World
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International
7/17/2023 11:13:28 AM
Even during a year of sobering economic news for media companies, the layoffs of three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists on a single day hit like a gut punch.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/1/2023 1:19:20 PM
CIA Director William Burns recently travelled to Ukraine where he met with intelligence counterparts and President Volodymyr Zelensky, a US official confirmed to AFP Friday, with a US newspaper confirming the visit happened in June before the Wagner mutiny.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/19/2023 10:48:06 PM
The Egyptian State Information Service (SIS) issued a statement in response to what it called the "fallacies and allegations" contained in a report published by the British newspaper The Economist on the economic and political situation in Egypt.
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World
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International
4/27/2023 3:28:53 PM
One of the world's oldest newspapers still in print, Austria's Wiener Zeitung, will primarily move online, after a decision Thursday by the country's parliament.
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Egypt
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Tourism
4/16/2023 6:16:38 PM
Egypt's unique tourist destinations and competitive pricing have recently been highlighted by various international newspapers and websites, according to a statement by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiques on Sunday.
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World
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Region
4/2/2023 5:17:58 PM
Three people were found wounded on Sunday, one critically, after clashes began on Friday between armed groups in the Harsha neighbourhood west of the city of Zawiya, the Libyan newspaper Al-Shahed reported.
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World
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International
3/31/2023 6:17:45 PM
President Joe Biden is urging Russia to release Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich, whom the country’s security service arrested on espionage charges, allegations the newspaper denies
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World
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International
3/30/2023 6:52:08 PM
Russia's security service arrested an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a U.S. correspondent has been detained on spying accusations since the Cold War. The newspaper denied the allegations and demanded his release.
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World
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Region
3/27/2023 3:01:05 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce a freeze on the government's judicial overhaul as his far-right government is facing more protests and a general strike on Monday against its controversial push to overhaul the justice system, Likud Party sources told Haartez newspaper.
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World
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International
3/27/2023 1:03:38 PM
Britain's Prince Harry on Monday made an unexpected appearance at London's high court when he arrived for a hearing in his claim against a newspaper publisher over allegations of unlawful information gathering.
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World
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Region
3/20/2023 4:42:10 PM
Sudanese civilian officials and military commanders agreed to sign a final agreement in April paving the way for the transfer of power to civilians, Khalid Omer, the process’ spokesman announced, according to the Sudan Tribune newspaper.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/14/2023 12:26:52 PM
Jiang Yanyong, a Chinese military doctor who revealed the full extent of the 2003 SARS outbreak has died, a long-time acquaintance and a Hong Kong newspaper said Tuesday.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
2/13/2023 1:24:47 PM
Iran has released an award-winning filmmaker more than six months after arresting him for criticizing the government, a pro-reform newspaper reported Monday.
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World
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International
1/11/2023 12:50:07 PM
French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iran's religious rulers on Tuesday, with fresh cartoons of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei despite protests from Iran and its allies.
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World
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Region
12/17/2022 3:45:18 PM
Iran has arrested the lawyer of two female journalists jailed after covering the death in custody of a young woman that sparked three months of protests, a newspaper said Saturday.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
12/4/2022 1:12:10 PM
Cuban cultural authorities have declared the musical movement known as Nueva Trova, a folk-music genre melding poetry and progressive politics, to be part of the nation's cultural heritage, the official newspaper Granma reported Saturday.
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World
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Region
12/3/2022 7:07:47 PM
Iranian film star Mitra Hajjar was arrested at her home Saturday, the reformist newspaper Shargh reported.
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Egypt
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Society
12/1/2022 7:27:09 PM
Marking the hundredth anniversary of the late Egyptian politician and diplomat Boutros Ghaly’s birth, Al-Ahram newspaper, in cooperation with “Kemet Boutros Ghaly establishment for Peace and Knowledge”, has organized a roundtable on the active role played by Ghaly as a prominent figure in the history of Egyptian diplomacy and journalism.
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Opinion
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11/15/2022 8:38:28 PM
I was told many years ago about a common refrain in newsrooms: “If it bleeds, it leads”. In other words, the bloodier an event, the more prominent its place in the newspaper or bulletin.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/6/2022 7:41:31 PM
Egypt’s French language newspaper Al-Ahram Hebdo released on Sunday a special edition tackling the issues of climate change in conjunction with the start of the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, which takes place until 18 November in the Red sea city of Sharm El-Sheikh.
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