تمثل النساء العصاميات أقل من 4% من أثرياء العالم، ومن بين 327 امرأة في صفوف 2668 ملياردير حول العالم، حصل معظمهن على ثرواتهن الهائلة عن طريق الإرث، وحققت 101 امرأة فقط، هذه الثروات بأنفسهن، ومن بينهن 11 يتشاركن الثروة مع أزواجهن،.
وحسب مجلة "فوربس" (...)
أعلنت الصين اليوم عن توقيع اتفاق أمني مع جزر سليمان.
وكانت الولايات المتحدة قد أعربت أمس (الاثنين)، عن قلقها من إبرام الصين اتفاقًا أمنيًا محتملًا مع جزر سليمان، الدولة الواقعة في جنوب المحيط الهادي والتي تَوجَّه إليها وفد من كبار الدبلوماسيين (...)
اجتاحت موجات تسونامي اليابان على خلفية انفجار بركان هونجاهاباي في أرخبيل تونجا السبت الماضي ما تسبب في حالة نزوح جماعي ل230 الف شخص من السكان وغرق 20 سفينة.
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واصطدمت الأمواج التي يزيد ارتفاعها عن الأرض حوالي المتر تقريبا بالسواحل (...)
A roundup of gold medals from Saturday, July 31, at the Tokyo Games:
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Mete Gazoz of Turkey won the men's individual archery title at the Tokyo Games.
It was the first gold medal won by a country other than South Korea, which (...)
Dozens of countries face severe oxygen shortages because of surging cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and low vaccination rates, with campaigners warning many could soon reach the crisis point seen in India.
Oxygen is one of the only (...)
قالت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية، إن زلزالا بقوة 6.4 درجة وقع بين مملكة تونغا في وجزر فيجي في المحيط الهادي، يوم الأحد.
وأكدت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية، أن الزلزال وقع على عمق 234 كم، وعلى بعد 200 كم في الجنوب الغربي لمدينة هافيلولوتو، وعلى (...)
Leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organisation on Tuesday backed an idea to create an international treaty that would help the world deal with future health emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic now ravaging the globe.
The idea of (...)
Nearly one in three women worldwide is subjected to physical or sexual violence during her lifetime, pervasive criminal behaviour that has increased during the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
The U.N. agency urged (...)
A powerful undersea earthquake has struck north of New Zealand, prompting a tsunami watch in the region.
The US Geological Agency said the magnitude 7.7 quake hit Wednesday evening. It was centered at a depth of 10 kilometers (six miles) southeast (...)
Fiji, the favourite of Western nations, won the presidency of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday, beating Bahrain and Uzbekistan in a secret ballot that resolved a tense deadlock over the selection.
The vote was called after an impasse that (...)
Russia and China are opposed to a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, diplomats and observers say, creating a deadlock just as the United States may seek to rejoin the forum it quit in 2018. (...)
تعرف علي أفضل أماكن للسفر خلال عام 2021 مع اقتراب عام 2020 من نهايته ، هناك بوادر تبعث على الأمل للسفر وسط الوباء: اختبارات COVID-19 متاحة على نطاق أوسع ، والوجهات تجد طرقًا لإعادة فتح أبوابها بأمان دون الحاجة إلى المسافرين إلى الحجر الصحي لمدة (...)
Having taken part in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games while on the Egyptian taekwondo team, Abeer Essawi officially became an “Olympian”, thus winning a seat on the executive board of the World Olympians Association (WOA), writes Inas Mazhar.
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Having taken part in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games while on the Egyptian taekwondo team, Abeer Essawi officially became an “Olympian”, thus winning a seat on the executive board of the World Olympians Association (WOA), writes Inas Mazhar.
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The U.S. State Department and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention on Thursday lifted global advisories recommending U.S. citizens avoid all international travel because of the coronavirus pandemic, and instead issued a raft of (...)
From online schooling to working from home or video calls with family, the internet has helped billions of people adapt and survive during the coronavirus pandemic.
But as lockdowns ease and social-distancing rules remain, human rights experts say (...)
Thunderstorms lashed parts of Australia's east coast early on Saturday, causing road closures and lash flooding, but the country was still battling nearly 100 bushfires and some of the affected areas remained dry.
Victoria, New South Wales and (...)
Economic shocks stemming from rising sea levels pose a long-term risk to the sovereign credit ratings of dozens of countries which have large areas at risk of submersion, including Vietnam, Egypt, Suriname and the Bahamas, according to (...)
Egypt is expected to submit a report on Egypt's human rights condition during the United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Wednesday in Geneva, said President of the Egyptian Organization of Human Rights, (...)
The United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) 34th session will review the human rights records of three countries — Egypt, Iran and Iraq — that have been the focus of sustained international criticism.
In accordance with UNHRC's Universal (...)
New York – The UN Youth Climate Summit kicked off on Saturday at the United Nations headquarters with the participation of hundreds of youth from all over the world. The summit comes a few hours following mass protests in New York and worldwide (...)
Fresh off a climate strike that took hundreds of thousands of young people out of classrooms and into the streets globally, youth leaders have gathered at the United Nations to demand radical moves to fight climate change.
Swedish 16-year-old (...)
On the island country of Fiji, Egypt was victorious at the 2019 Junior Weightlifting World Championships.
The one-week event, belonging to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and which was held from 1-8 June, saw Egyptian prodigies win (...)
The New Zealand leader's promise of tightened gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings has been widely welcomed by a stunned population.
Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern said her Cabinet will consider the details of the changes on (...)
European Union governments adopted a broadened blacklist of tax havens on Tuesday, the EU commission said in a statement.
Ten jurisdictions were added to the list. It had previously included five.
Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Fiji, Marshall (...)