<p>A lot of musicians have been using their quarantine to work on something creative and continue creating new material for their fans to enjoy, and the latest to hint that they have something coming is none other than The Weeknd.</p>
<p>The singer revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone that he might have another album &ldquo;ready to go&rdquo; really soon, and the only time frame he gave was that it would be released after quarantine is over, which might be really soon with vaccine news popping up. Then again, it might be just next year after things open up.[article id=6595]&ldquo;I might have another album ready to go by the time this quarantine is over,&rdquo; stated The Weeknd. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m guilty of wanting to outdo my last album. But it&rsquo;s never like, &lsquo;I&rsquo;ve got to do the same type of song.&rsquo; I&rsquo;m so happy I&rsquo;m not like that. My palette is so wide,&rdquo; he continued.</p>
<p>The singer also revealed his frustrations of not being able to listen to his work outside of his home, as he revealed that he used to listen to his music when he&rsquo;s driving or at the club, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic he&rsquo;s been stuck at home like the rest of us.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been cooped up here for the last four months. Usually, you go to a club or you go driving. You hear [your music] on the radio. I really haven&rsquo;t been able to enjoy the fruits of my labor,&rdquo; said the singer.</p>
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<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFR2PFqpeZ7/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Weeknd just made the hit album of his dreams. All that's missing is a chance to leave his home and enjoy it. "I've been cooped up here for the last four months," he says. "Usually you go to a club or you go driving. You hear [your music] on the radio. I really haven't been able to enjoy the fruits of my labor." Read more in the cover story from our special 2021 Grammy preview issue, sent to music industry insiders as first-round voting begins, at the link in our bio. Photographs by @nabil</a></p>
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<p>The &ldquo;Can&rsquo;t Feel My Face&rdquo; singer also revealed his aspirations of becoming a filmmaker, as not only did he work on new music but also on a new &ldquo;secretive screenplay&rdquo; that he didn&rsquo;t want to reveal too much about until it was official.</p>
<p>But while he did already appear several times in front of the camera, it looks like the pop star is hoping to be behind the camera pretty soon.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I just want to be a filmmaker. I want to make great cinema,&rdquo; he stated.</p>
<p>The Weeknd&rsquo;s latest album &ldquo;After Hours&rdquo; was released back in March and has been receiving a lot of great reviews, he even released a short film called &ldquo;After Hours&rdquo; which borrows a lot of the aesthetics from movies like &ldquo;Joker&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Shining&rdquo;.</p>
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The Weeknd teases a new album coming soon and reveals that he wants to be a filmmaker.

The Weeknd Is Releasing A New Album Right After The Pandemic

<p>Singer Lady Gaga knows how to make weird and exciting music videos and the latest one for her song &ldquo;911&rdquo; is no different, as she creates a magical and wondrous world within the video that will leave you confused at first but interested by the end.</p>
<p>&ldquo;911&rdquo; is the eighth song off her album &ldquo;Chromatica&rdquo;, but its music video can be easily interpreted as a short film because of the surrealistic approach taken in the video&rsquo;s execution especially when compared to the final scene where there is an impressive transition that brings the viewer to point that ties all the scenes from the video together into a neat and tidy knot, that will lead many to rewatch the video.</p>
<p>The video starts out with Gaga laying on the sands of a desert where she is awoken by a dark rider whom she follows to a small Mexican town, and that&rsquo;s where the trippiness begins. The singer starts shifting into different hairdos and costumes that can be a bit too much for some, but they&rsquo;re pretty much what makes the video pop, as her dance moves transition becoming a little erratic with time as it moves from one style to another.</p>
<p>We get to see a myriad of different colorful characters dancing around and performing weird and mysterious moves that work with the overall song, but look a bit out of place, and that&rsquo;s what the ending beautifully explores as it reveals that the singer&rsquo;s character was in a car accident and that all that was happening in the music video was in her head, as the characters she was seeing were the first responders, people in the same accident, and ads along the street where the collision happened.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check it out below:</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/58hoktsqk_Q" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Back in May Gaga revealed in an interview with Apple Music that &ldquo;911&rdquo; was about an antipsychotic medication called &ldquo;Olanzapine&rdquo; which the pop star is prescribed, saying &ldquo;[&hellip;] it&rsquo;s because I can&rsquo;t always control things that my brain does. I know that. And I have to take medication to stop the process that occurs,&rdquo; which is something she references at the end of the video as she screams that she didn&rsquo;t take the pills, which may have led to the accident.</p>
<p>Gaga also took on Instagram where she stated that the video was very personal to her and to her experience with mental health.</p>
<p>&ldquo;This short film is very personal to me, my experience with mental health and the way reality and dreams can interconnect to form heroes within us and all around us. I&rsquo;d like to thank my director/filmmaker Tarsem for sharing a 25-year-old idea he had with me because my life story spoke so much to him,&rdquo; wrote the singer.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to thank Haus of Gaga for being strong for me when I wasn&rsquo;t, and the crew for making this short film safely during this pandemic without anyone getting sick. It&rsquo;s been years since I felt so alive in my creativity to make together what we did with &ldquo;911&rdquo;,&rdquo; she continued.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Thank you @Bloodpop for taking a leap of faith with me to produce a record that hides in nothing but the truth. Finally, thank you little monsters. I&rsquo;m awake now, I can see you, I can feel you, thank you for believing in me when I was very afraid. Something that was once my real-life every day is now a film, a true story that is now the past and not the present. It&rsquo;s the poetry of pain,&rdquo; she concluded.</p>
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<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSLpGdDRwT/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This short film is very personal to me, my experience with mental health and the way reality and dreams can interconnect to form heroes within us and all around us. I'd like to thank my director/filmmaker Tarsem for sharing a 25 year old idea he had with me because my life story spoke so much to him. I'd like to thank Haus of Gaga for being strong for me when I wasn't, and the crew for making this short film safely during this pandemic without anyone getting sick. It's been years since I felt so alive in my creativity to make together what we did with "911". Thank you @Bloodpop for taking a leap of faith with me to produce a record that hides in nothing but the truth. Finally, thank you little monsters. I'm awake now, I can see you, I can feel you, thank you for believing in me when I was very afraid. Something that was once my real life everyday is now a film, a true story that is now the past and not the present. It's the poetry of pain.</a></p>
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<p>The music video is a huge success bringing in over three million on Instagram, and over 12 million on YouTube which kept it at the number three spot on trending three days after its initial release.</p>

Lady Gaga releases the music video for her song "911" and in it she goes full "GAGA" and we're along for the ride.

Lady Gaga Releases New Music Video For Her Song “911” & It’s Trippy In More Ways Than One

<p>Week after week we bring you the&nbsp;latest and greatest music on your favorite radio station 104.2 NileFM, and while you send in your requests as well as your selections for your favorite songs, you shape Egypt's biggest chart,&nbsp;NileFM's "Hit 30 Egypt"!</p>
<p>If you want to stay ahead of the game and always be up to date on what's going to happen on the show, not to mention the charts, check out this week's hits below!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>30.Charlie Puth - Girlfriend</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LXRI0vr_zPQ" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>29. Drake - Toosie Slide</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xWggTb45brM" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>28. Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande - Rain On Me</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AoAm4om0wTs" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>27. SAINt JHN - Roses</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XHA-QM-q-3E" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>26.&nbsp;Doja Cat - Say So</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pok8H_KF1FA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>25. Benee&nbsp;ft. Gus Dapperton - Supalonely<br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Rb6Scz-5YOs" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>24.&nbsp;Regard, RAYE - Secrets&nbsp;</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6soSrZBI78c" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>23.&nbsp;BLACKPINK - How You Like That</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ioNng23DkIM" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>22. Ariana Grande &amp; Justin Bieber - Stuck with U</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pE49WK-oNjU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>21.&nbsp;6ix9ine with Nicki Minaj -&nbsp;TROLLZ</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-wts5viH28E" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>20. Lil Mosey - Blueberry Faygo<br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/V_jHc_n0p9c" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>19.&nbsp;HRVY - NEVERMIND</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/iyDPAYKh8zU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>18.&nbsp;Surfaces - Sunday Best</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_83KqwEEGw4" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>17. Clean Bandit and Mabel - Tick Tock<br /></strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yC8SPG2LwSA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>16.&nbsp;Marshmello, Halsey - Be Kind</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/n7eq3E9zE2Y" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>15.Jason Derulo &amp; Jawsh 685 - Savage Love&nbsp;</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gUci-tsiU4I" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>14. Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/E07s5ZYygMg" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>13. Topic ft. A7S - Breaking Me&nbsp;</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jIoEaTN7GGo" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>12.&nbsp;THE SCOTTS, Travis Scott, Kid Cudi - THE SCOTTS</span></strong></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sw4r0k8WWqU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>11. Beyonc&eacute; - Find Your Way Back</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/uj7mPGlpj9U" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>10</strong><strong>.&nbsp;Powfu - death bed<br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jJPMnTXl63E" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>9.&nbsp;BLACKPINK with Selena Gomez - Ice Cream</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vRXZj0DzXIA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>8. R3hab with HRVY - Be Okay</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/IIMAAbArwJU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>7. DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch - Rockstar</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mxFstYSbBmc" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>6.&nbsp;Anne-Marie feat. Doja Cat - To Be Young</strong></span>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5uf7BzRBZwA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>5.&nbsp;Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky<br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/aS1no1myeTM" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>4. Juice WRLD ft. Marshmello - Come &amp; Go</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5Di20x6vVVU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>3</strong></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>. Megan Thee Stallion Feat. Beyonc&eacute; - Savage&nbsp;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lEIqjoO0-Bs" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>2.&nbsp;Billie Eilish - my future</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Dm9Zf1WYQ_A" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>1. BTS - Dynamite</strong></span></p>
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Check out the list of the hottest music on NileFM's Hit 30

This Week's Hottest Tracks On NileFM's "Hit 30 Egypt"

<p>Metallica is witnessing a resurgence in success these days as with the release of their latest album &ldquo;S&amp;M2&rdquo; the legendary band scored some impressive numbers that put them at the top of Billboard&rsquo;s biggest charts.</p>
<p>The &ldquo;S&amp;M2&rdquo; also known as the &ldquo;Symphony &amp; Metallica 2&rdquo; album was actually recorded live back on September 6 and 8 of last year when the band performed live with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on the anniversary of the original album. They then released the new album near the end of August this year to the delight of many adoring fans.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0m6smR-M2qg" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The album performed very well as it was able to outrank Katy Perry&rsquo;s highly anticipated album &ldquo;Smile&rdquo; on the Billboard 200 chart, taking the fourth spot. However, the album was able to bring in 56,000 equivalent albums sold in the week ending on September 3, according to Billboard, which pushed it to the number one spot on the Billboard &ldquo;Top Rocks Albums&rdquo; chart.</p>
<p>This is Metallica's third appearance at the top of that chart, with &ldquo;Death Magnetic&rdquo; in 2008, and &ldquo;Hardwired... To Self Destruct&rdquo; in 2016-2017 being the other two.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1599735794-22.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="388" />The same can be said about the &ldquo;Hard Rock Albums&rdquo; Chart which Metallica is topping for the third time in their career as well. Due to the collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra&rsquo;s, the heavy metal band has also topped the &ldquo;Classical Albums&rdquo; chart making it their first appearance there as well as the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra&rsquo;s.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1599735806-33.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="401" />This chart-topping numbers made Metallica the first group and third act overall with at least one Billibaord 200 top ten entry in each of the past five decades, yes, 50 years.</p>
<p>The band broke in with &ldquo;&hellip;And Justice for All&rdquo; at the number six spot in 1988 counting for the 1980s, the band did it five times in the 1990s with &ldquo;Metallica&rdquo; in 1991, &ldquo;Load&rdquo; in 1996, &ldquo;Reload&rdquo; in 1997 all taking the top spots, and &ldquo;Garage Inc.&rdquo; in 1998, and &ldquo;S&amp;M&rdquo; in 1999 taking the number two spot, as for the 2000s: &ldquo;St. Anger&rdquo; and &ldquo;Death Magnetic&rdquo; took the top spots in 2003 and 2008 respectively.</p>
<p>In the 2010s &ldquo;Metallica: Through the Never&rdquo; took the number nine spot in 2013; and &ldquo;Hardwired&hellip; To Self-Destruct&rdquo; took the top spot in 2016, and finally &ldquo;S&amp;M2&rdquo; takes the fourth spot in the 2020s, talk about a journey, right?</p>
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Metallica take over the top spots in three different Billboard charts with their newly released "S&M2" album.

