RIYADH: Wage increases for Egyptian civil servants working in administrative and service roles will be paid in July, Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait said. The initiative, for which 25 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.6 billion) have been allocated in the current fiscal year’s budget, are aimed at helping to improve citizens’ living standards, he said in an official statement today. A separate 1.5 billion Egyptian pounds has been allocated for workers transferred to the New Administrative Capital worth, he said. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ordered on March 15 that the minimum wage for state employees should be raised to EGP2,400 ($153) a month from EGP2,000 and state pension should rise by 13 percent.
RIYADH: The Arab coalition said on Monday that it had returned a Yemeni child recruited by the Houthi militia to the legitimate Yemeni government, Saudi Press Agency reported. Spokesman Brig. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said the procedures were carried out in the presence of representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Saudi Red Crescent, the Human Rights
JERUSALEM: A veteran Mossad operative, who Israeli media said specialized in recruiting agents to work against Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, was named on Monday as the Israeli intelligence agency’s new chief.
David Barnea, 56, and currently the Mossad’s deputy director, will replace Joseph (Yossi) Cohen, early next month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
Cohen is stepping down after more than five years at the Mossad’s helm, during which he was closely involved in Israel’s outreach to Gulf Arab states that resulted in peace deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain last year.
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