The Champions League talking points ahead of the second-leg matches in the quarterfinals:
Tuesday:
Paris Saint-Germain vs. Bayern Munich (3-2)
Bayern heads to Paris as a team of walking wounded, while PSG is likely to be without its best defender (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi sent a clear warning to Ethiopia on 30 March, stating that Egypt's right to the Nile water will not be compromised and that its share in its lifeline is a "red line". He added that tensions regarding this topic will (...)
Egypt asserted, on Saturday, that it will take measures against a German company for its discrimination against an Egyptian woman for wearing an Islamic headscarf (hijab).
Nouran Hassanein, who currently resides in Germany, had applied for a job at (...)
Marcus Ingvartsen scored late for Union Berlin to grab a 1-1 draw and cut Bayern Munich's Bundesliga lead on Saturday ahead of Bayern's decisive Champions League game in Paris on Tuesday.
Union's visit came at the wrong time for the European (...)
All films screened in commercial cinemas are changed on Wednesday. Generally, shows begin at 10:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 6:30pm, 9:30pm and sometimes midnight, especially on week-ends. Special film seasons and screenings are held in cultural centres (...)
The Libyan Presidency Council announced, on Monday 5 April, the creation of a national reconciliation commission. A key step in the roadmap adopted by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) in mid-November last year, it seeks to pave the way to (...)
The American University in Cairo (AUC) this week organised "MySafeUni Day", part of the university's SpeakUp Dialogue Series it launched in November and which is designed to raise awareness about sexual harassment and to support national and global (...)
Borussia Dortmund's teenage striker Youssoufa Moukoko has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a ligament injury, the club said on Monday.
Moukoko is the youngest player to score in the Bundesliga after netting in December (...)
It was shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday, March 22 when Angela Merkel called a break after hours of deadlocked discussion with her deputy and Germany's 16 state premiers on how to halt a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
After winning international (...)
Germany's capital Berlin is set to impose a nighttime ban on gatherings from Friday and a reduction in children at nursery to from next week try to stop a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, media reported on Thursday.
As the weather has turned (...)
Germany will next week present a multi-billion-dollar proposal to Lebanese authorities to rebuild the Port of Beirut as part of efforts to entice the country's politicians to form a government capable of warding off financial collapse, two sources (...)
All films screened in commercial cinemas are changed on Wednesday. Generally, shows begin at 10:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 6:30pm, 9:30pm and sometimes midnight, especially on week-ends. Special film seasons and screenings are held in cultural centres (...)
"What happened to Menna's face? Menna's face has been intentionally damaged throughout the tomb. The ancient Egyptians believed the soul of a person inhabited a painting of them and that destroying the face would 'deactivate' the image. Why did (...)
This week Al-Ahram bid farewell to former editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram Weekly Assem El-Kersh, who lost the battle against the coronavirus at the age of 66.
A career journalist with a degree from the Cairo University Faculty of Mass Communications, (...)
The German government is buying a minority stake in defence supplier Hensoldt, a company that derives from European aircraft manufacturer Airbus' former defence and security electronics division, for security reasons.
The state-owned KfW development (...)
German health officials warned Friday that the country's latest eruption of coronavirus cases has the potential to be worse than the previous two last year, and they urged people to stay at home during the upcoming Easter break to help slow the (...)
Bayer Leverkusen parted ways with coach Peter Bosz on Tuesday after a poor run of results left them sixth in the Bundesliga.
His departure comes after Sunday's 3-0 defeat at Hertha Berlin, Leverkusen's fourth loss in their last five games in all (...)
German hotel owners are fuming over an extension to measures that bar citizens from going on vacation in their own country but allow them to travel abroad, as the industry struggles to survive the coronavirus lockdown.
Berlin on Tuesday extended a (...)
The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) is set to celebrate Sudanese cinema at its upcoming 10th edition, which starts later on this month, following Sudan's nomination as the festival's guest of honour.
The nomination reflects the success and (...)
European leaders criticised what they called Turkey's baffling and concerning decision to pull out of an international accord designed to protect women from violence, and urged President Tayyip Erdogan to reconsider.
Erdogan's government on Saturday (...)
India appointed Ajit Gupte as its new Ambassador to Egypt, on 10 March, in succession to Ambassador Rahul Kulshreshth who completed his tour of duty on 28February 2021.
Gupte joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1991. He has studied Mandarin, and (...)
The recent developments since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020 are strong reminder of the phrase attributed to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus that "change is the only constant in life".
What has been more (...)
Sudan will be the guest of honour of the 10th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF), said organisers of the festival, scheduled for 26-31 March.
Although the preliminary choice of Sudan as guest of honour was announced in December, the (...)
Publicly, the European Union has dismissed Russia's global coronavirus vaccine supply campaign as a propaganda stunt by an undesirable regime.
Behind the scenes, the bloc is turning to Moscow's Sputnik V shot as it tries to get its stuttering (...)