Metallica Latest “S&M2” Album Tops 3 Billboard Charts, Cementing The Band's Place In The 2020s

<p>It looks like there&rsquo;s no stopping singer Taylor Swift and her meteoric rise to the top of every chart there is and with her latest album &ldquo;Folklore&rdquo; she&rsquo;s been breaking records left and right.</p>
<p>Her latest record is currently tying with none other than legendary singer Whitney Houston, as Swift&rsquo;s album &ldquo;Folklore&rdquo; remained at the top of the Billboard 200 chart for its sixth week becoming one of the two women with the most weeks at number one spot in &ldquo;Billboard 200&rsquo;s&rdquo; history as this sixth week makes Swift&rsquo;s cumulative weeks at number one, across all of her seven chart-topping albums, rise to 46 tying with Houston.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/K-a8s8OLBSE" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The two ladies are followed by Adele with 34 weeks, however, Swift has a long way ahead of her, as Drake&rsquo;s album &ldquo;Views&rdquo; stayed on top for 13 non-consecutive weeks, with the Beatles having an astonishing 132 weeks across their 19 albums over the years.</p>
<p>Still, Swift was able to set a record for 2020, as with &ldquo;Folklore&rsquo;s&rdquo; sixth week at number one it became the album with the most weeks at number one in 2020 so far beating Lil Baby&rsquo;s album &ldquo;My Turn&rdquo;.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vZA5heWazIQ" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Could this week be the end of her reign at the top? We still don&rsquo;t know, as she could break the record with a seventh week, or she could lose the crown especially that there are heavyweights coming into the scene, like Katy Perry and her album &ldquo;Smile&rdquo;, or Metallica&rsquo;s &ldquo;S&amp;M2&rdquo; which were just released recently, and while they didn&rsquo;t debut at the top spot that doesn&rsquo;t mean they won&rsquo;t be able to overthrow Swift, we'll have to wait and see.</p>
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Taylor Swift ties with singer Whitney Houston for the women with the most cumulative weeks at number one in Billboard 200's history

Taylor Swift Ties With Whitney Houston For Female Artist With Most Weeks At Number 1 In Billboard 200’s History

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<p>It&rsquo;s no secret that actor Daniel Craig is leaving the role of James Bond after his final bow as the character in the upcoming film &ldquo;No Time To Die,&rdquo; something he&rsquo;s been wanting to do for quite a while now. And with Craig's departure, questions surrounding who is going to replace him have been circulating.</p>
<p>While there were leaks that actor Idris Elba was considered for the role, speculations later changed to discuss the possibility of &ldquo;Game of Thrones&rdquo; actor Richard Madden playing the MI6 agent. But according to the latest gossip, the role is going to be taken over by none other than &ldquo;Venom&rdquo; star Tom Hardy.[article id=6552]GQ Australia has cited a couple of sources who have revealed that Hardy has &ldquo;all but locked in as the next James Bond,&rdquo; stating their source as a blog page called The Vulcan and their Twitter Scooper Emre Kaya aka Vullian has stated that the actor auditioned for the role back in June, and while it hasn&rsquo;t been announced yet, he did lock down the role, which is what happened with Craig when he got the role of Bond back in the mid-2000s.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vw2FOYjCz38" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>&ldquo;I heard about this news back in June. At that point, Hardy's casting wasn't official but he had been auditioning and was basically locked into the role,&rdquo; wrote Kaya.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It's similar to how Craig said that he got the role of Bond and then months later it was officially announced,&rdquo; he continued.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">I heard about this news back in June. At that point, Hardy's casting wasn't official but he had been auditioning and was basically locked into the role. <br /><br />It's similar to how Craig said that he got the role of Bond and then months later it was officially announced. <a href="https://t.co/iw0HR75WND">https://t.co/iw0HR75WND</a></p>
&mdash; Emre Kaya | Black Lives Matter (@Vullein) <a href="https://twitter.com/Vullein/status/1307072637143842822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>In his blog, Kaya also reveals that it&rsquo;s most likely we&rsquo;re either going to get the news in November or early 2021.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Tom Hardy was expected to be announced as the new Bond in November, this does not seem to be the case anymore due to the coronavirus. Nevertheless, I anticipate the announcement to come out this year all the same. Early 2021 also seems likely, if No Time to Die gets delayed again,&rdquo; speculated Kaya.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Forbes&rsquo; writer Scott Mendelson has stated that &ldquo;Tom Hardy has not been cast, and probably will not be cast, as the next James Bond once Daniel Craig vacates the role upon the release of &lsquo;No Time to Die&rsquo;,&rdquo; so there&rsquo;s also that.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-x08iNZ8Mfc" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Some people are spreading out rumors that &ldquo;Superman&rdquo; actor Henry Cavill was also considered for the role, especially after playing the spy persona really well in the movie &ldquo;The Man From U.N.C.L.E.&rdquo;, so essentially we&rsquo;ll have to wait and see as the only people who know who the next James Bond are the people working on the franchise, but out of all those considered, we can't help but root for Hardy.</p>

Tom Hardy reportedly has locked the role of James Bond after June audition.

Tom Hardy Reported To Be The Next James Bond!

<p>Last night was a big night for TV as the 2020 Emmy Awards were handed out to the biggest stars on TV, virtually of course, with some sweeping wins, a record-breaking one, and a hilarious loss that we haven't quite gotten over yet.</p>
<p>Starting off with the loss, Egyptian-American actor and comedian Ramy Youssef hilariously shared what happens when a nominee doesn&rsquo;t win an Emmy during the evening as he shared a video of an actual person who shows up in a protective suit at the nominee&rsquo;s window and waves as they leave award in hand, it&rsquo;s hilarious and took Twitter by storm as it reached over three million people in less than 24 hours.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">when you lose the emmy <a href="https://t.co/ECkbGcoHBA">pic.twitter.com/ECkbGcoHBA</a></p>
&mdash; ramy youssef (@ramy) <a href="https://twitter.com/ramy/status/1307839905599381504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>Moving on to the actually Emmys, the night was hosted by late-night television king Jimmy Kimmel, who announced the winners from a soundstage in Los Angeles.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6DndjMYBEPk" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The biggest winner of the night by far was HBO&rsquo;s &ldquo;Watchmen,&rdquo; which has dazzled both viewers and critics alike, snagging an impressive 11 awards including &ldquo;Outstanding Performance By A Leading Actress In A Limited Series&rdquo; for lead star Regina King, and &ldquo;Outstanding Performance By A Supporting Actor&rdquo; for Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, whose performances were nothing short of amazing on the show.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zymgtV99Rko" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>&ldquo;Schitt&rsquo;s Creek&rdquo;, on the other hand, made an impressive sweep of all the categories in the comedy section winning seven awards in total.</p>
<p>Actress Zendaya broke a record last night as she became the youngest ever actress to win &ldquo;Best Actress In A Drama Series&rdquo; For &ldquo;Euphoria&rdquo; at the tender age of 24.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Emmy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Emmy</a> for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series goes to <a href="https://twitter.com/Zendaya?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Zendaya</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/euphoriaHBO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@euphoriaHBO</a>)! This is her first <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Emmys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Emmys</a> nomination and win! <a href="https://t.co/blFom9uWQi">pic.twitter.com/blFom9uWQi</a></p>
&mdash; Television Academy (@TelevisionAcad) <a href="https://twitter.com/TelevisionAcad/status/1307871399424319489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>We had a couple of noteworthy moments as well, one at the beginning of the show when they were announcing the &ldquo;Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series&rdquo; they joked on making sure the winner&rsquo;s envelope was so sanitized that they burned the actual paper, but thankfully actress Jennifer Aniston was there to put it out with an actual fire extinguisher but it kept lighting up again becoming a funny moment that was basically 2020 in a nutshell.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/juJE80qiZF4" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Speaking of Jennifer Aniston, we got a mini &ldquo;Friends&rdquo; reunion during the Emmys as the actress reported back via video call along with gal pals Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow who shared a funny moment with Kimmel on screen, stating that they&rsquo;ve been living together since 1994.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BVd5jH1uWRg" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the full list of winners below:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie</strong></span></p>
<p>Jeremy Irons, Watchmen</p>
<p>Hugh Jackman, Bad Education</p>
<p>Paul Mescal, Normal People</p>
<p>Jeremy Pope, Hollywood</p>
<p><strong>Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cyxwfIcDmN4" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie&nbsp;</strong></span></p>
<p>Cate Blanchett, Mrs. America</p>
<p>Shira Haas, Unorthodox</p>
<p><strong>Regina King, Watchmen &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>Octavia Spencer, Self Made</p>
<p>Kerry Washington, Little Fires Everywhere</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ETHv9fZhfx8" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie</strong></span></p>
<p>Dylan McDermott, Hollywood</p>
<p>Jim Parsons, Hollywood</p>
<p>Titus Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt</p>
<p><strong>Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Watchmen &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>Jovan Adepo, Watchmen</p>
<p>Louis Gossett Jr., Watchmen</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qsHC0pYgZc4" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie</strong></span></p>
<p>Holland Taylor, Hollywood</p>
<p><strong>Uzo Aduba, Mrs. America &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>Margo Martindale, Mrs. America</p>
<p>Tracey Ullman, Mrs. America</p>
<p>Toni Collette, Unbelievable</p>
<p>Jean Smart, Watchmen</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine</p>
<p>William Jackson Harper, The Good Place</p>
<p>Alan Arkin, The Kominstky Method</p>
<p>Sterling K. Brown, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</p>
<p>Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</p>
<p>Mahershala Ali, Ramy</p>
<p>Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live</p>
<p><strong>Daniel Levy, Schitt's Creek&mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tK49Z_BpCE0" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Betty Gilpin, GLOW</p>
<p>D'Arcy Carden, The Good Place</p>
<p>Yvonne Orji, Insecure</p>
<p>Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</p>
<p>Marin Hinkle, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</p>
<p>Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live</p>
<p>Cecily Strong, Saturday Night Live</p>
<p><strong>Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4jJYI5FVKcE" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Anthony Anderson, Black-ish</p>
<p>Don Cheadle, Black Monday</p>
<p>Ted Danson, The Good Place</p>
<p>Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method</p>
<p><strong>Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>Ramy Youssef, Ramy</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/w2cbHRTCgQw" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Christina Applegate, Dead to Me</p>
<p>Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</p>
<p>Linda Cardellini, Dead to Me</p>
<p><strong>Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>Issa Rae, Insecure</p>
<p>Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sq9mvbR-vqU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Giancarlo Esposito, Better Call Saul</p>
<p>Bradley Whitford, The Handmaid's Tale</p>
<p><strong>Billy Crudup, The Morning Show &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>Mark Duplass, The Morning Show</p>
<p>Nicholas Braun, Succession</p>
<p>Kieran Culkin, Succession</p>
<p>Matthew Macfadyen, Succession</p>
<p>Jeffrey Wright, Westworld</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Meryl Streep, Big Little Lies</p>
<p>Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown</p>
<p>Samira Wiley, The Handmaid's Tale</p>
<p>Fiona Shaw, Killing Eve</p>
<p><strong>Julia Garner, Ozark &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>Sarah Snook, Succession</p>
<p>Thandie Newton, Westworld</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gw7JaO9anDU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Jason Bateman, Ozark</p>
<p>Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us</p>
<p>Steve Carell, The Morning Show</p>
<p>Brian Cox, Succession</p>
<p>Billy Porter, Pose</p>
<p><strong>Jeremy Strong, Succession &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZCeZEep1KZ0" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Show</p>
<p>Olivia Colman, The Crown</p>
<p>Jodie Comer, Killing Eve</p>
<p>Laura Linney, Ozark</p>
<p>Sandra Oh, Killing Eve</p>
<p><strong>Zendaya, Euphoria &mdash; WINNER&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ze7rqVSGYV8" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Variety Talk Series</strong></span></p>
<p>The Daily Show with Trevor Noah</p>
<p>Full Frontal with Samantha Bee</p>
<p>Jimmy Kimmel Live</p>
<p><strong>Last Week Tonight with John Oliver &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>The Late Show with Steven Colbert</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9Zo3uWBNI_U" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Competition Program</strong></span></p>
<p>The Masked Singer</p>
<p>Nailed It!</p>
<p><strong>RuPaul's Drag Race &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>Top Chef</p>
<p>The Voice</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Outstanding Limited Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Little Fires Everywhere</p>
<p>Mrs. America</p>
<p>Unbelievable</p>
<p>Unorthodox</p>
<p><strong>Watchmen &mdash; WINNER&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6AvSqmqtX7o" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Comedy Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Curb Your Enthusiasm</p>
<p>Dead to Me</p>
<p>The Good Place</p>
<p>Insecure</p>
<p>The Kominsky Method</p>
<p>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</p>
<p><strong>Schitt's Creek &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>
<p>What We Do in the Shadows</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dL8EVXx8Si0" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Outstanding Drama Series</strong></span></p>
<p>Better Call Saul</p>
<p>The Crown</p>
<p>The Handmaid's Tale</p>
<p>Killing Eve</p>
<p>The Mandalorian</p>
<p>Ozark</p>
<p>Stranger Things</p>
<p><strong>Succession &mdash; WINNER</strong></p>

A full list of the winners for the 2020 Emmy Awards.

Your Ultimate Guide To Last Night's Historic Emmy Awards!

