Egypt
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Urban & Transport
11/29/2022 6:12:33 PM
Following three days of intensive debates, Egypt’s Senate gave the thumbs up Tuesday to a new bill that would allow a wider scope of illegal building violations to be settled and reconciled.
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World
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International
11/26/2022 7:57:00 PM
Heavy rainfall triggered a massive landslide early Saturday on the southern Italian resort island of Ischia that destroyed buildings and swept parked cars into the sea, leaving at least one person dead and up to 12 missing.
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World
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Region
11/26/2022 1:12:29 PM
Qatari authorities say a fire has broken out at an under-construction building in a newly built city where a World Cup match is set to be played Saturday evening but caused no injuries
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
11/26/2022 12:24:00 PM
Industrial and building projects will receive a raft of financial incentives under a new set of legislative amendments.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/25/2022 4:15:21 PM
Natalia Kristenko's dead body lay covered in a blanket in the doorway of her apartment building for hours overnight.
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World
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Region
11/23/2022 5:22:14 PM
A magnitude-5.9 earthquake hit a town in northwestern Turkey early Wednesday, causing damage to some buildings and widespread panic. At least 68 people were injured, mostly while trying to flee homes.
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World
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International
11/22/2022 11:55:00 AM
Indonesian authorities say the death toll from Monday's earthquake on Java has leapt to 252 as more bodies have been discovered under collapsed buildings.
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World
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International
11/22/2022 11:33:15 AM
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake left more than 160 dead and hundreds injured as buildings crumbled and terrified residents ran for their lives on Indonesia's main island of Java.
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World
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Region
11/21/2022 7:04:01 PM
Turkey summoned the Swedish ambassador on Monday after images that allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and served as Kurdish militant propaganda were projected on the Turkish Embassy building in Stockholm, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.
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World
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International
11/21/2022 10:45:21 AM
An earthquake shook Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday, killing at least 46 people, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital's streets for safety.
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World
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Region
11/20/2022 2:46:26 PM
The United States is reinforcing defence infrastructure in the Middle East, at a time of tension with Iran which likely abandoned a plan to attack Saudi Arabia due to security ties, a US official said Sunday.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 12:17:19 PM
It's a desert, where little grows. It's a climate conference, where water is scarce inside buildings and out, lines are long, tempers are short, meetings go late and above all progress comes in one-drop drips.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/15/2022 11:24:55 PM
The four-pillar Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace initiative was launched at the COP27 this week in a bid to create synergies between climate change and peace-building.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/15/2022 7:57:15 PM
Russia's missile strikes on Ukraine Tuesday, some of which hit residential buildings in Kyiv, will increase the concerns among the G20 countries over the impact around the world of the war, the White House said.
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Egypt
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Society
11/14/2022 10:37:52 PM
A cabinet committee tasked with legalising the status of unlicensed Christian places of worship approved on Monday the legalisation of 125 churches and service buildings that had been operating without a permit, the cabinet said in a statement.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/11/2022 10:30:00 AM
The foreign minister of Pakistan spoke with Ahmed Morsy on how Islamabad has been affected by climate change and the successful inclusion of loss and damage on the COP27 agenda
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World
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Region
11/7/2022 5:13:18 PM
A fire broke out early Monday at a 35-story high-rise in downtown Dubai near the world's tallest building, racing up the side of the structure in the same way seen in other blazes fueled by flammable siding material.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
11/2/2022 6:08:08 PM
A Giza misdemeanour court sentenced the landlord of Faisal building to both 3 year imprisonment and an EGP 80 million fine for endangering the residents' lives and for constructing a building without a permit.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 3:39:46 PM
Two huge car bombings rocked Somalia's education ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday causing casualties and shattering windows of nearby buildings, police and witnesses said.
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World
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Region
10/25/2022 10:31:47 PM
Libya's Tripoli-based prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah signed two deals with Turkey's defence minister on Tuesday, building on a 2019 agreement that angered European nations.
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