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World
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Africa
1/22/2025 9:30:01 PM
The M23 rebel group's advance toward eastern Congo's largest city has displaced over 178,000 people in the past two weeks, the United Nations said, as the fighters closed in on Goma on the border with Rwanda.
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Business
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Economy
1/20/2025 6:10:57 PM
Egypt has secured the largest share of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) investment in the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region for the seventh consecutive year, with nearly 1.5 billion euros across 26 projects.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
1/14/2025 5:04:28 PM
Six changes are underway in the Arab world that raise important questions about their meaning and the future of the region, writes Tarek Osman
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World
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Africa
1/13/2025 2:07:07 PM
Several towns that fell to armed groups in eastern Congo’s North Kivu and South Kivu provinces have been recaptured by government forces, a Congolese army spokesman said, even as the rebels have made advances in other areas amid intensified fighting in the conflict-battered region.
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World
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International
1/12/2025 1:23:50 PM
The toll from a collision of two trams in Strasbourg has risen to 68 injured in a rare accident that sowed panic near the eastern French city's main train station, authorities said Sunday.
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World
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International
12/31/2024 4:51:04 PM
Romania and Bulgaria will become full members of the Schengen zone on Wednesday, expanding the borderless area to 29 members and ending a 13-year wait for the two eastern European countries.
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World
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Region
12/25/2024 12:03:19 PM
Pakistan air strikes in an eastern border province of Afghanistan killed 46 people, the Taliban government spokesman told AFP on Wednesday, as the defence ministry vowed retaliation.
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World
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Africa
12/15/2024 3:18:45 PM
Talks due Sunday between the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to end the conflict in the eastern DRC were called off after negotiations deadlocked, officials said.
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World
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Region
12/6/2024 3:07:56 PM
Syrian troops and their allies "suddenly" pulled out of eastern Deir Ezzor city and its surroundings Friday, Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor, told AFP.
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World
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Region
12/4/2024 12:54:18 PM
A Syria war monitor said on Wednesday that the Syrian army repelled an attack by US-backed militants in Deir Ezzor province, a day after deadly clashes in the eastern region bordering Iraq.
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World
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Region
12/4/2024 11:09:39 AM
U.S. forces conducted what it called a self-defence strike in the vicinity of Mission Support Site Euphrates, a U.S. base in eastern Syria, against three truck-mounted multiple rocket launchers, a T-64 tank and mortars that Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said presented “a clear and imminent threat” to U.S. troops.
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World
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Region
12/1/2024 7:12:17 PM
US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Lebanese-American businessman Massad Boulos as his senior advisor on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, the latest family member to be appointed to a key position.
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World
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Africa
11/30/2024 8:28:36 PM
East African heads of state made another push for peace in eastern Congo on Saturday but its prospects remained bleak following a regional summit that was marked by the Congolese president's absence and an early departure of his Rwandan counterpart.
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World
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Region
11/21/2024 7:25:21 PM
Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes on several locations in the eastern Bekaa Valley killed 22 people on Thursday, with state media reporting four family members killed in one village.
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World
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Africa
11/16/2024 10:40:43 PM
At least 13 people were killed and others kidnapped in eastern Congo by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group, local authorities said Saturday.
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World
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Region
11/10/2024 10:54:21 AM
A soldier for Yemen’s government opened fire on Saudi troops as they exercised in eastern Yemen, killing two of them and wounding another, officials said Saturday.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
11/5/2024 10:03:58 PM
Egypt’s largest tobacco producer, Eastern Company, has raised the price of its local products including cigarettes by 12 percent, effective on Tuesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/5/2024 5:17:49 PM
Palestinian Bassem Abu Aoun serves Gaza-style turkey shawarma at his restaurant in an eastern Cairo neighbourhood, where a growing number of businesses opened by those fleeing war have many dubbing the area "Little Gaza".
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World
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Region
11/2/2024 3:26:10 PM
In the Christian town of Deir al-Ahmar, Hassan Noun has pitched his tent in a church courtyard after fleeing Israeli deadly air strikes in the eastern Lebanese region of Baalbek.
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World
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International
10/31/2024 7:23:23 PM
Crews searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings Thursday as people tried to salvage what they could from their ruined homes following monstrous flash floods in Spain that claimed at least 158 lives, with 155 deaths confirmed in the eastern Valencia region alone.
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