<p>International Lebanese-born pop star Mika is performing a virtual concert this Saturday to raise money for the victims of the blast in Beirut that took place last August, leaving 200 dead, thousands injured, and billions of dollars in property damage. Mika will be joined by Mexican actress Salma Hayek and Australian singer Kylie Minogue for the concert among many other big names in the music industry who will all lend their voice for the cause.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I will be broadcasting a very intimate show to raise money for the people of Beirut,&rdquo; the singer wrote on his Instagram account. &ldquo;The terrible explosion in Beirut&rsquo;s port killed hundreds, injured thousands and left many more homeless. I wanted to do something to help in any small way I can.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Titled &ldquo;I Love Beirut,&rdquo; Mika will perform his part of the concert from the Tuscany region of Italy where the singer has a house and studio.</p>
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<p>"There's a lot of anger, there's a lot of sadness," commented Mika on the explosion and the destruction left in its wake during a Zoom interview with Reuters.</p>
<p>The aim of the concert is to raise awareness around the thousands of people whose lives were irrevocably altered by the explosion and encourage people from all over the world to donate money to the cause.</p>
<p>"And so I think it's important to provoke empathy, to show the human side of things, to use music ... and just kind of focus on that human side of it for a moment instead of just the politics, which is ... what happens most of the time," continued Mika regarding his vision for the concert and what it can accomplish for the Lebanese populace as they reel from the aftermath of the blast.</p>
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<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CEI_IXbFFJW/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On Saturday 19th September I will be broadcasting a very intimate show to raise money for the people of Beirut. The terrible explosion in Beirut's port killed hundreds, injured thousands and left many more homeless. I wanted to do something to help in any small way I can. That is why I'll be hosting a very special performance, with some surprises, and it will be streamed online on 4 time zones. Money raised will be split between two charities that are doing incredible work on the ground in Beirut, focusing on emergency response and rebuilding the city - @lebaneseredcross and @savechildrenuk, who are working on the ground in Beirut. The concert will be livestreamed on YouTube. Tickets will be available from Monday 24th August at 10am CET - keep your eyes on the GoFundMe page for further details (link in bio). Beirut has been through so much and the resilience and strength the Lebanese people is undeniable. It is the place of my birth, a part of me and will always be in my heart. 'I __ Beirut' #ILoveBeirut</a></p>
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<p>The concert will be streamed on Mika&rsquo;s YouTube channel this coming Saturday at 9 p.m. Cairo Local Time (CLT), and the proceeds in their entirety will be given to Save the Children and the Lebanese Red Cross who have been working tirelessly on the ground in Beirut to help victims of the blast with necessities such as food and medical aid. Tickets will sell for $10 apiece.</p>
<p>&ldquo;That is why I&rsquo;ll be hosting a very special performance, with some surprises, and it will be streamed online on 4 time zones,&rdquo; Mika continued. &ldquo;Money raised will be split between two charities that are doing incredible work on the ground in Beirut, focusing on emergency response and rebuilding the city.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Mika revealed to Reuters that the performers participating in the concert will be filmed in their local surroundings rather than follow the set trend of virtual concerts that feature singers/performers quarantining in their homes. He believes that the varied surroundings will entice more interesting to viewers of the concert. The show will include several performances from some heavy-hitters including Laura Pausini, Mashrou3 Leila, and Rufus Wainright.</p>
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<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFKjxsRlbDL/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beirut! We are all coming together on Saturday in support of this incredible city, it's people and the vital work carried out by @lebaneseredcross and @savethechildren The show will now feature the legendary French actress Fanny Ardant, a stunning performance by singer @watchoutforthetornado and a very special collaboration with @mashrouleila It's been a pleasure working with you guys @carlgerges @hamed.sinno @haigpapa and @firasfiras__ Tickets for I __ Beirut in bio! #I__Beirut #fannyardant #mashrouleila #louane #mika</a></p>
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<p>The concert will also feature several people who were present at the blast including an infant born at a nearby hospital which was hit hard by the blast. Despite the hospital building being hit hard by the blast, the child survived and has since come to be known as the &ldquo;miracle&rdquo; baby.</p>
<p>Tickets to the live event are available through Ticket Master and French retailer FNAC.</p>

Lebanese-born popstar Mika is rounding up his celebrity friends for a virtual live-stream concert to raise money for the victims of last August's Beirut explosion.

Mika, Kylie Minogue & Mashrou3 Leila To Perform At A Virtual Concert To Raise Money For Victims Of 2020 Beirut Blast

<p>Marvel Fans have been waiting for ages for any news about the company&rsquo;s upcoming projects which have mostly been pushed back due to the spread of COVID-19. One of those projects is the upcoming series &ldquo;WandaVision&rdquo; which we finally got a trailer for recently, and it looks pretty good.[article id=6571]The trailer gives us an idea of what to expect in the upcoming show, as it has both Wanda aka Scarlet Witch, and Vision in a weird and trippy dimension but it looks like they&rsquo;re unaware of the situation they&rsquo;re in. The trailer starts off with a black and white screen as if we're watching on an old TV as the characters seem to be starring in a 1940s or 1950s sitcom, that later shifts into others from different decades, and that&rsquo;s reflected in their clothing and style of decor in their ever-evolving world.</p>
<p>We do see moments when the characters try to break free from the reality they&rsquo;re stuck in and get in contact with others that reveal that there is something bigger at play, we also get a glimpse of an outer world that is monitoring what exits their reality which makes us theorize that they might either be stuck in there against their will or are kept there by a government agency.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the trippy trailer below:</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sj9J2ecsSpo" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Unfortunately, we didn&rsquo;t get a release date at the end of the trailer instead we&rsquo;re just greeted with a &ldquo;Coming Soon&rdquo; line, however, there are many speculating that the show is coming December, as Disney has confirmed in several of its trailers that &ldquo;WandaVision&rdquo; is coming this year, but the absence of Marvel&rsquo;s other projects &ldquo;Falcon &amp; Winter Soldier&rdquo; and "Loki" in them made people think that the latter will be coming to Disney+ next year.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KOIZQkzk-fQ" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The spread of COVID-19 has really messed up Disney and Marvel&rsquo;s releasing schedule as MCU movies and shows are supposed to be intertwined and these delays in production have made the releasing schedule difficult, that&rsquo;s no mentioning the untimely passing of actor Chadwick Boseman who played Black Panther.</p>
<p>&ldquo;WandaVision&rdquo; stars Elizabeth Olsen, Evan Peters, Kat Dennings, Paul Bettany, Randall Park, Kathryn Hahn, Teyonah Parris, and rumored to join them is Benedict Cumberbatch reprising his role as Dr. Strange.</p>
<p>The trailer looks interesting, and we&rsquo;re interested to see what will happen in the upcoming show and how it will connect to the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.</p>

We finally get a first look at what WandaVision will look like in its first trailer.

Marvel Drops A New Trippy Trailer For “WandaVision”

<p>In one small step for constructing an on-screen persona, and one giant leap for reality-television show shenanigans, a newly announced reality television show "Space Hero" will send the winner of an intensive test of physical, mental, and charisma-based challenge to the International Space Station (ISS).&nbsp;</p>
<p>While there is still a black hole of details, like how many contestants will take part and what television network will debut the show, but production company Space Hero Inc. announced that they have already secured a spot for the lucky winner on the 2023 mission to the ISS. The production company will begin to search the world, for people from all backgrounds, to find the most passionate, physically fit, and mentally prepared individual to become the first reality show contestant to be blasted off into space.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>The unscripted show will have the contestants go through a number of challenges, but in the end the final episode will be broadcast throughout the world and will call on everyone to vote for who they think should be the lucky winner of a 10 day stay on the ISS. No doubt "Space Hero" will be one of the biggest television events ever.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UW2Oc3ocwtw" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>&ldquo;The selected group of contestants will undergo extensive training and face challenges testing their physical, mental and emotional strength, qualities that are essential for an astronaut in space,&rdquo; reports Deadline.</p>
<p>"I hear the idea is for the culmination of the competition to be in a an episode broadcast live around the world where viewers from different countries can vote for the contestant they want to see going to space. The show will then chronicle the winner&rsquo;s takeoff; their stay at the ISS for 10 days alongside professional astronauts traveling at 17,000 mph, orbiting the Earth 16 times a day; and end with their return to Earth."</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IiFPwqblizg" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The show is being produced by Propagate, a venture run by Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens, known for making U.S. adaptations of British shows like &ldquo;The Office&rdquo; and &ldquo;Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.&rdquo; Space Hero Inc. will partner with Houston-based company Axiom Space who will supervise everything from the training to the launch pad.</p>
<p>Axiom Space is launching a number of ventures into space to open up a private-sector space for businesses looking to set up operations off planet. Axiom Space is already working with movie production companies to film in space, the most notable being a film starring Tom Cruise, while also setting up research and manufacturing facilities for 3D printing, nano-technology, bio-tech, as well as other sciences that operate well in space.&nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600679593-iss.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="411" />NASA is supporting the reality television show and it emphasizes the educational content over sensationalism, so expect the show to have a lot of references and discussions of mathematics, engineering, science, and technology. However, the show will not be so alienating for the average viewer, as Space Hero Inc. states that they want to find "regular people" for the competition, to prove that anyone with the drive can find themselves in zero-gravity.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Axiom and Elon Musk's SpaceX have partnered up to become the first companies to operate regular commercial flights to the ISS, and SpaceX will be in the running for the rocket that will blast the world's first reality television star to space.&nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600679616-7cdb97_485c1a20ed2f4147ba8ab38283873ef7_mv2.png" alt="" width="620" height="349" />The development of the concept is relatively unknown, but there seem to be close connections between both the United States and Russian space agencies. Both the heads of Space Hero Inc. have close relationships with Russian execs in the security and media sectors. Space Hero founder Thomas Reemer got the idea for the space reality television show from the CEO of Channel One Russia, Konstantine Ernst in 2008. Furthermore, Space Hero Inc. Marty Pompadur was embroiled in a bribery scandal involving Russian security heads while working as a news correspondent in Russia.</p>
<p>At that time, only Russia was flying to the ISS, and connections with the government would have been necessary to get the television series off the ground, however as sanctions hit Russia following the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Eastern Ukraine, many of the contacts that had been made by Space Hero were added to the list of sanctioned individuals. By 2015 as Boeing and SpaceX began to formulate plans for commercial flights to space, so Reemer felt that the show might have a second chance.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600679636-Screenshot-2020-09-18-at-00.45.45-2cb94bd.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="413" />Now Space Hero Inc. has partnered with 72 space agencies from around the world in order to coordinate and develop a global infrastructure that gives this long-shot idea a real chance for take off.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So set your countdown for T-4,920 hours, and get ready for the stream of details in the lead-up to one of the biggest reality television shows for mankind, you know, now that the Kardashians are over!</p>

The new reality television series will search the world for normal people obsessed with getting to space.

Want To Leave Earth? There's Now A Reality Television Show That Will Send The Winner To Space

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<p>This year, after a lot of effort by the government, Egypt was officially declared free of Hepatitis-C thanks to a long and fruitful campaign to completely eradicate the disease from the country. And now Egypt is extending its efforts to help other African countries with the first being Chad as part of the &ldquo;treat 1 million African people from HCV&rdquo; initiative.</p>
<p>According to an announcement released by the Ministry of Health &amp; Population over social media, 15,441 Chadian citizens have been tested for HCV with 715 confirmed positive cases in the capital, representing 4.63% of the population of the Central-African country who are now getting treatment.</p>
<p>The ministry also announced the formation of a joint national committee to combat HCV viruses in Chad, and that the Chadian Health Minister&nbsp;Moussa Khadam thanked the Egyptian Health Minister for her continuous support for public health projects in Africa, he went on to praise the efforts made by the Egyptian teams to implement the initiative.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fegypt.mohp%2Fposts%2F223069119243708&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=747&amp;appId" width="552" height="747" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>But the efforts didn&rsquo;t stop there as during the official meetings the two bodies discussed widening the scope of the testing and treatment to more people throughout Chad and not restricting it to the country&rsquo;s capital.</p>
<p>As part of the announcement, the ministry revealed that a shipment of medical supplies and equipment have been sent to Chad including treatment for both Hepatitis-B and Hepatitis-C, as well as PCR equipment and testing systems to test for COVID-19 and preventive supplies to help limit its spread in the region.</p>

Egypt introduces “Treat 1 million African people from HCV" to Chad with hopes to eradicating the disease.

Egyptian Hepatitis-C Initiative Heads To Chad & Offers Free Tests To Thousands

<p>For those sending money abroad to students, or those living abroad sending money back home, your life is about to get much easier thanks to Fawry's new partnership with an un-named Egyptian bank after receiving approval from the Egyptian Central Bank (CBE).</p>
<p>The transfer service will streamline the process for those sending and receiving money and will make Egypt's remittance revenue more efficient. The new program will also make use of the crypto-currency Ripple and its block-chain network to make sure there's no corruption or lost funds.</p>
<p>The news comes after Fawry becomes Egypt's first tech startup to break a billion-dollar valuation, and the Egyptian government seeks to make banking and financial technology development more efficient and profitable with a number of legislative reforms.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600694135-1597913719-Fawry-IPO.png" alt="" width="620" height="342" />Fawry CEO Ashraf Sabry spoke with Al-Mal about the changes, stating that Fawry will make it easier than ever for Egyptians to transfer and receive funds from abroad. Sabry stated that the service will first roll out in the Gulf, as deals have already been struck with banks in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.</p>
<p>Sabry made the announcement back in December that Fawry was working with a number of domestic banks such as the National Bank of Egypt (NBE), Bank of Alexandria, and Banque du Caire to streamline remittance payments. Remittances became the life-blood of many after losing their jobs during the pandemic.&nbsp;</p>
<p>While the name of the bank that Fawry has partnered with has been kept under wraps, many are confident in predicting that the NBE will be the main partner in streamline remittance collection with Fawry. The bank has already partnered with Fawry on an online payment service, has aggressively expanded its online banking platform since the passing of the Banking Act earlier this year, launched a mobile banking app, and partnered with crypto-currency based Ripple Network, which uses blockchain technology to facilitate extremely fast money transfer.&nbsp;</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dl4OzGHNaGk" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Egypt is the highest recipient of remittances in Africa, counting almost $30 billion in funds coming from abroad going to families around the country. Many of them use money transfer services such as Western Union, but services like Fawry are more widespread and easier to access.</p>
<p>The news followed Egypt's latest determination to allow more space for financial technology, commonly abbreviated as fintech, the Egyptian government seeks to support and develop non-bank related financial technology services for the Egyptian market.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This new room for fintech was made by the passing of the Banking Act. Conceived in 2018, the Banking Act was one of the biggest changes to the financial landscape of the country in more than a decade. The Banking Act allowed companies to perform more financial services without as much regulation and red-tape. For instance, the law regulated the use of crypto-currency in the country allowing for the current developments in the NBE.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4iQGsQnmtWI" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>A new collection of insurance, crowdfunding, nano-tech, A.I. financial advice-based technology apps, and services are currently pending approval from the Financial Regulations Authority (FRA), with the FRA issuing temporary permits to many of these projects to assess their viability before judging their usefulness.</p>
<p>The new changes will make investment, insurance, and other financial services easier to access, which can give users more options for making their money work for them instead of just hiding their cash underneath their beds.</p>

Fawry's new partnership with an un-named Egyptian bank will allow for easier remittance transfer from abroad.

