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El-Sissi could win by a landslide but a low voter turnout could put into question any mandate he receives.
Meanwhile, Boko Haram fighters have killed 54 people, including police, in the northeastern state of Yobe.
Although he won popular support after the January 2011 uprising, his rival Hamdeen Sabahi is expected to lose, say most poll numbers.
He will be the first Pontiff to cross from Jordan into the West Bank - occupied by Israel since 1967 - where he will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
For many Russians, any comparison to Hitler is considered insulting, a former UK ambassador to Moscow told London's Daily Mail.
The verdict came a day after more than 320,000 Egyptian expats voted in 124 countries abroad in a presidential election scheduled to begin on May 26.
There has been no claim of responsibility, but there are suspicions that the Islamist secessionist group Boko Haram could have been behind the attack.
The Thai military had warned twice before that it would not allow the violence to spiral out of control.
"In light of this declaration of war, the Republic of Mali is henceforth at war," Mali's Prime Minister has said.
But a Center for Disease Control expert does not believe this "changes the risk to the general public”.
