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Sports
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Omni sports
8/23/2024 3:41:32 PM
Britain's Lando Norris was fastest in the first practice session for the Dutch Grand Prix Friday, pipping home favourite Max Verstappen in wildly unpredictable weather conditions on the Zandvoort circuit.
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Egypt
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Health
8/19/2024 11:48:31 AM
Egypt stepped up health precautionary measures at air, sea, and land ports on Thursday 15 August, as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) a day earlier due to the upsurge of the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of African countries.
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Egypt
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Health
8/15/2024 2:15:56 PM
Egypt has stepped up health precautionary measures at all airports, seaports, and land crossings after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Mpox a global health emergency, the country’s Ministry of Health and Population announced on Thursday.
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World
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Africa
8/14/2024 7:54:03 PM
At least 39 people are still missing following a massive garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital Kampala at the weekend that has so far claimed 26 lives, police said Wednesday.
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World
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International
8/14/2024 6:36:25 PM
A European Union satellite mapping agency says 104 sq. kilometres (40 sq. miles) of land was burned northeast of Athens this week during a deadly wildfire that gutted dozens of homes and prompted multiple countries to send assistance.
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World
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Africa
8/13/2024 12:21:02 PM
The death toll from a mountain of garbage that collapsed in Kampala has risen to 25 with no hope of finding survivors, a minister said Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/12/2024 8:57:19 PM
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty met on Monday his Rwandan counterpart Olivier Nduhungirehe, where the latter announced land allocation by his country for Egypt near the Tanzanian borders to establish a logistics zone, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated.
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World
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Africa
8/12/2024 4:46:27 PM
Esther Nalukwago, a 42-year-old mother of twins, fled half-dressed in panic when a torrent of rotting garbage engulfed her home in the Ugandan capital Kampala, in a disaster that has claimed the lives of at least 23 people including children.
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World
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Region
8/12/2024 12:14:20 PM
Iran's former foreign minister Javad Zarif, who negotiated a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with major would powers, on Monday announced he had resigned from his new post as vice president.
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World
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International
8/10/2024 11:54:17 AM
Wildfires in Oregon have burned more acres of land in 2024 than in any year since reliable records began, authorities said late Friday, with the mid-August peak of fire season still on the horizon.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/7/2024 1:58:53 PM
A bridge lined with ornate statues overlooks an Olympic open water course like no other. The Eiffel Tower, gold-domed Invalides and other Paris landmarks provide a stunning backdrop. Yet there was no getting around concerns about the safety of swimming in the long-polluted Seine River, not to mention contending with its strong current.
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World
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International
8/5/2024 5:54:31 PM
Hurricane Debby reached the Big Bend coast of Florida early Monday, bringing with it the potential for catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge as it slowly passes over the northern part of the state. Forecasters warned that, in the coming days, record-setting rain could pummel coastal Georgia and South Carolina as the storm heads east.
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World
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International
8/4/2024 5:59:19 PM
A landslide that hit a village in southwestern China and caused a highway bridge to collapse killed at least eight people and left 19 missing, state media said Sunday.
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Paris 2024
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Features
8/2/2024 8:41:06 PM
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has landed in the middle of a divide about gender in sports after her Italian competitor, Angela Carini, pulled out seconds into their bout at the Paris Olympics.
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Egypt
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Society
7/31/2024 8:44:40 PM
Al-Azhar, the world's leading Islamic Sunni institution, strongly condemned on Wednesday the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas' Political Bureau, in Tehran earlier Wednesday describing it as a “heinous crime committed by a treacherous occupying entity”
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World
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International
7/31/2024 11:41:54 AM
Relentless downpours and howling winds hampered Wednesday's search for survivors of landslides that struck Indian tea plantations and killed at least 150 people, most believed to be labourers and their families.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/30/2024 8:14:17 PM
Egypt expressed on Tuesday its full solidarity with the government and people of India following multiple landslides in the city of Wayanad, which resulted in several deaths and injuries.
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World
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Africa
7/30/2024 4:49:08 PM
The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of the country’s biggest national parks, according to the African Union's commission on human rights.
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Paris 2024
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News
7/29/2024 9:00:36 PM
Japan's Yuto Horigome landed the highest-scoring trick of the men's street skateboarding competition in Monday's final round to retain his Olympic crown.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
7/29/2024 4:22:05 PM
The board of directors of the Egyptian public tobacco company Eastern Company S.A.E has approved the selling of the land, buildings, and currently rented equipment of factory no. 9 to the United Tobacco Company (UTC), a subsidiary of the American tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI), for EGP 1.584 billion.
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