Egyptians Will Be Able To Make International Bank Transfers Through Fawry Very Soon

<p>Egyptian students, as well as students from other nationalities, were exposed to instability, headaches, and panic this semester as the United States and United Kingdom added new, stricter, measures for students studying from outside for political and public health reasons following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
<p>While almost 9,000 Egyptian students studying medicine saw their visas fast-tracked, students from around the world have found their studies interrupted or cut short while attending schools in the US and UK, which has lead some experts to consider the previously thought impossible, if political issues interfere with study abroad programs, how long will the UK and US keep their position as top destinations for foreign students.</p>
<p>While Egyptians polled by Enterprise still have the US and UK as their top choice, Europe and Asia have seen a sharp rise in applications as political and social changes make studying in more stable predictable country an attractive alternative.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600687327-THE-survey-international-students-1600px.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="411" />From extra costs, restrictions on movement and travel, dropped classes, online learning, and threats to revoke visas, 2020's international student body went through a roller-coaster of emotions through the COVID-19 pandemic. As&nbsp;the pandemic spread and last-call flights were being prepared, international students had to make a split second decision on whether they were going to stay in the nation of study or get back home. Some were not even given the choice as many schools chose to cancel their academic year, others who chose to leave faced bureaucratic nightmare filled with extra costs, fees, and fines.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600687391-2646.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="442" />For those who decided to stay, an announcement by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that people should prepare to lose loved ones and a decision by the Trump administration to rescind student visas if students were taking the majority of their classes online stirred up anxiety and depression as a potential deportation was only called off at the last second. However, worries still remain that international student's position in these countries is still threatened, as the US and UK move more aggressively to cut down on international students, as well as providing less employment opportunities and work visas for when students complete their degrees.&nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600687350-Master.png" alt="" width="620" height="237" />Part of the motivation for cutting down on international students was the pandemic, but politics also played a major role as the US looks to limit the amount of Chinese students studying as US colleges. Major technology companies pushed back, but the situation is far from certain for international students as it stands.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>A lack of financial assistance compounded international student's feelings that they were expendable, and that the confused chaotic response to the pandemic was a source of deep insecurity for many international students who felt their position, both in universities and later in the job market, was not as assured as they thought.&nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600687049-wenr-0219-country_profile-egypt-.png" alt="" width="620" height="403" />For Egyptian students, increased economic uncertainty at home while increased political tension in the United States have already driven down the amount of Egyptian studying in the United States from 3,700 in 2017 to 3,000 in the beginning of 2020. The expectation that this number will continue to fall as a result of the pandemic is extremely likely, particularly as universities in the United Arab Emirates did a good job assisting Egyptian students through the pandemic with less than 20 Egyptian students deciding they wanted to leave out of more than 5,000 says&nbsp;Mohamed Badry, Cultural Attach&eacute; at the Egyptian Cultural Bureau in Abu Dhabi.</p>
<p>While the UK saw a 17% increase in the amount of Egyptian applying for universities, 76% of 200 universities in the UK and US expected to recruit fewer international students this academic year, while 64% expect less international students within the next five years after the lack of recruiting, increased tuition payments, and more difficulty in international travel. The UK's revenue projections for the next five years indicate an expected 25% drop in finances as a result of the lack of international students while US universities are expecting as much as a 40% drop for the same reason.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600687489-59bbfaab38d20d41188b6595.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="465" />The issue is not so much the policy of these universities to restrict international students as it is tuition payments. High tuition in the United States and United Kingdom is only justifiable for international students due to the networking potential, the in-class experience, and for the chance to live and work in the country after they graduate. With more and more universities converting to hybrid online classes or a majority online experience, it's unlikely that students will see the UK and US universities as worth their high price tag as opposed to universities in Europe which are a fraction of the cost.</p>
<p>Students in Asia are already reassessing their options, with more Indian universities reporting that students are no longer as interested in the UK and the US. According to findings by the Center for Global Higher Education, students in Asia are looking to universities a little closer to home.</p>
<p>This opens the door for Egyptian universities to retain more Egyptian students and to attract foreign students from surrounding countries. Egypt has embarked on an higher education strategy that emphasizes international universities, providing German, British, and American guided education around the country. Partnerships with a collection of German universities lead to the establishment of the German International University, one of the largest universities operated under German academic programs outside of Germany itself.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600687093-The-German-International-University-for-Applied-Sciences-GIU-AS.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="269" />
<figcaption><em>The German International University will be one of hundreds of higher education institutions in Egypt's New Capital</em>.</figcaption>
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<p>However, CIRA CEO Mohamed El Kalla cast some doubt on the claims of the end of the UK and US's pre-eminent position as top international university choice explaining that&nbsp;because of linguistic and cultural familiarity and the value of an Anglophonic education for the Egyptian job market, no one will be rushing to East-Asia just yet.</p>
<p>Matt Durnin, global head of insights and consultancy for international education services at the British Council, was also dubious about the claims that the international students&nbsp; will decide against the US and UK just because of a rocky time with COVID-19. He drew parallels between the 2008 Financial Crisis and the almost immediate recovery of international students just two years later, and stated that after COVID-19 passes, students will most likely return.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600687521-wenr-0520-covid-surveys-v22.png" alt="" width="620" height="351" />Only time will tell how the pandemic, the political instability, and the international travel situation develops in the coming years, and whether we are witnessing a short term blimp in the US and UK's position as education leaders or are witnessing a watershed moment for new regional leaders in higher education.&nbsp;</p>

COVID-19 has exposed some of the weaknesses of a US and UK based education for international students, causing some to look at their options.

The UK & US Losing Appeal For Egyptian Students Studying Abroad Who Are Looking At Asia & Europe Instead

<p>As research teams around the world scramble to find the first successful COVID-19 vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) has promised Egypt that it will supply it with 30 million doses of the first vaccine that clears testing and proves to be safe and effective.</p>
<p>Nader Saad, the official spokesman for the Egyptian cabinet phoned into Sada El Balad&rsquo;s &ldquo;Ala Mas2ooleety&rdquo; with Ahmed Moussa yesterday where he discussed the latest updates on the COVID-19 situation in Egypt, from the latest decisions taken by cabinet in response to the pandemic to the emergence of the second wave of infection which has many health care officials concerned.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QXj3d1LvWsY" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Saad revealed that Egypt&rsquo;s Health Ministry, which has been conducting its COVID-19 response in direct cooperation with the WHO, has struck a deal with the WHO to receive a hefty batch of the first vaccine to cross the finish line anywhere in the world. It is no secret that many nations around the world are racing to launch a vaccine that will bring an end to the nightmarish pandemic that has changed life beyond recognition for millions around the world.</p>
<p>Yesterday, the cabinet announced that previous restrictions on mass gatherings at weddings, funerals, sports centers and conferences are going to be eased as of next Monday, September 21. The announcement revealed that as of next Monday, wedding and funeral ceremonies will be allowed to resume provided they are held in open-air spaces and that the guest list does not exceed 300 individuals. As for conferences, they will not be allowed to be attended by more than 150 individuals or 50% of the capacity of the premises where the conference is held.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0-AcR5HM1hg" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Yesterday's announcement stressed the importance of adhering to COVID-19 preventive measures to make sure people are staying as safe as they can as we enter the fall season, a time when seasonal illnesses like the flu typically witness a rise in cases, something which many health care officials are afraid will happen with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as well.</p>
<p>Saad touched upon the resumption of group celebrations, explaining that they can only be held at tourist establishments or hotels which have obtained a health and safety certificate from the government.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BLO_7W3rEXw" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>As to the portion of wedding/funeral celebrations that are typically held on the premises of a mosque, Saad explained that they will have to be held outside of prayer times and for visitors to adhere to a 50% capacity rule still being applied at various kinds of establishments all over the country.[article id=6530]&ldquo;Today we discussed a plan to prepare for the possible second wave of coronavirus,&rdquo; said Saad, noting that the winter season will witness an uptick in cases of seasonal flu and COVID-19, reiterating what many health care professionals around the world have speculated would happen.</p>
<p>Egypt began the third phase of testing a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine that is currently in development and the Health Ministry issued a wide call for test subjects earlier this week. The clinical trials in question are being conducted in several Arab countries and a reported 45,000 Egyptians are participating.</p>
<p>According to a recent report by France24, China has four&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;vaccines in the final stage of clinical trials. At least three of those have already been offered to essential workers under an emergency use programme launched back in July.&nbsp;</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fegypt.mohp%2Fposts%2F221428092741144&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=431&amp;appId" width="552" height="431" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>As of today, Egypt's COVID-19 case count is at 101,177 after the Health Ministry disclosed 168 new cases yesterday. The death toll reached 5661 after another 13 people succumbed to the illness yesterday. 84,969 patients have recovered and been released from isolation facilities since the pandemic began</p>

Cabinet spokesman Nader Saad reveals that Egypt will receive 30 million doses of first COVID-19 to be completed anywhere in the world.

Egypt To Receive 30 Million Doses Of First COVID-19 Vaccine To Cross The Finish Line From WHO

<p>Egypt&rsquo;s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) released some of the COVID-19 infection rate figures for Egypt, and the statistics reveal some interesting anomalies in the course of the infection.</p>
<p>The statistics show that older men were more likely to both contract COVID-19 and to die from it, however Egypt&rsquo;s death rate from the infection was still relatively low, ranking between Australia, Indonesia, and Kenya.</p>
<p>With such irregularities in infection distribution, Egypt&rsquo;s numbers might prove to be important to research the nature of COVID-19.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600166186-640.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="388" />CAPMAS released some of the stats on Egypt&rsquo;s outbreak of COVID-19, giving a month-by-month look at how the infection progressed and changed through the months.</p>
<p>One of the key takeaways from the CAPMAS report was the stark difference between male and female fatalities. Men were 29% more likely to die from COVID-19. Even the course of the infection was lopsided, initially there was a relatively even number of new infections between men and women, by the fifth week men had surpassed women considerable, but by the fifteenth week the numbers had evened out again.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600166059-Quarntine-1.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="446" />While the reason for the disparity was not discussed by CAPMAS, it is likely due to the fact that men are more likely to venture outside the home, more likely to smoke, and</p>
<p>Globally, twice as many men than women have died from COVID-19, with some areas in Italy reporting that men are four times more likely to die of the illness than women.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600166001-5e47108c4b661b65e976d51e.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="413" />While some analysts are chalking the difference up to biological issues, with some research agencies in the US experimenting on injecting estrogen into men to see if it effected the course of the virus, others have highlighted social issues. For instance, a hospital in China accounted for the disproportionate level of infection and fatality in men by showing that men were in worse health than women. The Chinese researchers thought that the issue might be smoking, with men far more likely than women to be heavy smokers.</p>
<p>However, Iran had an equal level of deaths and infection between men and women with its numbers matching Canada&rsquo;s, which would seem to invalidate the theory that men being outside more is a driver of infection.</p>
<p>In the US, Harvard researchers were stumped by the fact that Florida and New York had similar gender discrepancies, as Florida is considered less gender equal than New York, but metropolitan California had a gender equal fatality spread, as did farming Iowa, Tennessee, and Hawaii.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600165777-1595149241-BeFunky-collage_55.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="443" />Less surprising was the age demographic numbers, men over the age of 65 made up about half of all of Egypt&rsquo;s fatalities, 46-65 made up 41% of deaths, people under the age of 15 make up 0.06 of fatalities.</p>
<p>Also unsurprising was the cities most effected by COVID-19 in Egypt, Cairo, Giza, and Alexandria led the numbers, while the Western Desert did not report a single case of COVID until 9 weeks after the first infection.</p>
<p>Despite the high numbers in Egypt&rsquo;s main cities, these infections gradually rose whereas Daqahleya, Damietta, and Minya governorates reported the highest rate of growth of infections, as the pandemic spread quickly in these regions, it was rose more gradually in the main urban centers.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600165744-Untitled.png" alt="" width="620" height="403" />The CAPMAS numbers shows the rate of infection slowed considerably in the main cities after the March 4th precautionary measures enacted by the government such as evening curfews and mandatory masks in public areas.</p>
<p>Egypt ranked 26th globally in terms of the number of people infected, but far lower when looking at the infections per one million people. Due to Egypt&rsquo;s high population, the majority of whom live in rural areas, Egypt reported a relatively low 985 infections per million.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600165759-1200px-COVID-19-Egypt-log.svg.png" alt="" width="620" height="465" />The numbers indicate that only 0.1% of the Egyptian population was infected, far below the world leader Qatar who reported 4.1%.</p>
<p>Egypt ranks second in Africa when comparing fatalities between South Africa and Egypt.</p>
<p>Egypt has reported 101,009 infections by September 13th and despite witnessing a slight increase in the daily number of infections in August, Egypt&rsquo;s infection rate is still well below the intial months of the pandemic.</p>

Men were far more affected by women in the COVID-19 pandemic, says report by CAPMAS.

