Egypt

An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 men accused of homosexuality to jail terms of between three and 12 years, legal sources said.

The defendants were arrested in a flat in the leafy Cairo suburb of Agouza in September last year.

Two men who were among 41 people picked up over the weekend from a boat found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea described on Thursday surviving what they say was a shipwreck that might have killed up to 500 people.

Hundreds of coffee lovers queued early April 21 in an upmarket Johannesburg shopping centre as international chain Starbucks opened its first cafe in sub-Saharan Africa.

FIF presented the Slovenian Government FDI Declaration, which the main goal of increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) from 10.5bn now to EUR 15bn in five years.

"I wouldn't get up here every week and talk about this and express our concerns if we were content with what we're seeing with the way journalists are being treated there [Turkey]. We're not content," Kirby said in response to insistent questions on whether the U.S. conveyed a serious massage to Turkish politicians on the matter, during the daily press briefing on April 20. 

The U.N. refugee agency said on April 20 that it feared around 500 migrants from Africa had drowned in the Mediterranean after witnesses said their overcrowded boat sank.

The 2016 World Press Freedom Index prepared by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) saw Turkey decline by over six points compared to last year due to "systematic censoring" of the media in addition to a sharp rise in charges of "insulting the president" and loosely defined "terrorism."

As the world's Muslim leaders admitted at last week's Islamic summit, the past 1,400 tumultuous years of sectarian fighting did not bring peace and happiness to Muslim lands. But, judging from the happy smiles and big speeches at the summit, the next 1,400 tumultuous years may be better. 

Hopefully, the third 1,400 years of tumultuous future may finally bring some peace.

An estimated 178,882 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea in 2016, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced on Tuesday.

"Latest confirmed fatalities stand at 737," IOM said in a statement

France signed several deals worth about 2 billion euros ($2.26 billion) with Egypt during a visit by French President Francois Hollande to Cairo, the French president's office said on April 18, as reported by Reuters. 

The deals included a satellite communications contract agreed upon following discussions between the two presidents and their defense ministries, the Elysee said.