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World
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International
10/12/2022 7:53:45 PM
Case numbers in the global monkeypox outbreak have now topped 70,000, the WHO announced Wednesday as it warned that declining new cases did not mean people should drop their guard.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/12/2022 6:53:06 PM
About 500 people have died in Nigeria's worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others been displaced from their homes since the start of the rainy season, the government said.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
10/12/2022 5:03:23 PM
Four people were killed and 10 others were injured on Wednesday when a microbus flipped over on the western Cairo-Assiut Desert Road after a tire blew out, authorities said.
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World
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Region
10/12/2022 10:36:58 AM
At least 108 people have been killed in Iran's crackdown on more than three weeks of nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, said Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights.
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World
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:48:37 PM
Around 909,000 people have reportedly been affected by flooding in South Sudan, the UN's emergency response agency said Tuesday, more than doubling estimates released last month as torrential rains ravage crops and destroy homes.
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World
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Africa
10/10/2022 10:12:05 PM
A boat overloaded with passengers fleeing flooding in southeastern Nigeria capsized and 76 people remain missing days later and are feared dead, emergency officials said Monday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/10/2022 4:11:47 PM
Mass retaliatory Russian strikes across Ukraine on Monday killed at least 10 people and hurt dozens more, according to the national police service.
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World
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International
10/10/2022 2:06:56 PM
Airbus and Air France go on trial on manslaughter charges Monday over the crash of a Rio-Paris flight in 2009 that plunged into the Atlantic amid thunderstorms, killing all 228 people aboard and leading to changes in air safety regulations.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/10/2022 12:01:27 PM
A landslide fueled by flooding and days of torrential rain swept through a municipality in central Venezuela, leaving at least 22 people dead as it dragged mud, rocks and trees through neighborhoods, authorities said Sunday. Dozens of people are missing.
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World
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International
10/9/2022 10:17:55 PM
Thousands of people rallied Sunday in Bosnia for the second time in a week, alleging that a pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader rigged a ballot during a general election in the Balkan country earlier this month.
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COP27
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Focus
10/9/2022 1:29:44 PM
Older people with limited mobility and those with chronic health conditions requiring the use of electrically powered medical devices were especially vulnerable when Hurricane Ian slammed into Southwest Florida, and experts warn such risks to society's oldest are growing as disasters increase with the impact of climate change.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/9/2022 9:51:40 AM
A Russian barrage pounded apartment buildings and other targets in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens, officials said Sunday.
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World
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Region
10/8/2022 5:14:27 PM
Anti-government demonstrations erupted Saturday in several locations across Iran as the most sustained protests in years against a deeply entrenched theocracy entered their fourth week. At least two people were killed.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
10/8/2022 4:59:00 PM
African young people are demanding that their views on climate change be heard,.
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Egypt
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Politics
10/8/2022 3:52:16 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi congratulated the Egyptian people and the Arab and Islamic nations across the world on the anniversary of the birth of Prophet Muhammad – Moulid El-Nabi.
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World
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International
10/8/2022 3:23:52 PM
The back-to-back shipwrecks of migrant smuggling boats off Greece have once again put the spotlight on the dangers of the Mediterranean migration route, the risks migrants and refugees are willing to take and the political infighting that has thwarted a safe European response to people fleeing war, poverty and climate change.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/8/2022 2:12:05 PM
Russian investigators Saturday said three people were killed after a truck exploded on its bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to the mainland, adding that the owner of the vehicle had been identified.
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Books
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Reviews
10/6/2022 3:55:26 PM
With a thorough read through the press of the days leading to 6 October 1973, two historians drew a picture of a nation in pursuit of reversing defeat and regaining land occupied by Israel.
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World
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Africa
10/6/2022 10:42:52 AM
Babies in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for over 5 million people, according to the most sweeping study yet of how mothers and children are suffering.
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Sports
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World
10/5/2022 5:59:37 PM
Hosting World Cup matches in 2030 would be ``the dream of people who survived the horrors of war,'' Ukrainian soccer federation president Andriy Pavelko said Wednesday after his country launched a joint bid with Spain and Portugal.
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