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<p>The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is set to be a marvel when it finally opens its door becoming the biggest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization having some of Egypt&rsquo;s most precious artifacts, and just a couple of days ago the museum received an impressive 2,000 artifacts to add to its already huge collection.</p>
<p>In an announcement on the official Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Facebook page, the ministry revealed that 2,000 ancient artifacts with varying shapes and sizes have been sent to the GEM from various locations including the Egyptian Museum, the Museum&rsquo;s storage in Tal El-Yahoudeya, and the Giza Pyramids antiquities area. These new additions will be filtered and spread out so that they can be displayed for visitors in different halls.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600606852-119808491_3418992861479673_6024644626058776225_o.jpg" alt="" />Major General Atef Moftah, General Supervisor of the Grand Museum revealed that the total number of received artifacts and relics at the GEM has reached a staggering 54,000 artifacts, elaborating that among the recent additions are two columns of pink granite of King Ramses II, each of towering six meters high and weighing 13 tons.</p>
<p>Moftah explained that they were very important as they will be placed on the &ldquo;Great Stairs&rdquo; at the museum and are set to be the last of the huge architectural elements added to the stairs.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600606840-119977574_3418993248146301_8528385842596852254_n.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="865" />Dr. Al-Tayyib Abbas, Director General of Archaeological Affairs at the Grand Egyptian Museum, stated that the aforementioned pieces include &ldquo;54 artifacts from the King Tutankhamun collection that contain a group of gold jewelry and necklaces, as well as a gilded wood statue depicting King Tutankhamun on the back of a leopard.&rdquo;.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The king is shown standing, his left leg advancing towards his right on a rectangular base fixed on the back of the leopard. [The young Pharaoh] is holding a stick in one hand and a club in the other. He&rsquo;s wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt, and on his forehead is the uraeus and a wide necklace that covers his chest and shoulders and ends with a row of beads,&rdquo; he continued.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600606884-119982310_3418992984812994_3393584720169258140_o.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="1275" />Dr. Issa Zidan, Director General of the Executive Affairs for Restoration and Transfer of Antiquities at the Grand Egyptian Museum, explained that the &ldquo;process of receiving and relocating antiquities is proceeding according to the specified schedule&rdquo; which is in accordance to the museum's opening, scheduled to open next year.</p>
<p>Zidan also added that 47 wooden pieces were also transferred from the second Khufu boat in the pyramid to become This brings the total number of pieces that were transferred to the Grand Museum, 1053 pieces of wood.</p>
<p>The GEM is shaping up to be an exciting addition to Egypt&rsquo;s robust tourist attractions, which is already on the rise after getting a hit due to the spread of COVID-19, so things are looking up, and with the GEM in place, Egypt is set to get a boost both Tourism and economy-wise.</p>

Grand Egyptian Museum just recieved 2,000 new artifacts bringing it up to a total of a staggering 54,000 relics.

The Grand Egyptian Museum Adds 2,000 Ancient Artifacts To Its Massive Collection

<p>Without a doubt, tourism is one of the biggest players in our beloved country&rsquo;s economy, and it&rsquo;s one of the main venues hit the most due to the spread of COVID-19 all over the world, however, with the latest developments, things are looking up as according to Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled Al-Anani.</p>
<p>Minister Al-Anani revealed at a press conference in the German capital Berlin that 250,000 tourists from 15 countries visited Sharm El-Shiekh and Hurghada since July 1, and it&rsquo;s all thanks to the safety and precautionary measures the country has provided against the novel coronavirus. The minister also elaborated that Egypt was and still is a top traveling destination for many German tourists.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600587598-119739832_3416335411745418_1755061596096307564_n.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="465" />Dr. Al-Anani&rsquo;s trip came within the framework of intensive efforts to resume the German tourism movement coming to Egyptian tourist destinations, which included an extensive and varied program of meetings with tourism officials in Germany, the heads of councils of major companies, and German tourist unions.</p>
<p>One of the aforementioned meetings included a meeting with met Ambassador Miguel Berger, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in Germany where he praised the relations between Egypt and Germany in different fields, noting that Egypt always welcomes German tourists.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600587588-119734887_3416336335078659_2112692821523896650_n.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="826" />The&nbsp; Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, also held a bilateral meeting today with Mr. Sebastian M&uuml;ntsenmeier, Chairman of the Tourism Committee of the German Bundestag, where he talked about Egypt's successful experience in resuming inbound tourism in the tourist cities of the Red Sea and South Sinai governorates &rdquo;especially in light of the commitment to apply health safety measures and controls to preserve the health of citizens, tourists, and workers in the sector&rdquo;.</p>
<p>This visit comes after the end of his visit to the Georgian capital Tbilisi to participate in the 112th session of the Executive Council of the World Tourism Organization, Dr. Al-Anani&rsquo;s trip to Berlin is the first visit of an Egyptian official to the state of Germany after the emerging Coronavirus crisis.</p>
<p>These are good signs that our tourism is getting healthier with time, and with continued efforts by the country's government and other world leaders to expand and develop measures during this world wide pandemic.</p>

Minister Al-Anani revealed at a press conference in the German capital Berlin that 250,000 tourists from 15 countries visited Sharm El-Shiekh and Hurghada since July 1.

Egyptian Tourism On The Rise As 250,000 Tourists From 15 Countries Have Visited Sharm El-Shiekh & Hurghada Since July 1st

<p>It&rsquo;s hard to imagine what life was like four thousand years ago, many children cannot even connect to a time when there were no smartphones, much less an age when there was no Facebook; how would we even know about the lives of others without it?</p>
<p>A new Ancient Egyptian exhibition at the Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada is attempting to impart its viewers with an understanding of Ancient Egypt&rsquo;s society through the use of modern technology, so that we might be able to better understand the world in which they lived in to an unprecedented degree.</p>
<p>The exhibition will look at the happiness and the suffering of six regular, every day Ancient Egyptians with the use of technology that leaves the wrappings on the mummified civilians.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600342504-image.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="349" />&ldquo;This is not an exhibition of the royal goods, the Pharaohs and the Queens,&rdquo; says Dr. Krzysztof Grzymski, Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. &ldquo;This is an exhibition about the life and deaths of ordinary people.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Egyptian Mummies: Ancient Lives, New Discoveries&rdquo; is the latest exhibit coming to the Royal Ontario Museum. It focuses on six mummified Egyptians, exploring their lives and some of their problems that lead to their deaths, all through the use of modern tech that does not invade the integrity of the pieces.</p>
<p>&ldquo;You learn about their biography, and then it expands into the daily ephemera that would have made up their life,&rdquo; explains Laura Robb, Interpretive Planner at The ROM.</p>
<p>&ldquo;What we tried to do with this exhibition is try to understand how those individuals lived in ancient times,&rdquo; says Dr. Marie Vandenbeusch, Project Curator at the British Museum. &ldquo;How they died, and how they were prepared using all sorts of recent technologies.&rdquo;</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600342524-image-jpg.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="349" />One of those recent technologies is a 3D CT scanner that can get close to the mummified remains without unwrapping them.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We actually know relatively little about mummification, so we&rsquo;ve been able to share insights about their lives,&rdquo; says Dr. Daniel Antoine, curator of Bioarchaeology at the British Museum. &ldquo;We were able to find out the mummy Tamut had a risk of cardiovascular disease. By doing this research we can show that people over 2,000 years ago were suffering from the same conditions we do today.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In addition to showing how the mummies may have suffered in life, the researchers were also able to demonstrate some of the ways that the Ancient Egyptians enjoyed life.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600342543-image_1.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="349" />&ldquo;They were drinking wine and beer, they were eating fruits, they had toys like children,&rdquo; Grzymski tells CTV News Toronto. &ldquo;So the exhibition brings back to life not the six individuals, but their lifestyle.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Egyptian Mummies: Ancient Lives, New Discoveries&rdquo; was curated by The British Museum but due to the global pandemic the curators have yet to see their own exhibition in their country.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re both really sad not to be in Toronto right now,&rdquo; says Vandenbeusch.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Unfortunately in this current climate we can&rsquo;t,&rdquo; Antoine agrees. &ldquo;But it&rsquo;s a privilege to be able to share our work and our research.&rdquo;</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600343008-ancient-Egypt-perfume-cones.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="383" />However, Antoine and Vandenbeusch were sure that attending the event would be well worth it for residents of Ontario and anyone willing to make the trek to see the Pharaohs.</p>
<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s really what we want visitors to get, this connection between people who lived thousands of years ago, and where we are today,&rdquo; explains Robb.</p>
<p>The exhibition will last for six months, so there might be a chance that Antoine, Vandenbeusch, and anyone else who might find themselves around the Ontario area will have enough time to see the exhibition.</p>
<p>Egypt&rsquo;s most impressive artifacts are still on tour as Egypt drums up interest for the grand opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) which will compile all of Egypt&rsquo;s great artifacts in one place.</p>
<p>The GEM is expected to be opened later this year if all goes well with the pandemic, however, news of the progress has been a closely guarded secret with many predicting the announced opening to be a big surprise moment.</p>

The Royal Ontario Museum's new Ancient Egypt exhibit unwraps the secrets of the daily lives of the normal Egyptians like never before.

New Exhibit In Toronto Uses Modern Tech To Uncover The Secret Daily Lives Of Ancient Egyptians

<p>A child born on September 4th, 2014, and another born on August 24th, 2015, might find themselves in the same kindergarten class. However, the first child is 20% older than the second, and that will have huge implications as the two move forward in life, says a new body of research surrounding the concept of the "Relative Age Effect".</p>
<p>If you remember from when you were younger, being a few months older than a classmate had a big impact on the way you thought of yourself and those around you. Now, research is showing that older children in the same grade will do statistically better than younger children in terms of scholastic achievement.</p>
<p>Being almost a year older in kindergarten means that the older child&rsquo;s brain, muscles, and confidence levels are more developed than their younger peers. While the relative difference will even out as they grow up, that initial leg up proves decisive.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1599740709-rae-visual.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="388" />A meta-analysis of studies taken from 2006 to the present has just been released, and the accumulated studies point to the fact that older children in the same class will have an advantage in sports, academics, career success that will persist for the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>First, studies show that kids who have an advantage in the relative age effect are more likely to be on their school&rsquo;s sports teams, suggesting that their success in sports teams stems from their more developed muscles, making them statistically stronger and faster.</p>
<p>The fact that children with the advantage of a few months over their competitors will have more developed brains means they're more likely to outperform their peers academically as well.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1599740737-713519677d002c5aa85ee5509f4d7b04.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="620" />"The youngest members of each cohort score 4&ndash;12 percentiles lower than the oldest members in grade four and 2&ndash;9 percentiles lower in grade eight," economists at UC-Santa Barbara reported. "In fact, data from Canada and the United States show that the youngest members of each cohort are even less likely to attend university."</p>
<p>This will have a knock-on effect of making them the first pick for sports teams or being placed into &ldquo;gifted&rdquo; classes simply based on being judged by comparison. This will promote confidence, and open up opportunities in the long term.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1599740364-520395_5_.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="438" />Researchers discovered that the oldest students within a grade level are 4 to 11% more likely to attain leadership positions in high school activities like a sports team captain, club president, or school treasurer.</p>
<p>Another body of research shows the relative age effect is even apparent in the United States Congress with the distribution of politicians who were on the older side being far higher than the younger.</p>
<p>Nowhere is the effect more obvious, however, than in professional sports. A 2013 report found that "36% of players drafted by National Hockey League teams between 1980 and 2007 were born in the first quarter of those years, or from January to March, compared to 14.5% of draftees who were born in the fourth quarter."</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1599740408-DYAGE-PWkAAV46E.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="496" />There is also an excess number of first-quarter births among National Football League (NFL) players and even among top-tier professional football players in Europe.</p>
<p>So, with parents looking to give their children an advantage, the relative age effect might be a cause to forge a birth certificate, which is something that many Egyptian parents have and continue to do, so it looks like our parents are wiser than we thought!</p>

The relative age difference study might be the biggest thing standing between you and becoming a pro-athlete

