Egypt’s Education Ministry is organizing a celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the country’s rescue of Nubian monuments and sites from submersion in water, in cooperation with the United Nations (UN) and Ministry of Culture. The celebration...اقرأ المزيد
PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) – The toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia soared on Sunday to 832 confirmed dead, with authorities fearing it will only climb as rescuers struggle to reach outlying communities cut off from communications and help. Dozens...اقرأ المزيد
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish region was holding long-delayed parliamentary elections on Sunday, a year after a vote for independence sparked a punishing backlash from Baghdad, leaving Kurdish leaders deeply divided. More than 700 candidates...اقرأ المزيد
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, who were among thousands of people who thronged to the fortified Gaza Strip border on Friday as part of weekly protests launched half a year ago, Gaza health officials...اقرأ المزيد
A senior-level delegation of the Japanese House of Representatives paid a visit to Alexandria’s Borg El Arab Airport on Saturday, inspecting work on its extension project, Middle East News Agency reported. The Ministry of Aviation announced its cooperation...اقرأ المزيد
New Valley governorate, on Sunday, was hit by dust storms that affected several highways, and hindered visibility in the governorate’s western and southern parts. The New Valley Traffic Department instructed drivers and motorists to be vigilant, and...اقرأ المزيد
Minister of Health Hala Zayed said on Sunday that her ministry would launch an anti-Hepatitis C campaign in October 1, aiming to “eliminate the virus by 2020” by “detecting the early symptoms of pressure, diabetes, and obesity diseases which cause...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education Khalid Abdel Ghaffar has announced construction of three large universities in the New el-Alamein City, by the Mediterranean Sea. During a phone-in with al-Hekaya TV show on MBC Masr channel, Ghaffar said that 40%...اقرأ المزيد
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri met with his Sudanese counterpart Dardari Mohamad Ahmed on Saturday, on the side-lines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York, to discuss the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The topic of trilateral...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s Education Ministry on Saturday announced that it will build 200,000 new classrooms by 2028, at an estimated cost of LE100 billion. Minister of Education Tarek Shawki stated the aim as a solution to a rapidly-growing number of Egyptian students,...اقرأ المزيد
