It’s a quiet morning for Egypt in the international press, with most news being focused on either the World Cup or the new-found resolution between Egypt and Ethiopia to overcome their issues over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (see Diplomacy + Foreign Trade).

A couple of other headlines that caught our eyes this morning:

  • The Australian Museum in Sydney is spending AUD 50 mn to renovate its expo halls before it hosts the largest “Tutankhamun exhibition to ever leave Egypt,” the Sydney Morning Herald says. The artefacts will be on display in Sydney for six months before they settle permanently at the new Grand Egyptian Museum.
  • Egypt is appealing to UNESCO to have a full-size replica of the Sphinx in China dismantled on the grounds that the monument is a “blatant copy” that Egypt did not approve, the South China Morning Post reports.
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