How Your Birthday Affects Your Personality, Success, And Intelligence

<p>Egypt&rsquo;s high schoolers will be the first generation of Egyptians to see the end of textbooks in their schools. The news was confirmed last night as Education Minister Tarek Shawki spoke to Ahmed Moussa on the changes being undertaken in Egypt&rsquo;s education system.</p>
<p>Egypt&rsquo;s high schools will see the end of printed textbooks and instead will be given a tablet in which all their educational resources will be accessible online. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Egypt&rsquo;s Ministry of Education has embarked on an ambitious strategy of reforming and modernizing Egypt&rsquo;s education system. A central aspect of the transformation has been to move to digital-based education as the ministry seeks to limit the number of students in classes at one time.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAhmedMoussaEG%2Fvideos%2F3628227553896156%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>On Wednesday&rsquo;s edition of &ldquo;Ala Mas&rsquo;ouleety,&rdquo; Ahmed Moussa got some clarity on the historic changes being undertaken by Tarek Shawki and the Ministry of Education in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
<p>Shawki confirmed that Egyptian high schools are now receiving tablets and that schools are being retrofitted with Wi-Fi networks, and television stations with the necessary education materials are being set up in case students do not have dependable access to the internet from home.</p>
<p>The ministry has purchased 1.8 million tablets for students in the 10th, 11th, and 12 grades, enough for almost every student as the number in these grades is estimated to be around 2 million.</p>
<p>The Education Ministry hopes to fill the shortfall in tablets after a year by providing some services that will require a subscription if a student can afford it.</p>
<p>&ldquo;What we created is on a very high standard, and by high standard, I mean, very costly. The money, however, will be going to the teachers, the schools, and educational systems across the country,&rdquo; said Shawki.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAhmedMoussaEG%2Fvideos%2F609775493032677%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The Education Ministry is still working on an ongoing project to equip every student from the 3rd grade onward with a tablet, but because 10th, 11th, and 12th-grade students have the most demanding workload, they are the first recipients of the new system.</p>
<p>High school students will only be attending class two days out of the week. The new system will mean far fewer students in a single class. This is good for infection but might have negative effects on students' learning overall. Some public schools had more than 30 kids in a class, and are instating a two-days-a-week system will allow classes to have around 15 kids in a class, which is the internationally recommended maximum.</p>
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<figcaption><em>All tablets are manufactured locally.</em></figcaption>
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<p>Shawki also discussed Egypt&rsquo;s digital library. Launched in 2018, the website has been developed to include thousands of books that will no longer be printed physically. Shawki has stated that the Ministry is moving towards educational videos that will guide students as they move towards more home-based learning.</p>
<p>Among the other changes include systems to make private tutoring less necessary for the success of students in school. Schools will now offer specialized tutoring services that students will be able to sign up for. 10th, 11th, and 12th-grade students will have access to specialized learning rooms for private and semi-private tutoring if they need extra lessons.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Private lessons are now something of the past,&rdquo; said Shawki.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gCHpgP9VVcs" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Finally, the tablets will usher in the end of the age of the old exam system. Now, students will do all their exams on their tablets and will finish the exam by learning their exact grade immediately, which Shawki says will avoid human grading bias. As all exams will be multiple-choice, writing will no longer be an aspect of the new examinations.</p>
<p>No two students will have the same set of questions, but will all be at the same difficulty level.</p>
<p>"The crisis we had with cheating will be completely eradicated with this new system in place,&rdquo; said the Minister, explaining that every exam will be automatically created by the exam program itself.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAhmedMoussaEG%2Fvideos%2F379304319863722%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The system will allow students to take a bonus exam in case they fail or postpone their examination. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t want our exams to be a life or death situation,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;if things are complicated and students don&rsquo;t do so well, they will have a chance to redeem themselves and get into the university of their choice.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The new system is still in its infancy, and will undoubtedly have some kinks to work out along the way, but many hope that it has the ability to make the education system much better, even beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
<p>With a new emphasis on critical thinking over memorization, the removal of teachers' biases, the closing of loopholes that allow for cheating, and a system that&rsquo;s not going to allow students to just coast through school to completion, the new system proposed by the ministry is a chance to give young Egyptians the education system they deserve.</p>

Egypt's new online based system will have more positive effects than just preventing the spread of COVID-19, it will completely revamp the previously outdated system.

Printed Textbooks Have Been Discontinued As Ministry Of Education Issues Tablets To All High School Students 

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<p>The proverb &ldquo;necessity is the mother of invention&rdquo; is one of the most familiar lines people know of today, and the COVID-19 pandemic has breathed new life into the phrase. In this vein, a Hungarian orchestra conductor has decided to change things up in the age of face masks and social distancing by inventing a facemask that keeps people safe while enhancing the music they&rsquo;re listening to.</p>
<p>Conductor Ivan Fischer designed a new feature added to the facemask that is designed to enrich the experience of hearing live music by creating two plastic hand-shaped additions to the ear part of a COVID-19 facemask. The hands are designed to cup the wearer&rsquo;s ears so it can provide them with a fuller sound experience.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600087848-55.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="365" />&ldquo;I got to this idea that it should look like a hand because when we put our hands here. We always understand the other person easier, we hear the consonants, and the music sounds much more beautiful,&rdquo; Fischer explained.</p>
<p>The new masks are sold on the orchestra&rsquo;s website for the price of $27 or 8,000 forints. It basically redirects the sound waves into the wearer&rsquo;s ears as it collects them and reflects them back to the listener.</p>
<p>Audience member Zsuzsa Hunyadi-Zoltan told Reuters that the mask and the new addition &ldquo;focused the music more,&rdquo; and that she could &ldquo;clearly feel the difference.&rdquo;</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s an interesting approach, to say the least, as performers used to rely on the building&rsquo;s design and architecture to be able to transpose the music to the audience providing them with an echoey and robust sound, but this new innovation is a nice addition as it can provide something intimate and unique since opera houses and halls contain fewer people than they used to because of COVID-19.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600087860-33.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="365" /></p>

Hungarian Orchestra Conductor designs a new face mask that would bring a fuller sound to its wearers.

Hungarian Orchestra Conductor Invents Music-Enhancing COVID-19 Face Mask

<p>If you&rsquo;re a gamer, yesterday was almost like Christmas, as we finally got the release date and the price for both the regular and the digital version of Sony's upcoming PlayStation 5, and according to a statement from&nbsp;Sony Interactive Entertainment's CEO himself, the new device will have PS4 owners sigh in relief.</p>
<p>Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO and President Jim Ryan revealed in a statement that the PS5 will be able to play 99% of the thousands of PS4 titles that they had already tested through backward compatibility, something that had many PS4 owners worried. Sony even doubled down on the good news as during the conference in which they revealed the "PS Plus Collection," the new console will have some of the biggest PS4 titles available for players to download and play on the PS5.</p>
<p>During last night&rsquo;s Sony &ldquo;PlayStation 5 Special Event&rdquo; we got an in-depth look at a lot of the upcoming games that will launch with the release of the PS5 and some that will launch later on, but we also got answers for the biggest questions about the console, &ldquo;when is it coming out?&rdquo; and &ldquo;how much is it going to cost?&rdquo;.</p>
<p>As for the release date, the PS5 will launch in Japan, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea on November 12, and the rest of the world will be a week later on November 19.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">PS5 Global launch schedule: <a href="https://t.co/zgwfUX6iVl">pic.twitter.com/zgwfUX6iVl</a></p>
&mdash; PlayStation (@PlayStation) <a href="https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1306333806886961152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>As for the cost, there are going to be two different prices for the two different versions of the device, the first is the &ldquo;Digital&rdquo; edition (which doesn&rsquo;t have a blu-ray disk tray) which will cost $399.99, and then there&rsquo;s the normal edition of the console that will come out with a $499.99 price tag.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">See you in November! <a href="https://t.co/CjrQ65rJ5a">pic.twitter.com/CjrQ65rJ5a</a></p>
&mdash; PlayStation (@PlayStation) <a href="https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1306333644437352449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
<p>The price is exactly the same as Sony&rsquo;s biggest rival Microsoft&rsquo;s Xbox Series X, and while the latter decided to release another console called the Xbox Series S that will be able to play the Series X&rsquo;s games at a lower resolution, Sony decided not to sacrifice the quality of their games and meet the people halfway with the digital edition.</p>
<p>The virtual event also showed off a lot of amazing games but we didn&rsquo;t just get cinematic trailers, this time we got gameplay clips showing off the device&rsquo;s speed, graphic capability, and impressive action. We also got some gameplay for much-anticipated games like &ldquo;Resident Evil: Village&rdquo;, &ldquo;Spider-Man: Miles Morales&rdquo;, &ldquo;Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War&rdquo;, and so much more.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the full conference below:</strong></span></p>
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We finally get the PlayStation 5's release date and price and it's the same as the Xbox Series X.

PlayStation 5 Will Play 99% Of PS4 Games

<p>Apple is known for being one of not the biggest company in the world with its products dominating the global scene each year. Not only are Apple products known for being some of the best tech products on the market but many use it as a symbol of prestige especially because of their relatively high price.</p>
<p>So with it being such a global tech phenomenon, it was nice to see Apple acknowledge the huge number of its users who reside in the Middle East and the Arab world. Last night, the tech giant unveiled a slew of new products including a brand new Apple Watch, but what had us buzzing was the new watch faces for the Apple Watches that include Arabic numbers!</p>
<p>Apple revealed a plethora of new watch faces for their new Apple Watch Series 6 and Apple Watch SE and even released a video to show off the new diverse looks as it would meet the users&rsquo; distinct styles and personalities.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600262542-99.jpg" alt="" />While they showed off different looks that had different functions like the GMT face that shows different times from around the world and would change according to your location, a count-up face that helps with saving laps and speed determination, a Chronograph Pro-face which features multiple time scales for a distinct look, they later revealed the new looks that had the new Arabic scripts on their face.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600262554-33.jpg" alt="" width="563" height="653" />One of those new scripts is in Arabic numbers which are making their appearance for the first time. Apple didn't just stop with one Arabic design, as there are different looks too, giving users choices between various looks.</p>
<p>The new faces will join other designs like ones that match the wearer&rsquo;s clothes, there are even designs that feature the user&rsquo;s Apple Memojis too which is a really nice touch.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check them out below:</strong></span>&nbsp;</p>
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Apple introduces new watch faces including Arabic numbered ones for the very first time.

Apple Introduces New Watch Faces With Arabic Numbers For The First Time

<p>Everybody is always excited about what Apple reveals when it comes to their big events and last night was their September event titled &ldquo;Time Flies&rdquo; which gave tech buffs all over the world a lot to talk and think about. With the announcement of two Apple Watches, two iPads, and a new service called &ldquo;Apple One&rdquo;, last night's event revealed what the tech giant has in store for iSheep in the coming year, with the exception of any new info about the new iPhone 12, regrettable, but still!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Apple Watches</strong></span></p>
<p>Apple unveiled two new Apple Watch models, the first is the new &ldquo;Apple Watch 6&rdquo; and then we got an all-new budget friendly version named the &ldquo;Apple Watch SE&rdquo; reminiscent of the iPhone SE which is a cheaper version in the iPhone lineup.</p>
<p>The new Apple Watch 6 model comes with the S6 chipset which Apple states is 20% faster than previous iterations of the gadget, and includes a new feature that can monitor the wearer&rsquo;s blood oxygen levels through infrared LEDs that scan the reflect-ability of the light off the wrist but unfortunately unlike their ECG monitor it didn&rsquo;t get a regulatory clearance so it needs to be treated as just a suggestion and not an accurate reference for a wearer's blood oxygen level.</p>
<p>Apple Watch 6 will also come with an always-on screen and an 18-hour battery life which is not that long as it&rsquo;s basically the same as its predecessor, but Apple has developed its charge speeds so it can charge up to 80% in an hour which would be enough to get the user through the day. The Apple Watch 6 starts at $399.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TCMnrssX1NE" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Moving on to the new Apple Watch SE, it&rsquo;s much more affordable starting at $279 and has the same square aluminum face design like the new Apple Watch 6, but will get the S5 chipset, which is still two times faster than the Apple Watch 3, however, you&rsquo;ll lose some of the new features like the ECG sensor, the blood oxygen level sensor, and the always-on feature, but then again you&rsquo;ll get the rest of the health and networking features that the Apple Watches are known for.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/W0qEOZNJjyA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>iPads</strong></span></p>
<p>At the event, Apple refreshed it&rsquo;s iPad Air and iPad lines giving them more powerful internals.</p>
<p>The 4th generation of iPad Air became more of a working beast as it was updated with the new A14 Bionic chip making it 40% faster than the older model, it is now compatible with both the Apple Pencil and the magic keyboard which had a lot of people talking when it was first released.</p>
<p>The tech giant dropped the lightning port for a USB Type-C which made the device more accessible to other devices and accessories in the future. The fourth-generation iPad Air has an all-screen design, a fingerprint scanner in the power button, and is coming in five colors, silver, space-grey, rose gold, green, and sky blue. It will also feature two size options: 64 GB and 256 GB. The new device starts at $599.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/r_VSll0WLZE" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>As for the regular iPad, the new eighth generation has the A12 Bionic chip which makes the device 40% faster than its predecessor and twice as fast when it comes to graphics giving users a more crisp visual experience. It will also be compatible with the Apple Pencil, but not the Magic Keyboard, and it will retain the three different color schemes silver, space grey, and gold. The iPad will come in two size options, 32 GB and 128 GB, with the price starting at $329.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PlpiFQgYw68" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Apple One</strong></span></p>
<p>Finally the new subscription service Apple One will provide the users with a group of services. The services are basically the ones people use but pay for separately, so Apple decided to put them into one simple bundle and make it more accessible to users.</p>
<p>The services include Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, iCloud Storage, Apple News+, and Apple Fitness+.</p>
<p>The first bundle is an individual one which will give the subscriber Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and 50GB of iCloud storage for $14.95 per month. The Family bundle will include Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and 200GB of iCloud storage for $19.95 per month and can be shared with another five members of the family.</p>
<p>Finally, there&rsquo;s Premier which provides Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+, and 2TB of iCloud storage for $29.95 per month, and can be shared among up to another five family members.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5vRlulB9-bA" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>If you want to check out the full conference watch it below:</strong></span></p>
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Apple reveals its new iPad Air, iPad, Apple Watch 6, and an affordable Apple Watch SE.

