Driving the narrative this morning: The landing of Solar Impulse 2 at Cairo International Airport is crowding out other stories as scribes lap-up the notion of pilot André Borschberg scarfing down Swiss cheese as he flew over the Pyramids (tweet). The Solar Impulse story features prominently in everything from the Guardian to the Daily Mail, from USA Today to public broadcaster NPR.

Meanwhile, the Amnesty International report on forced disappearances continues to have legs and the New York Times makes note of the deportation of Lebanese TV presenter Liliane Daoud hours after she was fired from her job at ONTV in an article titled “Egypt’s latest tactic against critics: Block their movements, or deport them.” Daoud is among nearly 500 people, including activists, lawyers, and reporters, who were deported, barred from travel, or detained at Egyptian airports since President Abdel Fattah El Sisi assumed office.

Egypt’s economic managers seem to be “cooking something up” and veteran finance writer Patrick Werr smells change. He expects “a package of reforms that could begin to put its shaky finances back on track: spending cuts, more taxes, a devaluation of the currency and privatisation.” If true then this would be “one of the best things to happen to the economy in years,” the problem is that “no one can really be sure what the government is up to.”

Newsweek sees a media furor where not much existed after Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry spent time with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Mrs. Bibi, including maybe (or not) a bit of time in front of the TV screen during the Euro 2016 final. MP Mustafa Bakri thinks the House of Representatives is supposed to weigh in on things in which it has no mandate, such as Shoukry’s visit, though the reader comments kindly tell Bakri to mind his own business. Bakri also imagines he can drag Shoukry in front of parliament for questioning over the trip and alleged photo, according to El Watan.