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World
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International
2/24/2022 3:31:53 PM
The president of Romania has condemned Russia's ``reprehensible'' attack on Ukraine and said that Russian President Vladimir Putin "threatens the peace of the entire planet.''
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World
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International
2/22/2022 10:50:47 PM
The three Russian oligarchs targeted by fresh British sanctions over Ukraine are billionaires who got rich under Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom they are key financial conduits as well as personal sporting partners.
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World
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International
2/18/2022 7:24:02 PM
An invasion is not the only way the crisis in Ukraine can play out, a diplomatic solution may yet provide an off-ramp for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose placement of tens of thousands of troops along Russia's border with its smaller neighbor kicked off the current crisis.
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World
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International
2/18/2022 4:44:24 PM
Even if the U.S. succeeds in deterring Russian President Vladimir Putin from ordering a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he will remain determined to bring Ukraine to heel and has “a whole host of options of things that he can do,” said Fiona Hill, a Russia scholar who has served in the past three U.S. administrations.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/18/2022 2:42:14 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi expressed on Friday his appreciation that Egypt would be among the first African countries to receive vaccine manufacturing support from the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) mRNA technology transfer hub.
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Sports
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World
2/17/2022 3:23:53 PM
It is a case of top meets bottom in Serie A on Saturday as leaders AC Milan visit tailenders Salernitana who have gambled on retaining their elite status by making wholesale changes since the turn of the year.
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Egypt
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Society
2/13/2022 12:23:57 PM
Egypt launched on Saturday the first-ever solar energy-powered wholesale market project in Alexandria, which is part of the EU-financed MAIA-TAQA pilot project that promotes solar cooling applications in south MED countries.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
2/7/2022 3:04:27 PM
Syl Johnson, a Chicago soul singer and blues artist whose work was sampled by top hip-hop artists, has died at age 85, his family said Sunday.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
2/7/2022 1:03:01 PM
Kuwait will ban a new film adaptation of Agatha Christie's whodunnit "Death on the Nile" with a cast of Hollywood stars including Israeli actress Gal Gadot, authorities said Sunday.
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AFCON 2021
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News
2/4/2022 12:55:30 AM
Keeper Mohamed Abou Gabal, whose penalty saves gave Egypt a 3-1 shootout win over Cameroon in the African Nations Cup semi-final on Thursday, said his side are now back to their best.
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World
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International
2/3/2022 12:42:30 PM
The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group's powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to surveil journalists, dissidents and human rights activists has long been established. It suggested its motivation was to "stay abreast of emerging technologies and tradecraft.''
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World
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Africa
2/1/2022 6:34:13 PM
Burkina Faso's new military junta held talks Tuesday with the Sahel country's political party chiefs, many of whom said they were keen to join a planned transition back to democracy.
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World
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International
1/17/2022 7:45:10 PM
The coronavirus' omicron variant starting to barrel across South America is pressuring hospitals whose employees are taking sick leave, leaving facilities understaffed to cope with COVID-19's third wave.
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World
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Region
1/9/2022 3:41:24 PM
Iraq's new parliament held its first session on Sunday, nearly three months after Iraqis voted in a general election whose results have been contested by powerful Iran-backed factions.
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World
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International
1/7/2022 11:17:58 PM
Add Kazakhstan to the list of former Soviet republics whose independence is now being threatened by Russia. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is using a similar playbook in Kazakhstan to one that he has used over almost a decade to threaten the sovereignty of Ukraine.
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World
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International
1/2/2022 11:02:06 PM
Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first days of the new year.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
1/2/2022 7:43:09 PM
Acclaimed writer and director Daoud Abdel-Sayed, whose films are considered among the most important works in Egyptian cinema, has announced his “irreversible” retirement plan.
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Books
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News
12/27/2021 3:47:19 PM
The revered author and essayist, whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as "The White Album'' and "The Year of Magical Thinking'' made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died at 87.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
12/26/2021 7:19:00 PM
Grammy-winning bluegrass musician J.D. Crowe, whose influential career spanned more than 50 years, has died at the age of 84.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
12/26/2021 2:37:48 PM
Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) is set to greenlight 11 securitised bonds, out of 26, before end of 2021 with a total value of EGP 11.5 billion, whose portfolios mainly centred on mortgage, consuming and leasing financing, Chairman of FRA Mohamed Omran stated on Sunday.
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