Everything You Need To Know From Apple’s Latest September Event

<p>The Social media space is a ruthless one at the moment with each company trying to create their own version of the other&rsquo;s feature so that they can dominate the market and get the most users possible. And with TikTok being the hottest thing in the market at the moment, YouTube, and Facebook have been scrambling to create something similar and get a piece of the short-form video pie.</p>
<p>While Facebook recently launched Instagram Reels which is the same short-format video platform with music where users can have some fun and create their own &ldquo;reels&rdquo;. Now, YouTube has announced that it is coming out with its own thing called &ldquo;YouTube Shorts&rdquo; and it&rsquo;s currently in its beta testing phase in India before branching out to the rest of the world.</p>
<p>The announcement first started as a flex, with YouTube claiming to be the first platform to start the short-format trends with their first-ever video uploaded on the platform that was only 18 seconds long.</p>
<p>&ldquo;User-generated short videos were born on YouTube starting with our first upload, a short 18-second video called &lsquo;Me at the zoo&rsquo;,&rdquo; starts the announcement.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re excited to announce that we are building YouTube Shorts, a new short-form video experience right on YouTube for creators and artists who want to shoot short, catchy videos using nothing but their mobile phones,&rdquo; announced YouTube.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600175330-shortslogo.jpg" alt="" />According to their blog post, the company stated that this new service is still an early version and will come with limited creative features with more to come as it matures and develops further giving users more to play and have fun with.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Over the next few days in India, we&rsquo;re launching an early beta of Shorts with a handful of new creative tools to test this out. This is an early version of the product, but we're releasing it now to bring you &mdash; our global community of users, creators and artists &mdash; on our journey with us as we build and improve Shorts,&rdquo; explained the post.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll continue to add more features and expand to more countries in the coming months as we learn from you and listen to your feedback. Here are more details on what to expect,&rdquo; the company elaborated.</p>
<p>&ldquo;So what is Shorts exactly?&rdquo; you might be asking yourself, well it&rsquo;s basically a new way for users to express themselves in short videos with a maximum duration of 15 seconds.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600175341-YTS_GIF2.png" alt="" />YouTube announced what the new service has when it comes to features at the moment saying &ldquo;multi-segment camera to string multiple video clips together. The option to record with music from a large library of songs that will continue to grow, Speed controls that give you the flexibility to be creative in your performance, and a timer and countdown to easily record, hands-free.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>The new &ldquo;YouTube Shorts&rdquo; is only available on Android devices in India but will expand to iOS and the world very soon.</p>

YouTube is rolling out a new TikTok-like feature called "YouTube Shorts"  in India with hopes to exand to the rest of the world soon.

YouTube Is Launching Its Own Version Of TikTok Called "Youtube Shorts"

<p>Never one to let a good idea go un-monetized, Facebook has announced that it will provide a new feature to its Messenger app to allow friends to watch videos together.</p>
<p>The announcement followed Disney+&rsquo;s GroupWatch, as well as other group watch features debuted on Amazon, Hulu, Twitch and Netflix that rolled out conference calling and online meeting features after the explosive success of Zoom early on in the pandemic.</p>
<p>COVID-19 has radically altered how technology can keep people connected despite work from home, social distancing, and limited social gatherings.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5e4Lz13otM" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Facebook announced on Monday that its users will now be able access Watch Together, a new way to watch videos with friends online using the social media company's Messenger app, enabling them to see reactions in real time.</p>
<p>Watch Together will allow friends to view videos from Facebook Watch while also seeing a live video of their friends so that they can see each other's reactions. It&rsquo;s rolling out globally starting Monday on iOS and Android.</p>
<p>To use the feature, swipe up on a video call or Messenger Room and tap the new Watch Together option. Facebook will suggest videos for you to watch, or you can browse categories or search for a specific video. You can watch with as many as eight people on a Messenger video call or up to 50 people in a Messenger Room.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600169693-Facebook-Watch-Together.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="349" />Facebook says there are now 150 million video calls on Messenger a day, and that people send 200 million videos to one another daily. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s really getting more and more visual, and it continues to grow very, very fast,&rdquo; said Stan Chudnovsky, who runs Messenger, in an interview.</p>
<p>While Facebook is attempting to catch up with Netflix&rsquo;s Party feature, as well as similar features on Amazon, Hulu, and Disney+, the world&rsquo;s largest social media company is severely disadvantaged in this fight.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600169730-Screen_Shot_2020_03_24_at_11.16.42_AM.0.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="413" />For one, the company does not have access to a wide variety of movies or television series, and people will only be able to use Watch Together on their mobile phones, which will be a obstacle that many might avoid.</p>
<p>However, despite the disadvantages, Facebook is still looking to stay ahead of the competition to its social connections applications, especially with the surprise success of Zoom.</p>
<p>Facebook also has bigger worries as the US presidential election looms in November and the company is once again being criticized for its lack of attention to politically distorting ads and extremist groups using the platform.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600169787-960x0.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="349" />India, Honduras, and Azerbaijan have criticized the company this month due to the social network giant&rsquo;s apathy towards how its platform is used to stoke tensions.</p>
<p>Sophie Zhang made a report about the inner working of Facebook from her time as a data analyst working for the company. Zhang alleges that Facebook only turns its attention to political controversy in the United States when it absolutely has to, such as with the coming election.</p>

Facebook's addition of the new Messenger feature is designed to compete with other video conference apps.

Facebook Launches "Watch Together" Feature On Messenger To Allow You To Remotely Watch Videos With Your Friends

<p>The PlayStation 5&rsquo;s price tag has been a source of speculation ever since the device was announced a few months back, with many spreading rumors of what the gaming console might be priced at, however, all that is about to change as Sony announced a PS5 showcase event happening this week and though they have kept mum about what the event will entail, many are speculating that it will be a full introduction to the much-anticipated device, set to reveal its price as well.</p>
<p>Simply titled the &ldquo;PlayStation 5 Showcase Event&rdquo;, Sonny announced the special virtual conference to get ready for the PS5&rsquo;s launch this fall, as it had already been making people wait for the preorders to open and even limited it for one PS5 per order.</p>
<p>The event is set to take place on Wednesday, September 16 at 10 PM Cairo Time, and will look at some of the games set to launch with the device and beyond, and will run for about 40 minutes.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/umfhduWXCCc" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Sony hasn&rsquo;t come out and blatantly announced the price of the PS5, but it&rsquo;s more than likely that we&rsquo;re going to get it this Wednesday, since Microsft recently announced the price of its console the Xbox Series X which will sell for $499, and will be coming out on November 10, 2020.</p>
<p>So gamers get ready, as the event will offer a bigger emphasis on games which is the heart and soul of any console, and lately, Sony has been killing it with some impressive titles and gameplay so far.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RkC0l4iekYo" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>We got out first look at the device back in June when the console was first unveiled showing off a futuristic design that had everybody in the gaming community talking especially when compared to the &ldquo;trashcan&rdquo; design of the Xbox Series X.</p>
<p>We&rsquo;ve seen some games too, which has very excited and we&rsquo;ll love to see even more of them on Wednesday, including the new &ldquo;Spider-Man&rdquo; game as well as the &ldquo;Resident Evil Village&rdquo; horror game that had a lot of people speculating about its plot.</p>
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Sony announces the PS5 Showcase Event this Wednesday, and we might finally get a price tag and release date.

Sony Announces PlayStation 5 Showcase Event To Introduce The Masses To The Much-Anticipated Console

<p>Apple&rsquo;s events are some of the most anticipated tech events of the year, and most people wait for their keynotes to see what they will potentially buy next, and now everybody is excited as Apple made an announcement that a new keynote event is happening next week.</p>
<p>Even though most of the people are waiting for the next iPhone announcement, rumors and insiders claim that this event will be all about the new Apple Watch and iPad Air, still Apple is notorious for doing some surprise announcements so we might end up seeing more stuff.</p>
<p>The iWatch rumors have been bolstered even further as the new event on September 15 has the tagline &ldquo;Time Flies&rdquo;, so fans can hope for a new Apple Watch 6 announcement and/or a more affordable version of the device in a new iteration. The rumors circulating also have been buzzing with a new iPad Air reveal which could be exciting for many users.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1599642788-Apple-Event-720x404.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="348" />Jon Prosser, a tech leaker who has been mostly right when it comes to upcoming Apple reveals has consistently stated the&nbsp;the iPad and Apple Watch reveal dates will be in Septemeber, and the iPhone 12 would be slated for an announcement in October due to delays in the phone&rsquo;s production because of COVID-19.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">w/c = week commencing (for context) <br /><br />With the staggered release of iPhone 12 and uncertainty of final dates for Pro models, there's a chance that the dates could slip/change <br /><br />I'll let you know if anything gets changed! But for now, this is the info in the system _</p>
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<p>Apple has been in the news recently but for a different reason, as instead of technology-related rumors, the company has been having a huge fight with Epic Games over their game &ldquo;Fortnite&rdquo; after the latter introduced ways for users to pay for in-game currency bypassing the Apple &ldquo;in-game paid content tax&rdquo;, leading to Apple removing the whole game from their App Store, which has also led to Epic Games suing them for their monopoly over where people can download their apps on their iPhones.</p>

Apple announced a new September event coming next week as new rumors buzz around the new iPad Air and Apple Watch.

Apple Announces New Keynote Event Next Week With Rumors Of A New iPad Air & Apple Watch

<p>We might be saying goodbye to traffic soon as a Japanese company by the name of SkyDrive just successfully tested its first flying car, and is hoping to launch the new craft to the public sooner than you might think.</p>
<p>The company has been working hard on such a vehicle for quite a while with their new &ldquo;SD-03&rdquo; model (let&rsquo;s hope that&rsquo;s not going to be the permanent name) being the latest.</p>
<p>SkyDrive shared a flight test for the &ldquo;electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL)&rdquo; that lasted about three minutes, whereby the manned vehicle launches up in the air, makes its way around a test field before making its way to the landing spot and touching down.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check it out below:</strong></span>&nbsp;</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xA9ah0zf9MQ" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>A press release by the company revealed that another test was conducted back on August 25, where the SD-03 eVTOL took off at a Toyota Test Field, which is one of the largest test fields in Japan and home to the company&rsquo;s development base which spans 10,000-square-meters. The car flew at night for four whole minutes with a pilot behind the (we guess) wheel, however, the pilot was assisted with onboard computers to ensure safety and flight stability.</p>
<p>&ldquo;SkyDrive&rsquo;s flying car has been designed to be a coupe embodying dreams and exuding charisma, such that it will be welcomed into people&rsquo;s lives and used naturally. The main exterior color of the SD-03 is pearl white, which was chosen to represent white birds and the floating clouds in the sky of users&rsquo; future. The company hopes that its aircraft will become people&rsquo;s partner in the sky rather than merely a commodity and it will continue working to design a safe sky for the future as a partner in the sky,&rdquo; wrote the company on their statement.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check its development below (press on closed captions for English):</strong></span></p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/58kEzTpPzS0" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The company is intending to conduct further tests under different distances and conditions to improve and develop the vehicle further and ensure no issues might occur later on when it hits the market.[article id=6427]&ldquo;We are extremely excited to have achieved Japan&rsquo;s first-ever manned flight of a flying car in the two years since we founded SkyDrive in 2018 with the goal of commercializing such aircraft. We aim to take our social experiment to the next level in 2023 and to that end we will be accelerating our technological development and our business development,"&nbsp;wrote SkyDrive CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa.</p>
<p>"We want to realize a society where flying cars are an accessible and convenient means of transportation in the skies and people are able to experience a safe, secure, and comfortable new way of life. We also aspire to develop markets around the world, in collaboration with our partner companies, so that an urban air mobility society with aircraft supplied by SkyDrive becomes a reality not only in Japan but also across the globe,&rdquo; he continued.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s an impressive piece of tech, to say the least, but there are so many unanswered questions like, where are people going to park it, what&rsquo;s the distance range of the vehicle, and so much more, however, it&rsquo;s a step to a future we&rsquo;ve only seen in sci-fi movies, which we honestly can't wait to see.</p>

SkyDrive tests its flying car the "SD-03" successfully, inching one step closer to an interesting future.

Japan's SkyDrive Successfully Completes Its First Flying Car Test Set To Release Soon

<p>The first Samsung Galaxy Z Fold was a breakthrough in foldable smartphones by doubling as a tablet as well as a phone and setting a precedent for these kinds of devices for the future, and last night Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Z Fold 2.</p>
<p>While from afar the two could be confused for one another, the new one has a lot of new developments, as it shows that Samsung has learned from its previous mistakes and worked to better the device instead of just giving it a spec bump.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FjBYxwJlesE" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Larger displays both internally and externally, the device now has a 6.2-inch external screen and opens up to a foldable 7.6-inch display which has an impressive 120Hz refresh rate and a punch-hole styled 10-megapixel selfie camera.</p>
<p>On the external screen, there&rsquo;s another punch-hole styled 10-megapixel selfie camera, but on the back of the device, it features a triple camera setup, all of which have 12-megapixel sensors, with the first being a wide lens, the second a telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom, and a third 123 angle ultrawide lens.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BvQiQcCLiqU" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>The device will come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+, the latest in its range to date, along with 12GB of RAM, and the options of 256GB or 512GB of storage without the capability of adding more, it will also have 5G capability for lightning-fast internet speed and connectivity.</p>
<p>Samsung also changed the hinge of the device and took the Galaxy Z Flip hinge which had the internal brush-like material that made sure dust and other external elements wouldn&rsquo;t be able to get inside the device, and applied it in this phone.</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TXRbFnRf4X4" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>One of the things that stood out to people most was the hefty pricetag for the device which is set to cost a whopping $2000, which makes the device not just impressive, but a statement that the owner has some deep pockets. The device is slated for preorder starting today, and will officially go on sale starting September 18.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check out the full conference below:</strong></span></p>
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Samsung reveals its newest foldable device Galaxy Z Fold 2, and it's super expensive.

