China's Xi Visits Kyrgyzstan and Egypt for SCO Summit

China's Xi Jinping left Beijing for state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt, where he will attend the SCO summit. The trip highlights China-Egypt practical cooperation, which has yielded fruitful outcomes. In separate developments, Egypt secured the release of an Egyptian engineer held in Congo-Brazzaville and extended condolences to Cyprus over a deadly boat capsizing.