Sunday evening will reportedly see the Egyptian pyramids illuminated with the colors of the Russian and French flags, in a show of solidarity with Moscow and Paris.

Egypt's pyramids in Giza will be illuminated on Sunday night with the colors of the Russian and French national flags in solidarity with the victims of the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris and the October 31 crash of a Russian passenger airliner over Sinai Peninsula, media reports said.

The pyramids are due to light up at 9:30 Cairo Local Time (22:30 Moscow time); the colors will alternate between the flags of Egypt and France as well as the flags of Egypt and Russia, according to the Egyptian state news agency MENA.

© AFP 2020 / JOHANNES EISELE The Oriental Pearl TV Tower (C),in the Lujiazui Financial District in Pudong, is lit in red, white and blue, resembling the colours of the French flag, in Shanghai on November 14, 2015

The agency reported that the national flags of Russia (white, blue and red) France (blue, white and red), and Egypt (red, white and black) will also be raised around the pyramids during the ceremony, which will wrap up with a minute of silence.

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The ceremony comes a day after several landmark buildings across the world were lit up with the French tricolor flag, including the Empire State Building in New York, the Sydney Opera House, the CN Tower in Toronto,