Samsung Reveals The $2000 Galaxy Z Fold 2 Showing Off Its Evolution From Predecessor

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<p>American Top 40 - or AT40 - is an internationally syndicated, independent song countdown radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs.</p>
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<p>In light of a recent rise of water levels in the Nile river, Egypt&rsquo;s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has issued an order to the nation&rsquo;s officials to set up an emergency plan in case of flooding to mitigate the dangers and potential loss of life and property that could ensue.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Irrigation announced last month that the annual Nile floods are set to be more intense this year because of increased rainfall in the Blue Nile area, one of the major tributaries of the larger Nile river which pours into the Mediterranean Sea at the fork of the Nile Delta, with Rashid on the West side and Damietta on the East.</p>
<p>Despite nothing being final yet regarding the extent to which the floods could take place this year, Madbouly met with a number of ministers yesterday (Tuesday, September 15) to make sure the country is prepared to deal with increased flooding this year, especially in light of the disastrous outcomes of the increased floods in Sudan which have ravaged a large portion of the country&rsquo;s homes and left many of its citizens homeless and in need of basic necessities.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEgyptianCabinet%2Fposts%2F1718904831621208&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=747&amp;appId" width="552" height="747" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Madbouly stated during the meeting that he wants to make sure that the government is prepared to drain any additional water and remove pollutants in both branches of the Nile at the fork of the Delta. The plan discussed also addressed the preparedness of evacuating the residents of both Rashid and Damietta and their neighboring areas to make sure people are safe should the Nile waters rise further, which is a very real possibility right now.</p>
<p>The plan includes sending maps of the areas on the banks of the Nile that are most susceptible to flooding to various governors to help them in ascertaining which areas they should be ready to evacuate should water levels rise any further.</p>
<p>According to Madbouly&rsquo;s statement, many of the more susceptible areas house a great deal of illegally constructed homes and buildings which could be in danger of flooding this year, underscoring the difficulty this presents to the government when it comes to being prepared for floods as many of the buildings are not registered with governmental institutions so it&rsquo;s hard to know which areas have houses and which don&rsquo;t.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600242461-NileCelebration.AFP_.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="416" />Floods happen annually in Egypt around the fall season, during the months of August, September and October which is the time of year when there is increased rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands that then feed into the Blue Nile, which is one of the largest tributaries that contributes to the water levels of the main Nile river.</p>
<p>Water Resources Minister Mohamed Abdel Aati addressed Egypt&rsquo;s preparedness for floods at the meeting, asserting that the equipment at the Aswan High Dam, the Edfina barrages on the Rashid branch of the Nile, as well as the Faraskur barrages on the Damietta side should be alright to deal with the floods, however, he did state that the government&rsquo;s preparedness could be affected due to the large amounts of building violations that have taken place in both areas over the years.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600242685-YYYYY_YYYYYY.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="465" />Despite these violations, however, the Abdel Aati stated that the government is well-prepared for all scenarios. Abdel Aati ordered officials to continue removing illegal structures on waterways, especially those on the Nile, as such encroachments limit the capability of the water networks to contain excess water during flooding.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600242818-Sudan-floods-main.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="412" />The Egyptian government has been liaising with the Sudanese government since early August when water levels there began to rise and eventually resulted in the catastrophic floods that the Sudanese government is currently dealing with.</p>
<p>In March 2020, prolific flooding caused by two days of heavy rain across Egypt killed at least 20 people, the cabinet&rsquo;s statement said, adding that such conditions had not been seen for 35 to 40 years, something that many are attributing to climate change/global warming.</p>

Rising water levels in the Nile river are concerning the Egyptian government, which has implemented a new emergency plan to deal with possible flooding.

Egypt Announces Emergency Plan To Deal With Potential Flooding As Nile Waters Continue To Rise

To raise awareness about how people can conserve the Nile's ecosystem, two Egyptian adventurers have kayaked 1491 k.m. from Abu Simbel to Ras El-Bar.

From Abu Simbel To Ras El-Bar: Two Egyptian Adventurers Kayak The Breathtaking Length Of The Nile River

<p>Famed Egyptian TV presenter Radwa El-Sherbiny is now under investigation for some controversial remarks she made on her show saying that women who wear the hijab are &ldquo;better&rdquo;&nbsp; than their unveiled counterparts.</p>
<p>Following El-Sherbiny&rsquo;s comments, which she made on her CBC Sofra show &ldquo;Heya w Bas,&rdquo; the Supreme Council for Media Regulation, a regulatory governmental body tasked with overseeing media affairs overall, received a number of complaints against the presenter for her somewhat inflammatory statements.</p>
<p>During the episode, El-Sherbiny's comments were made in response to a fan of her show who sent in a message asking for advice about how to deal with her inner conflict as to whether she should continue wearing the hijab or not. El-Sherbiny advises her veiled viewers to continue wearing the hijab even if they are being pressured by those around them to take it off. The remarks were all the more annoying to some of her more critical viewers because El-Sherbiny herself doesn&rsquo;t wear a hijab, but was surprisingly judgmental towards unveiled women.</p>
<p>&ldquo;To every [woman] who is the only veiled one among her group of friends, or [in her] family, or street, or work, never take off the hijab. You are 100,000 times better than me and other non-hijabi women,&rdquo; she said last week.<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8OQ-RF_x8yQ" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>However, she didn&rsquo;t stop there and she dug herself into a deeper hole by claiming, rather insensitively that &ldquo;the devil&rdquo; inside unveiled women is much stronger than &ldquo;their faith and strength,&rdquo; which is pretty extreme.</p>
<p>Upon realizing that she might have gone too far with her comments, El-Sherbiny issued an apology in which she clarified that she didn&rsquo;t mean to offend non-hijabis, but merely that her point is that veiled women have performed their duties towards God and their religion more proficiently than unveiled women. El-Sherbiny included herself in the group of unveiled women, using this as a basis that she did not mean any negative intent because her comments were directed at a group that she is a part of.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;I meant to say that hijabi women have done their duty better than I and non-hijabi women,&rdquo; she said, adding that this does not mean that non-Hijabi women are not good.</p>
<p>She finished her apology by saying that there are obviously good and bad examples of veiled and unveiled women out there.</p>
<p>As is the custom with such incidents, Egyptian social media accounts exploded with opinions regarding El-Sherbiny&rsquo;s comments, with many people coming to her defense who seem to understand the intent of what she was trying to communicate. However, there were others who were deeply offended by her comments, feeling that as a media personality, she has a bigger responsibility to edit what comes out of her mouth since she has some sway over the opinions of her viewers as a whole.</p>

After claiming that veiled women are "100,000 times better" than unveiled women and that the devil is stronger inside unveiled women, Radwa El-Sherbiny is now facing investigations.

Egyptian TV Presenter Radwa El-Sherbiny Is Under Investigation For Controversial Remarks About The Hijab

<p>The Egyptian government is taking some pretty serious steps to improve the quality of life for its Bedouin communities residing in the Sinai Peninsula with a landmark development project that will introduce a wide variety of much-needed services to one of Egypt&rsquo;s oldest ethnic minorities.</p>
<p>Minister of International Cooperation visited Sinai yesterday to follow up on the progress of the development project in question.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The project, which is being implemented and funded by the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) as part of the Sinai Peninsula Development Program, aims to diversify Sinai&rsquo;s economy and create wider and more varied job opportunities for the governorate&rsquo;s natives, most importantly its Bedouin communities.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEgyptianCabinet%2Fposts%2F1717230268455331&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=792&amp;appId" width="552" height="792" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>While inspecting the projects, Al-Mashat emphasized the positive social and economic impact of the development endeavors being undertaken in the Sinai Peninsula, which are being carried out under the supervision of the Command of the East Canal Forces to Combat Terrorism in cooperation with the Engineering Authority for the Armed Forces, as well as its role in providing direct and indirect job opportunities to communities in the area of which 45,000 are expected to be made available when the first phase of the project is completed.</p>
<p>Al-Mashat explained that the development project aims to establish a number of 26 Bedouin communities, each with a dedicated mosque, a basic education school, a health unit, a sports complex, a commercial complex, and 18 agricultural areas. Al-Mashat emphasized the importance of Bedouin communities&rsquo; human capital and its potential which is regrettably not being realized due to poor access to opportunities and basic services such as quality education or clean drinking water. By addressing these basic needs, the project aims to improve the quality of life for many people living in the Sinai Peninsula.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600079005-119567069_1717229675122057_2678440667341088407_o.jpg" alt="" />When it comes to funding for the project, it is currently split between the SFD and the AFESD. Under the King Salman Program for the Development of the Sinai Peninsula, the SFD is financing a number of the development goals outlined by the project. The first batch of funding amounts to about $1.5 billion and will go towards constructing 1,381 homes and community service facilities for the region&rsquo;s Bedouin communities.</p>
<p>The second wave of funding from the SFD will amount to $113 million and will go towards developing another 18 communities, in addition to 971 Bedouin homes in the area.</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nrpassets/uploads/embeds/1600079022-119448097_1717229601788731_851019854271327053_o.jpg" alt="" />The SFD has signed agreements with the AFESD to provide further funding for a clean water and irrigation project that will be integral to the agricultural endeavors of the development project. The irrigation project is set to cost around $170m and will target 15 of the 26 Bedouin communities included in the Sinai Peninsula Development Program in the first phase.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the AFESD will be funding the Bahr El-Baqar drainage system set to be implemented in the area, with a grant worth about $243 million. The system is set to have a daily capacity of 5 million cbm, which can aid in reclaiming 230,000 feddans of arable land in the area. It also aims to preserve the environment by protecting water reserves, and reducing water loss for agricultural development in the area.</p>

Under the auspices of the Saudi Development Fund and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Bedouin Sinai is about to get a major makeover.

Egypt Is Undertaking Some Pretty Big Development Projects In Sinai To Take Care Of Its Bedouin Communities

<p>Egypt&rsquo;s Ministry of Health announced that it has begun procedures to test out a COVID-19 vaccine on volunteers starting today (Sunday, September 13.) According to a ministry statement released via Facebook yesterday, <a href="http://www.covactrial.mohp.gov.eg/">a dedicated website</a> has been launched through which volunteers can sign up to a part of the clinical trials, held in cooperation with the Chinese government and Emirati healthcare company G24.</p>
<p>Egypt is currently developing seven different COVID-19 vaccines, four of which were developed in China. However, only one has been approved to enter the third phase of clinical trials, the wide-scale human testing phase. The ministry is calling for 6,000 volunteers to participate in the clinical trials for the vaccine.</p>
<p>Participants in the trial will be given two doses of the vaccinations, 21 days apart, and they will be monitored for a full year after they receive the shot to ensure that their bodies are not having any adverse effects to the vaccine. It&rsquo;s important to note that participants will not be receiving any financial compensation for their participation in the trial. But to get your hands on something that could protect you from one of the world&rsquo;s most feared monsters right now is enough compensation in our eyes.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fegypt.mohp%2Fposts%2F220643549486265&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=785&amp;appId" width="552" height="785" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>The vaccine has already cleared the previous two phases of testing, of which the first phase, known as the pre-clinical phase, involved laboratory experiments followed by animal tests to make sure the shots promoted a healthy immune response in the host&rsquo;s body. The second phase involved human testing, but on a much smaller scale than currently being undertaken, and now that the vaccine has cleared the first two phases safely and effectively, it is ready to enter the third phase, which entails more widespread testing on a much larger base of participants.</p>
<p>The clinical trials will be conducted on a group of 45,000 participants in 4 Arab countries,the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt, under a widespread initiative called &ldquo;L Agl El Insaneya (For Humanity)&rdquo;. 35,000 Arab individuals have already participated in the trials, with the rest set to sign up for the trials in the coming days.&nbsp;</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sqqgcyGjRLI" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Participants will be given a PCR swab test to ensure they are free of COVID-19 before they receive the vaccination. Patients will then be given the first dose of the vaccine under the supervision of a specialist. The patient will then be transferred to the observation room where they will be observed for 30 minutes before leaving. The volunteer is followed up through a card system that contains the dates of their subsequent visits to the center and the phone number that the volunteer should call in case of any side effects or inquiries regarding the trial.</p>
<p>The ministry has already launched <a href="http://www.covactrial.mohp.gov.eg/">a dedicated website</a> set to go live today, through which people can sign up to receive the vaccination.</p>
<p>Egypt&rsquo;s Minister of Health Dr. Hala Zayed expressed in the statement that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has instructed the nation&rsquo;s healthcare apparatus to continue its participation with various countries around the world to expedite the process of finding a safe and effective vaccine for the ongoing pandemic. El-Sisi stated that Egypt's launch of this clinical trial held in cooperation with China underscores its scientific and research prowess in the MENA regions.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEgy.Pres.Spokesman%2Fposts%2F975156813003699&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=409&amp;appId" width="552" height="409" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>El-Sisi has also reportedly called on the government to amp up their awareness campaigns regarding COVID-19 preventive measures to keep the populace vigilant and fight complacency ahead of the start of the new school year, as many are still in fear over the advent of a second wave of the outbreak, which many experts are saying could be more prolific than the first wave.</p>
<p>Zayed phoned in to several talk shows last night to announce the launch of Egypt&rsquo;s clinical trials and she revealed that according to several research reports, COVID-19 is much less potent now than it was when the pandemic began earlier this year, both in Egypt and elsewhere in the world.</p>
<p>As of today, Egypt&rsquo;s official COVID-19 case count is at 100,856 after the ministry reported 148 new covid-19 infections yesterday, down from 151 the day before. The death toll is currently at&nbsp; 5,627 after another 20 people succumbed to the illness yesterday. We now have a total of 83,261 confirmed cases that have fully recovered.</p>

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