World
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International
9/5/2023 3:55:12 PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts to eliminate what it sees as colonial-era names.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/29/2023 8:19:42 PM
The divided and partisan nature of US television is an image of the intense polarisation of politics in the country, writes Azza Radwan Sedky
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World
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Region
8/29/2023 10:59:51 AM
Anti-government protests in southern Syria have entered their second week, with demonstrators waving the colorful flag of the minority Druze community, burning banners of President Bashar Assad and at one point raiding several offices of his ruling party.
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World
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Region
8/28/2023 3:34:47 PM
Iran and Iraq have reached an agreement to disarm members of Iranian Kurdish dissident groups based in northern Iraq and relocate their members from their current bases, officials from the two countries said Monday.
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World
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Region
8/24/2023 12:12:43 PM
Three members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed Thursday in a Turkish drone strike in Iraq's Kurdistan region, authorities said, as Ankara's top diplomat visited the northern region.
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Egypt
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Presidential Elections 2024
8/23/2023 9:14:00 PM
Egypt's parliamentary majority party Mostaqbal Watan (the Nation's Future) announced that it would give its backing to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi should he decide to run in the 2024 presidential election.
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World
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Region
8/23/2023 2:13:22 PM
Angry protesters raided the local offices of the ruling Baath party in a southern Syrian province Wednesday, as protests intensified against the country's government during a severe economic and financial crisis battering the war-torn country.
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World
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International
8/22/2023 9:53:21 AM
Divisive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand on Tuesday after years of self-imposed exile to face possible criminal penalties on the same day that a party affiliated with him plans to start forming a new government.
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World
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International
8/19/2023 7:31:26 PM
The vice-chairman of jailed Pakistani former prime minister Imran Khan's party was arrested on Saturday, a spokesman said, part of a widening crackdown on the former ruling party.
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World
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International
8/19/2023 5:38:08 PM
Turkey's ruling party spokesman on Saturday criticised UN peacekeepers for blocking the construction of a controversial road in the buffer zone dividing Cyprus, calling their attitude "unacceptable" and "extremely wrong".
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Business
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Economy
8/17/2023 12:17:01 PM
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for patience in a speech released as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a deepening economic slump and said Western countries are “increasingly in trouble” because of their materialism and “spiritual poverty.”
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Egypt
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Presidential Elections 2024
8/14/2023 7:44:08 PM
Potential Presidential candidate and Al-Wafd party chairman Abdel-Sanad Yamama said his party has begun preparing for the upcoming presidential elections, asserting that the party's offices throughout Egypt will play a significant role in supporting his campaign.
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World
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Region
8/13/2023 11:02:24 AM
Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to stave off a challenge from the political opposition.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
8/12/2023 11:19:06 AM
Five decades after a Bronx block party ushered in hip-hop's 'Big Bang' moment, the culture-shifting genre celebrated its 50th birthday Friday.
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Sports
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World
8/7/2023 3:13:20 PM
Ticker tape was still strewn across the field inside Istanbul's Ataturk Olimpiyat Stadium and Manchester City fans weren't done partying in the stands when Pep Guardiola issued an ominous warning to his rivals.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/1/2023 8:50:02 PM
The birth of Egypt’s 1923 constitution occurred under highly complex circumstances.
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World
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Africa
8/1/2023 12:35:35 PM
Senegal’s government Monday dissolved a major opposition party hours after the party’s popular president and opposition leader said a judge ordered his arrest.
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World
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International
7/31/2023 7:27:12 PM
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Monday for a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan that killed at least 54 people, including 23 children, at a political party gathering ahead of elections due later this year.
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World
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International
7/31/2023 10:17:10 AM
At least 44 people were killed and more nearly 200 others wounded Sunday by a suicide bombing at a political gathering of a leading Islamic party in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
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World
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Region
7/30/2023 10:54:07 PM
Yuli Edelstein, head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee and a senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, told Israel's Army Radio that it is too early to talk about a normalization deal in the works.
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