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The Palestinian cause, covid-19 vaccines, arrest of harasser among other topics have made yesterday press headlines.
Egypt and Palestine agreed on Sunday, May 30 to hold a series of meeting with the director generals of Palestinian factions in Cairo in order to unify the Palestinian stance.
The agreement came during a meeting between Head of Egyptian General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ‘Abu Mazen’ in Ramallah.
Kamel convoyed a message of support from President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to the Palestinian president, reaffirming Egypt’s full backing of the Palestinian people and their unchallengeable rights.
The Egyptian Authority for Unified Procurement has contracted over procuring 41 million different doses of Covid-19 vaccines to be shipped until over the end of the year, its head said yesterday.
The contracted doses are distributed among the Russian Sputnik, Johnson & Johnson and Sinovac with a ratio of 20 million, 20 million and 1 million doses respectively.
Also yesterday, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi directed that all studies on land reclamation in Sinai be examined from all technical, scientific and environmental spheres, in order to reach the best rates of production of agricultural crops in a way that helps enhance economic returns and establish related industries, while ensuring the arrival of all services and facilities for the new lands.
The directions are in line with the National Project for the Development of Sinai.
The government decided to extend the opening hours for shops, malls, cafes, and restaurants until 11pm amid the state efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus.
The decision, which comes into effect starting June 1, abrogates a three-week decision to close these facilities at 9pm.
The ban is continued on weddings in closed halls and fines are waiting violators.
The Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday that it has arrested a foreign man over harassing an Egyptian girl and referred him to the Public Prosecution.
The harasser, a Brazilian influencer, published a video of him mocking and sexually harassing in Portuguese an Egyptian woman selling papyrus in an unidentified bazaar in Egypt.
The arrest followed a plea of many, including rights activists, to the government to take action.
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