Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the Sharm el-Sheikh peace conference hosted by President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

CAIRO — Three employees of Qatar's Amiri Diwan, its top government body, were killed in a car crash near Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Qatar's embassy in Egypt said in a post on X on Sunday.

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shared another long, aggressive handshake while meeting at the signing of the Gaza peace agreement in Egypt.

President Donald Trump claimed Monday that Egypt's president had skipped a meeting with his 2016 rival, Clinton.

U.S. President Donald Trump embarked on a whirlwind trip to the Middle East on Monday to cement the end of the war between Israel and Hamas, and to reaffirm his ambitions to usher in peace between the two.

Egypt is poised to complete another debt swap before the end of this year with its European partners, according to Planning Minister Rania al-Mashat, adding that more such transactions were also in the pipeline for next year.

— Unbridled speechifying: Trump’s pre-Egypt stop in Israel to address the Knesset went long. Israeli lawmakers ran up the clock. The president was impressed, but knew he had guests waiting at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. “They might not be there by the time I get there, but we’ll give it a shot,” Trump joked.