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Topping Egypt-related in the foreign press over the weekend was the release <\/strong>of the highly anticipated Assassin\u2019s Creed Origins<\/strong> game which is set in Egypt. Reviews for the game<\/a> appear to be favorable, with IGN.com rating it a 9\/10, while other outlets are noting the historical accuracy<\/a> of the game.<\/p>\n

Coming in at a close second are wire pickups<\/a> of a shootout between Egyptian security forces and militants in the Western Desert<\/strong> which led to 13 militants killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo You Can Build It\u201d hopes to bolster El Sisi\u2019s popularity ahead of elections:<\/strong> With President Abdel Fattah El Sisi yet to announce a run for reelection next year, Reuters zeroes in on the \u201cSo You Can Build It\u201d campaign<\/a> which aims to bolster his popularity ahead of the elections. The campaign, which is made up of leading industry and academic figures as well as and pop culture icons, is hoping to lend legitimacy to El Sisi\u2019s expected reelection bid in the absence of any formidable opposition, the newswire says in the report.<\/p>\n

Price caps on private sector are a means to curb costs on universal healthcare:<\/strong> Imposing price caps on private-sector healthcare providers appears to be a means to limit expenditures on the new healthcare plan set out by the Universal Healthcare Act, argues Joseph El Cassabgui for the Huffpost<\/a>. \u201cDozens of professional syndicates have voiced their opposition to the bill, fearing that the new bill, by allowing private companies to negotiate with the government, will push up healthcare costs,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

Coverage of the crackdown on the LGBTQ community in Egypt continued in the <\/strong>international media going into the weekend.<\/strong> Vice\u2019s Mike Miksche<\/a> writes about how dating apps are now working actively to protect their users. \u201cWe are being hunted,\u201d a member of the community tells Bel Trew in a piece she wrote for The Daily Beast<\/a>, in which the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights says the current crackdown includes the \u201chighest number of arrests ever recorded in Egypt.\u201d Rolling Stone<\/a> gets the perspective of the band, Mashrou\u2019 Leila, whose concert saw the rainbow flag raising incident that sparked the crackdown.<\/p>\n

Also worth noting in brief:<\/p>\n