Egypt

Royal Caribbean confirmed this week it has selected Greece for homeporting, with its 11-deck Enchantment of the Seas cruise liner departing from Piraeus from May to September this year for seven-night cruises to Greek ports such as Mykonos, Santorini, Hania, Corfu etc, and Adriatic ports such as Kotor in Montenegro and Split in Croatia, before disembarking at Ravenna in Italy.

Tourism enterprises will be able to hire workers from third countries outside the European Union, in order to cover the large gaps observed in the sector in recent years.

MT KOPAONIK - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday a FTA with China was due by the end of the year.

"I believe we will reach a FTA with China and hopefully negotiate it and sign it by the end of this year, and that we will become even stronger in that regard," Brnabic said at the Kopaonik Business Forum.

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a sphinx statue "with a smiley face and two dimples" near the Hathor Temple, one of the country's best preserved ancient sites, the tourism and antiquities ministry announced on March 6.

It is the latest in a series of discoveries revealed over the past few months.

Greece could become an important hydrogen hub for Europe, with hydrogen being the fuel of the future and ranking high on the European Commission's agenda for the transition to a pollution-free economy by 2050.

The European Union has signed an agreement with Egypt, while Saudi Arabia is developing renewable hydrogen production plans that are targeting Europe.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Defence Minister Milos Vucevic held separate meetings with the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Lt-Gen Osama Askar and the country's Minister for Military Production Mohamed Mustafa at the IDEX 2023 arms fair in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Egypt and Serbia respect each other's territorial integrity, says Egyptian Ambassador to Belgrade Bassel Salah, noting that cooperation in the tourism industry is an especially significant aspect of ties between the two countries.

In five months, Bulgaria exported weapons with a total value of 1,016,336,858 euros, reported BGNES.

The information is from the period March 1 to August 1, 2022. For the specified period, 289 permits were issued for the export and transfer of defense-related products.

BELGRADE - Air Serbia will commence direct flights between Belgrade and Cairo on May 15.

The Serbian national airline will be operating flights to the capital of Egypt three times a week, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, while flights from Cairo to the Serbian capital will be operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, Air Serbia announced in a statement.

Israel's security cabinet has approved measures that will make it easier for Israelis to obtain permits to own weapons so "thousands more civilians" can acquire them, and will "strengthen" Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.