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

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.

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.

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.

The meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, could expedite an end to the Gaza war, but regional powers must still resolve the thorny details that have stymied negotiations.

Egypt proposed an initial deployment of 1,000 security personnel trained in Jordan or Egypt, aiming to gradually expand the effort to enforce post-ceasefire security. Negotiations between Israel and Hamas have entered a new stage,

— 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.

Egypt has a plan for the drilling of 480 exploratory oil wells on the basis of investments totalling $5.7 billion over the next 5 years, the country's petroleum minister said on Tuesday, as the country seeks to reverse declining production.