By the Gazette Editorial Board
Almost five months after its general elections, Baghdad has finally named a prime minister to form a new government.
Adel Abdul-Mahdi was chosen by the new Iraqi President Barham Salih to form the new government that (...)
CRETE, Oct 10 , 2018 (MENA) - Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El Sisi arrived in Crete on Wednesday to attend the sixth round of the tripartite summit between Egypt, Greece and Cyprus. Leaders of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt will discuss, among other (...)
NEW DELHI , Oct 10, 2018 (News Wires) - Pressure is building on major Indian employers to take allegations of sexual harassment more seriously after a surge in the number of complaints against prominent public figures in the past week.
At least one (...)
PARIS, Oct 10, 2018 (News Wires) - France's Emmanuel Macron pushed back a planned reshuffle of his government on Wednesday, with an Elysee official saying it would not happen before the president returns from a scheduled three-day trip to (...)
CAIRO, Oct 10, 2018 (MENA) - Egyptian-Saudi Tabouk-4 military drills started on Wednesday and will last for several days in the southern military zone.
Participant Saudi land forces arrived to Egypt a few days ago for coordination with the Egyptian (...)
CAIRO, Oct 10, 2018(MENA) - Grand Imam of Azhar Ahmed el-Tayyeb led evening prayer at Hazrat Sultan Mosque, one of the largest mosques in Asia.
After the prayer, Tayyeb delivered a sermon in which he urged preachers to abide by the moderate (...)
SOFIA , Oct 10, 2018(Reuters) - A Bulgarian man has been detained in Germany and charged with the rape and murder of television journalist Viktoria Marinova, Bulgarian officials said on Wednesday.
The suspect was arrested on Tuesday at the request (...)
TAIPEI, Oct 10, 2018 (News Wires) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen vowed on Wednesday to boost national security, saying her government would not submit to Chinese suppression as Beijing ramps up pressure to assert its sovereignty over the self-ruled (...)
MOSCOW , Oct 10, 2018(News Wires) - The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday that Russia, China and North Korea had agreed on the need for five-way talks including the United States and South Korea to end tensions on the Korean (...)
ANKARA, Oct 10, 2018(News Wires) - Four people died after a migrant boat sank off the western coast of Turkey late on Tuesday, the Turkish interior ministry said on Wednesday, adding that 30 others were still missing.
The boat sank off the coast of (...)
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 , 2018 (News Wires) - US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be held after US congressional elections on Nov. 6.
Speaking to reporters as he flew to Iowa for a (...)
CAIRO, Oct 10 , 2018 (MENA) - Planning Minister Hala el Saeed said LE508 million in government investments were allocated for developing cultural services as part of the plan for fiscal year 2018-2019, with a 14-percent increase compared to the (...)
BRUSSELS , Oct 10, 2018 (Reuters) - The European Union no longer expects a new proposal from Britain for the Ireland-UK border fix after Brexit and negotiators from both sides are seeking to narrow differences together in direct talks, diplomatic (...)
UTTAR PRADESH, India, Oct. 10 (2018) (News Wires) -- Seven persons died and several injured on Wednesday after nine coaches and the engine of an express train heading to New Delhi from Malda town in West Bengal derailed here in Uttar Pradesh, a (...)
By Dr Mohamed Elmasry
By the time people realise that they are dealing with sexual harassment, it is often too late.
Police have been notified, a case reaches the courts, lawyers become involved, hush money may (or may not) have been paid, the media (...)
NAIROBI, Oct 10, 2018( Reuters) - At least 50 people were killed in a bus crash between Nairobi and Kenya's western city of Kisumu on Wednesday, police told the Daily Nation, and President Uhuru Kenyatta said authorities were investigating what he (...)
CAIRO, Oct 10 , 2018 (MENA) - The Cabinet information centre on Wednesday said that media reports on removing some beneficiaries from the lists of ration cards are groundless and inaccurate.
The centre indicated that it contacted the Ministry of (...)
TUNIS, Oct 10 , 2018 (MENA) - Egypt together with Lebanon, Gambia and Swaziland reviewed, during the Africa-Arab forum here, what they achieved so far as regards the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Mohamed Hassan, (...)
CRETE, Greece, Oct 10, 2018 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi had talks in Crete on Wednesday with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ahead of an Egyptian-Greek-Cypriot summit due to be held in Crete later in the day.
At a meeting with Alexis (...)
DHAKA , Oct 10, 2018(News Wires) - A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to life in jail, and 19 more to death, over a plot to assassinate Prime Minister (...)
PARIS, Oct 9, 2018 (News Wires) - 'France Football' has released the initial list of players nominated to win FIFA's prestigious Ballon d'Or award. A total of 30 players will be selected throughout the day (30/30).
Mohamed Salah
The Egyptian enjoyed (...)
PARIS, Oct 9, 2018 (News Wires) - FIFA best player of the year Luka Modric remains on track for a third major award after he was named among 30 nominees for the Ballon d'Or alongside the likes of ex-Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo, (...)
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 9, 2018 (MENA) - Egypt's Nour el-Sherbini and Mohamed el-Shorbagi qualified for the quarter-finals of the 2018 US Open Squash Championship.
World no. 1 Sherbini crashed Alison Waters of England 3-0 (11-6, 11-8 and 11-8) in 31 (...)
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 9, 2018 (Reuters) - Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini wants President Cryil Ramaphosa to sign an agreement promising to exclude territories that the monarch controls from a government land reform drive, the eNCA news channel reported (...)
LONDON, Oct 9, 2018 (News Wires) - Oil prices rose on Tuesday as more evidence emerged that crude exports from Iran, OPEC's third-largest producer, are declining before the imposition of new US sanctions and as a hurricane moved across the Gulf of (...)