What we’re tracking on 26 September 2016
*** Enterprise is two years old this morning. We’re not going to mark the occasion with cake, but we may just celebrate by sleeping-in an extra few hours next week when we mark back-to-back long weekends for Islamic New Year and Armed Force Day. And we’re very happy to say that we’ll have an announcement after the break about the first of the new products we’ve been mumbling about the past few weeks. Thank you, all for being readers — the honor of writing you each day is what keeps us working overnight (or getting up at ungodly hours) to produce Enterprise each morning.
“Significant progress” has been reached on the resumption of Russian flights to Egypt, according to a statement [Russian] from the Russian transport ministry on Friday. Sources speaking to Al Masry Al Youm, Egypt and Russia have agreed to resume flights “gradually” starting from October. The return would reportedly begin with a Moscow-Cairo route through Cairo International Airport’s terminal 2, which is set to begin operations on Wednesday. Flights to Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada would follow. Sources add that Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov will be in Cairo today, where he will be received by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to finalise the agreement.
Watch the first US Presidential Debate live tonight at around 2 am CLT (that’s 2am Tuesday morning, 9 pm Eastern Monday evening on the east coast of the United States) at debates.twitter.com — and you won’t need to log in to be able to watch. We’ll see if we can’t have the highlights for you in tomorrow’s edition, but given the debate will overlap the last four hours of our production schedule…