Xiamen [China] - BRICS leaders unveiled the Xiamen Declaration here on Monday in which member countries unequivocally condemned terrorism in all of its forms and manifestations and called upon all states to adopt a comprehensive approach in (...)
Kent, Ohio - Egyptian composer and ethnomusicologist Halim El-Dabh passed away on 2 September in his home in Kent, Ohio, his wife Deborah wrote on social media.
In the short obituary, El-Dabh's wife wrote that he was "a prolific composer as well as (...)
Washington D.C - North Korea's "words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States," U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter in his first reaction after Pyongyang conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test (...)
CAIRO – The Italian government will report to the Foreign Affairs committees of the Italian House of Representatives and the Senate on the case of Giulio Regeni, who disappeared in Cairo in 2016, according to the Italian newspaper Articolo 21.
The (...)
CAIRO – Negotiations between the Ministries of Civil Aviation of Egypt and China are underway to increase flights between Beijing and Cairo in the wake of 2017 China-Arab States Tour Conference held on Monday, according Egypt's Minister of Tourism (...)
YANGON - The BBC's Burmese language service on Monday said it was pulling a broadcasting deal with a popular Myanmar television channel citing "censorship", with insiders saying the partners had clashed over coverage of the Muslim Rohingya minority. (...)
CAIRO – Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called on the BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) to bring more investments in Egypt on Monday as his country takes measures to provide a "good atmosphere" for foreign (...)
Cairo - The World Bank Group consented to pump direct investments in Egypt at a cost of $500 million, through implementing projects in the petroleum and gas sector, Minister of Investment and International Cooperation and Egypt's Governor at the (...)
Cairo - Alexandria's Deputy Governor Saod El-Kholy was arrested on Sunday on several corruption charges, including bribery, profiting and squandering public funds, Egypt's Administrative Control Authority (ACA) said in a statement.
The ACA said that (...)
Cairo - Member of the Saudi Arabian royal family Prince Khaled bin Waleed Al Saud is interested in establishing projects in Sharm El-Sheikh, according to a Monday statement from Egypt's Investment Ministry.
In a meeting with Minister of Investment (...)
Cairo - Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry held a meeting, on Monday, with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk.
Shoukry conveyed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's greetings to Belarus President.
Egypt's Foreign Minister (...)
Minsk - Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry affirmed Monday that Egypt is continuing its efforts to reach political solutions to both the Syrian and Libyan situations.
He added during a press conference held in Minsk with his Belarusian (...)
CAIRO – The Minister of Culture Helmy al-Namnam will attend the closing show for the play ‘The Day They Killed Singing" at Al-Tali'ah Theater.
The play presents the struggle between two brothers in the quest for the cause of existence and the (...)
Washington DC - U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis will travel to Jordan, Turkey and Ukraine later this month, the Pentagon said on Friday.
Mattis will begin his trip in Jordan where he will meet with King Abdullah. Jordan is a member of the (...)
Barcelona - At least one person died and 32 were injured after a van rammed into a crowd of people in a terror attack in the heart of Barcelona.
The number is "bound to rise" as some people are seriously injured, Joaquim Forn, interior councilor for (...)
Barcelona - The attack took place in central Barcelona. Las Ramblas, a street of stalls and shops that cuts through the center of Barcelona, is one of the city's top tourist destinations. People walk down a wide, pedestrianized path in the center of (...)
Damascus – The Islamist rebels of Faylaq Al-Rahman received a rude awakening on Sunday night when the Syrian Arab Army's 42nd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division unleashed a vicious assault on the east Damascus suburbs of Jobar and ‘Ayn (...)
Washington D.C.- US President Donald Trump has dismissed Anthony Scaramucci from the White House communications director post only 10 days after he was appointed.
It comes days after Scaramucci, 53, unloaded on former chief of staff Reince Priebus (...)
CAIRO – "Hamas and Taliban have offices in Doha," stated Michael Morell, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who added, "They are also supporting them and others with money and arms, including Al Nusra, another (...)
Cairo - Egypt received three Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets from France on Thursday, the second batch of the jets to be dispatched as part of a deal signed last year (2016).
The two-warplane batch makes the sum of Rafale that Egypt has (...)
Cairo - President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi delivered a speech in al-Hammam City Saturday morning, on the sidelines of the inauguration of Mohamed Naguib military base, dubbed the largest military base in the Middle East and Africa. The base is located (...)
Doha - Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani has given his first public speech since a diplomatic crisis with neighboring Gulf and Arab countries unfolded last month.
Al-Thani said that his country was "subjected to an unprecedented campaign (...)
Cairo - Twitter erupted with opinions last night following Qatar Emir's first public address since a diplomatic crisis with neighboring Gulf and Arab countries unfolded last month.
While, many in Qatar responded enthusiastically to the Emir's call (...)
Washington - US President Donald Trump received on Friday the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, who handed over his credentials as an ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the US.
During the (...)
WASHINGTON - Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, quit his position on Friday after telling President Donald Trump he disagreed with the hiring of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, reports said.
The New York Times said Trump (...)