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COP27
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Climate change
10/30/2022 10:25:36 AM
Little rainfall, aggressive heatwaves and worsening drought make the Middle East the most water-stressed region in the world, with climate change threatening to displace millions of people.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 11:19:08 PM
A gas tanker exploded near a soccer field in northeastern Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding 10 others, according to security officials.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 10:00:16 PM
A gun attack in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron wounded five people on Saturday, including four Israelis and a Palestinian, with the assailant shot dead, Israel's emergency services and the Israeli occupation army said.
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World
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International
10/29/2022 8:19:23 PM
At least 120 people were killed and 100 more were injured as they were crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital of Seoul, South Korean officials said.
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World
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Africa
10/29/2022 7:31:31 PM
At least nine people, including children, died on Saturday in twin car bomb attacks targeting Somalia's education ministry in the capital Mogadishu, security officers and witnesses said.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 1:19:41 PM
The gunman who killed 15 people at a major Shia holy site in southern Iran earlier this week died on Saturday, Iranian media reported.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/28/2022 1:04:39 PM
The number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years, according to a report by the World Health Organization.
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World
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Region
10/27/2022 9:37:28 PM
Iranian security forces have killed at least eight people since Wednesday evening as they push on with a deadly crackdown against nearly six weeks of women-led protests, Amnesty International said.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/27/2022 5:52:31 PM
Dutch police arrested three people after climate activists targeted Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague on Thursday.
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World
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Africa
10/27/2022 5:44:07 PM
Armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State group have massacred hundreds of people in northeast Mali this year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday, adding the state was not doing enough to protect civilians.
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World
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Region
10/26/2022 11:06:23 PM
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack Wednesday on a Shia Muslim shrine in southern Iran that state media said killed more than a dozen people.
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World
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Region
10/26/2022 9:23:35 PM
Moroccan police said Wednesday they had broken up a people smuggling gang in a northern town near the site of a deadly border tragedy in June.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/26/2022 8:11:35 PM
They say that every era has its own state and its own discourse. The former has to do with the movement of the universe and human affairs, violent and happy, tangible and intangible. The latter has to do with how people describe the times and the interplay of words and deeds, which often includes the use of arms.
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World
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Region
10/26/2022 6:37:37 PM
Gunmen opened fire Wednesday at a major Shia holy site in the southern city of Shiraz, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, according to state-run media.
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World
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Africa
10/26/2022 5:16:10 PM
The United Nations says close to 1 million drought-affected people in Somalia are in areas under the control or influence of the al-Shabab extremist group, and it appealed to the fighters to allow humanitarian access as famine threatens the country.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/26/2022 4:39:22 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Egypt-UAE relations are an ideal example for good and strong ties binding two brotherly countries and peoples as the two countries celebrated 50 years of close collaboration.
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COP27
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Focus
10/26/2022 2:05:52 PM
The European Union's executive arm sought on Wednesday to toughen up pollution restrictions to ensure that harmful pollutants are eliminated by 2050 to potentially save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Books
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Reviews
10/26/2022 9:14:00 AM
Naas men El-Minya (People from Minya) by: Mostafa Bayoumi, (Cairo: Magaz Cultural Foundation), 2019.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
10/25/2022 10:45:11 PM
There is a hurry and a flurry — a hustle and a bustle — a mysterious force driving people around the world to visit Egypt.
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World
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Africa
10/25/2022 4:37:31 PM
Peace talks to end Ethiopia's Tigray conflict have begun in South Africa, a South African government spokesman said Tuesday. It is the highest-level effort yet to end two years of fighting that has killed perhaps hundreds of thousands of people.
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