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Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Shoukry in Ghana, Tawadros II meets Queen Elizabeth II, Halawa trial postponed

KSA’s King Salman has invited President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to attend the Arab Islamic-American Summit scheduled to be held in Riyadh on 21 May, according to Saudi newspaper Okaz. US President Donald Trump is expected to attend the summit, which will mark his first foreign trip since taking office.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is traveling to Ghana today for talks, Ahram Online reports. Shoukry will meet with his counterpart Shirley Ayorkor Botchway and parliament speaker Aaron Mike Oquaye. A joint trade committee is also set to meet.

Investment and International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr met with a delegation from the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development on Tuesday to discuss funding for a EGP 632 mn drinking water project in North Sinai’s Al Arish, AMAY reported on Tuesday. The funding is part of a USD 900 mn aid package that the Fund pledged to deliver to Egypt over a three-year timespan. The delegation is in town for meetings through 16 May.

Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II met Queen Elizabeth yesterday at the Windsor Castle, British Ambassador to Egypt John Casson announced on Twitter.

From the “Crime Pages”: The trial of Irish national Ibrahim Halawa was postponed for the twenty-third time yesterday, the Irish Times reports. Separately, the Polish Foreign Ministry is reported to be closely following a case involving the suspicious death of a 27-year-old Polish woman in Hurghada.

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