Trump's threat of auto tariffs has finally spurred EU leaders into action on a new trade deal with Washington. As the US president seeks reelection next year, will Europe hold more clout in upcoming negotiations?Nine months after European Commission (...)
The Egyptian-Chinese University (ECU) is expected to open new branches outside Cairo, Ashraf Al-Shehhi, president of the ECU, told Daily News Egypt on the sidelines of the International Conference of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Functional (...)
Challenges facing the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) extend beyond pressures against its budget.
Russia's military expansion outside its borders and into regions such as Crimea, Ukraine and Syria is causing the ire of NATO member (...)
Oil prices rose to $70.59 per barrel in Sunday trading, the highest level since November 2018, pushed by the current production cuts applied by members and non-members of OPEC, in addition to the US sanctions imposed on Iran and Venezuela, as well (...)
US authorities gathered information about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd through secret surveillance they plan to use in their case charging the Chinese telecom company with violating sanctions against Iran, prosecutors said Thursday.
Assistant U.S. (...)
Challenges facing the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) extend beyond pressures against its budget. Russia's military expansion outside its borders and into regions such as Crimea, Ukraine and Syria is causing the ire of NATO member states. (...)
A Chinese woman who passed security checkpoints at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida carrying a thumb drive coded with "malicious" software was arrested on Saturday for entering a restricted property and making false statements (...)
Firefighters on Tuesday contained a blaze high in the rugged forested mountains of western China that claimed the lives of 30 colleagues, in one of the worst disasters for the emergency services in recent years.
Open flames had been extinguished and (...)
Global oil prices have increased to $67.60 per barrel at the end of last week's trading, compared to $66.40 at the start of trading, supported by OPEC, announcing extending oil production cuts for June and cancelling the meeting which was planned to (...)
Activist released on parole
AFTER spending five years in Tora prison for taking part in an unlicensed protest, blogger and human rights activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, 37, was released on Friday. The news broke on Twitter when his sister Mona Seif (...)
Those who criticise China over human rights in Tibet have been "bewitched" by the Dalai Lama, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday, days before the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan spiritual leader's flight into exile in India.
China says it (...)
Vietnam has lodged an official protest with China following the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat which was being chased by a Chinese maritime surveillance vessel in the disputed South China Sea, Vietnam said late on Thursday.
Vietnam and China (...)
The United States is pressing India to stop buying Venezuelan oil that is a major source of revenue for President Nicolas Maduro's government, Washington's top envoy for Venezuela said, as the Trump administration this week threatened more U.S. (...)
Belgium midfielder Marouane Fellaini announced his retirement from international soccer on Friday, ending a 12-year career with the national team.
The 31-year-old scored 18 goals in 87 appearances for Belgium and represented them at two World Cups, (...)
New Delhi was the world's most polluted capital city in 2018, two groups monitoring air pollution said on Tuesday in a study of the amount of fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 in 61 capital cities around the world.
The Indian capital, home to (...)
Malaysia will consider resuming the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 if companies interested in the hunt come forward with viable proposals or credible leads, its transport minister said on Sunday.
Flight MH370, carrying 239 people, (...)
After the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi forces on 25 February 1991, former and late US president George H W Bush co-authored a book with his national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, titled A World Transformed.
The theme of the book was that a (...)
Even as a child I often dreamed of travelling in a caravan by camelback on the legendary Silk Road, the greatest trade route in history which joined China to Europe across the Asian continent.
Part of my childhood dream came true in October and (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured the Philippines on Friday it would come to its defence if it came under attack in the South China Sea, reaffirming a defence code that Manila's security chiefs have sought to revise.
Speaking during a (...)
The Egyptian satellite, Egyptsat-A, launched on Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, has settled into its designated orbit, Egypt and Russia announced soon after the launch.
“The satellite has reached its designated orbit, everything (...)
Even as a child I often dreamed of travelling in a caravan by camelback on the legendary Silk Road, the greatest trade route in history which joined China to Europe across the Asian continent.
Part of my childhood dream came true in October and (...)
Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) spent last week touring Asia's three nuclear powers amid a lavish reception by Asian leaders and despite visible tensions amongst them. Bin Salman's tour was meant to convey that he was still an active (...)
The Egyptian satellite, Egyptsat-A, launched on Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, has settled into its designated orbit, Egypt and Russia announced soon after the launch.
“The satellite has reached its designated orbit, everything (...)
The security of next-generation 5G networks has dominated this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with conflicting views on the risks of moving to the new technology being debated on stage and in backroom meetings.
5G promises super-fast (...)
