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Arts & Culture
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Music
8/26/2022 1:00:00 PM
Turkish pop star Gulsen has been arrested on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” over a joke she made about Turkey's religious schools, the country's state-run news agency reported.
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World
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Region
8/25/2022 12:10:34 PM
Russia has widely used cluster bombs in Ukraine, causing hundreds of civilian casualties and damaging homes, schools and hospitals, a monitoring body said Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/9/2022 10:46:05 PM
Roman Catholic Pope Francis’ recent visit to Canada was an opportunity for the Church to apologise for its role in abuses at Canadian residential schools, writes Azza Radwan Sedky
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
8/4/2022 9:52:33 PM
Rights group Amnesty International accuses Ukrainian forces of violating international law and endangering civilians by establishing bases in residential areas, including in schools and hospitals.
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World
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International
7/26/2022 10:12:23 AM
Pope Francis on Monday apologized for the "evil" inflicted on the Indigenous peoples of Canada on the first day of a visit focused on addressing decades of abuse at Catholic-run residential schools.
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World
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International
7/24/2022 10:50:11 AM
Pope Francis began a fraught visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church's efforts to reconcile with Native communities and help them heal from generations of trauma.
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World
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Region
7/3/2022 7:36:04 PM
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka on Sunday extended school closures for one week because there isn't enough fuel for teachers and parents to get children to classrooms, and the energy minister appealed to the country's expatriates to send money home through banks to finance new oil purchases.
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World
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International
6/20/2022 11:32:19 AM
Sri Lanka closed schools and halted all non-essential government services on Monday, beginning a two-week shutdown to conserve fast-depleting fuel reserves as the International Monetary Fund opened talks with Colombo on a possible bailout.
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World
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International
5/25/2022 1:43:21 PM
An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom at a Texas elementary school in a rampage that also left two adults dead, officials said, adding to a gruesome, yearslong series of mass killings at churches, schools and stores.
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World
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International
4/28/2022 2:37:41 PM
Beijing is closing all city schools in a further tightening of COVID-19 restrictions, as China's capital seeks to prevent a wider outbreak.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/26/2022 12:18:01 PM
Ahram Online talked to world renowned psychotherapist Dr. Stephen Paul Adler about Freud and Milton Ericson’s schools in dealing with the unconscious mind.
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World
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International
3/31/2022 4:23:39 PM
Drums pounded through the frescoed halls of the Apostolic Palace on Thursday and out into St. Peter's Square as Pope Francis welcomed a First Nations delegation seeking an apology for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's notorious residential schools.
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World
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International
3/25/2022 4:32:35 PM
Female foreign ministers from 16 countries around the world said Friday they are "deeply disappointed'' that Afghan girls are being denied access to secondary schools and called on the Taliban to reverse their decision.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/24/2022 6:34:23 PM
The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution blaming Russia for humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and urging an immediate cease-fire and protection for millions of civilians and the homes, schools and hospitals critical to their survival.
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World
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International
3/24/2022 11:26:24 AM
China's foreign minister made a surprise stop in Kabul on Thursday to meet Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, even as the international community fumes over the hardline movement's broken promise a day earlier to open schools to girls beyond Grade 6.
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Sports
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Africa
2/21/2022 5:42:21 PM
FIFA President Gianni Infantino attended a stunning final day of the African School Champions Cup in Kinshasa as Morocco becoming the inaugural winners of the girls’ tournament following victory over South Africa in the final, whilst hosts DR Congo were presented with the boys’ trophy.
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Egypt
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Society
2/15/2022 3:28:07 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Education and Goethe Institute — the cultural centre of the Federal Republic of Germany — signed on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish cooperation in the fields of German Language teaching.
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World
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Region
2/2/2022 12:26:12 PM
Some public universities opened in Afghanistan on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August, with a trickle of women attending classes that officials said would be segregated by sex.
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World
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Region
1/24/2022 10:54:53 PM
Europe's busiest airport shut down in Istanbul on Monday while schools and vaccination centers closed in Athens as a rare snowstorm blanketed swathes of the eastern Mediterranean, causing blackouts and traffic havoc.
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World
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International
1/22/2022 7:00:17 PM
Food banks across the country are experiencing a critical shortage of volunteers as the omicron variant frightens people away from their usual shifts, and companies and schools that regularly supply large groups of volunteers are canceling their participation over virus fears.
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