterates its condemnation of the Israeli occupation’s continuing crimes against civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories, which is a new link in the chain of the occupation's violations to the human rights law and treaties. The committee affirms that the international community, especially the United States of America and the western countries, flagrantly employ double standards in dealing with the situation, turning a blind eye to the war crimes committed in Gaza, while picturing the perpetrator (Israel) as the victim. The Human Rights Committee is following with great interest the developments of the situation in occupied Palestine, from the occupation authorities' attempts to displace the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, to storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque and bombing civilians in the Gaza Strip. The Human Rights Committee asserts hat the practices of the occupation authorities in the Palestinian territories are clear a violation of the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention and a violation of human rights that could amount to war crimes and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians. The committee stresses that the Palestinian cause is the most important cause for Arabs, and without reaching a settlement that ensures that the Palestinian people obtain their full rights in accordance with the decisions of the international legitimacy, l peace and stability will never be established in the region.

FREIBURG, Germany: Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski on Saturday equalled Gerd Mueller's 49-year-old German league goal record when he scored with a 26th minute penalty against Freiburg to take his season tally to 40 goals. The Poland striker is already second on the all-time scorers list in the Bundesliga, with 276 goals now, behind only Mueller's 365. Mueller set his record in the 1971/72 season. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="rtl">I achieved a goal that once seemed impossible to imagine <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lewy40?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Lewy40</a> ⚽ I'm so unbelievably proud to make history for <a href="https://twitter.com/FCBayern?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FCBayern</a>, and to play a part in creating the stories that fans will tell their children - following in the footsteps of legends like Gerd Müller <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RL9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RL9</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/4EverGerd?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#4EverGerd</a> 🤜🤛 <a href="https://t.co/G7EYWz88dn">pic.twitter.com/G7EYWz88dn</a></p>— Robert Lewandowski (@lewy_official) <a href="https://twitter.com/lewy_official/status/1393594793511501824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>