Russia on Tuesday became the first country to officially register a coronavirus vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. President Vladimir Putin said that one of his daughters has already been inoculated.
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Hospitals and schools, then shattered and bent water pipes, then the crater that once was Lebanon's port.
The rebuilding needs of Lebanon are immense, but so is the question of how to ensure the millions of dollars promised in international aid is (...)
Beijing's top representative office in Hong Kong said on Saturday that sanctions imposed by Washington on senior Hong Kong and Chinese officials were "clowning actions" that would not frighten or intimidate Chinese people.
The Hong Kong government (...)
Egypt's Ministry of International Cooperation and the National Council for Women along with the World Economic Forum hosted on Saturday the first multi-stakeholder platform on "Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator."
The platform, the first in Africa (...)
Tarek Momen, Egypt's star squash player who is ranked fourth in the world, has had an impressive recent run. Momen, 32, defeated New Zealand's Paul Coll in Doha in November last year in straight games. He also played a key part in the Egyptian men's (...)
Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanon's former Sunni leader Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut, triggering regional upheaval, a U.N.-backed court trying four suspects from Shia Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country (...)
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You are either a boy or a girl, a him or a her, a he or a she. It is that simple, we think, but in fact, it is not.
The United Nations informs us that (...)
Microsoft Corp's potential acquisition of short-video app TikTok carries myriad risks, thrusting it into the politically fraught social media business and Sino-U.S. conflict amid increased scrutiny of big-tech companies.
But the deal could help (...)
The European Union is set to exclude Algeria from its safe list of countries from which the bloc allows non-essential travel after a meeting of EU ambassadors on Wednesday.
The list of countries will fall to 11, assuming the provisional decision is (...)
سجلت كندا خلال الفترة الماضية ارتفاعًا ملحوظًا في إصابات فيروس كورونا بين الشباب، على عكس ما كانت تسجل قبل ذلك، وأطلقت السلطات الصحية تحذيرًا من أن الشباب غير محصنين ضد الوباء.
وبحسب وكالة الصحافة الفرنسية، فإنه في الأسبوع الذي انتهى في 22 يوليو (...)
The new coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 16 million people is easily the worst global health emergency the World Health Organization (WHO) has faced, its director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.
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Russia has no plan to rejoin the Group of Seven given its satisfaction with the Group of 20, the Kremlin said Monday.
"The G20 probably better meets modern economic realities from the point of view of economic development centers in the world," (...)
Global coronavirus infections surged past 15 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic gathering pace even as countries remain divided in their response to the crisis. In the United States, which has the highest number of (...)
Egypt's exports of building materials, refractory and metallurgy industries post $ 3.025 billion during the first quarter of 2020, recording an increase of 24 percent, compared with $2.437 billion a year earlier according to Export Council for (...)
A new snapshot of the frantic global response to the coronavirus pandemic shows some of the world's largest government donors of humanitarian aid are buckling under the strain: Funding commitments, for the virus and otherwise, have dropped by a (...)
Egypt has started to catch its breath after the slump that befell its tourism sector during the restrictions put in place to halt the spread of the coronavirus, with tourist flights returning to the Red Sea resorts of Sharm El-Sheikh and Hurghada (...)
A pioneering academic at Lebanon's most distinguished university, Charlotte Karam has enjoyed professional success that has made her decision to leave the country all the more heart-wrenching.
An associate professor at the American University of (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday said he welcomed Iran's decision to hand over the black boxes from the crash of a Ukrainian airliner to France, saying those responsible would be held accountable.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards shot (...)
The White House national security adviser says the U.S. is ``very sympathetic'' to France in its dispute with Turkey over a naval standoff in the Mediterranean Sea between the two NATO allies.
The festering row has exposed NATO's struggle to keep (...)
Britain, the United States and Canada accused Russian hackers on Thursday of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a coronavirus vaccine, warning scientists and pharmaceutical companies to be alert for suspicious (...)
The U.S. and Canada are poised to extend their agreement to keep their shared border closed to non-essential travel to Aug. 21, but a final confirmation has not been given, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
The agreement would likely (...)
Two CA$14m grant agreements, covering health, socio-economic support and empowerment of women, have been signed between Egypt and Canada, according to Egypt's Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat.
The grants were signed by Minister (...)
Tropical depression Fay moved north over New York early Saturday and was expected to continue to weaken through the weekend, forecasters said.
The depression had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55kph), the National Hurricane Center in Miami said (...)
HSBC Bank Egypt has appointed Todd Wilcox as its Deputy Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), succeeding Jacques-Emmanuel Blanchet.
Wilcox's appointment was made with effect from 1 July, following the receipt of the required regulatory (...)
Relations between the US and China have crashed of late, turning from a trade fight and then a war of words over the origins of the Covid-19 to a more important investigation of individual companies and the global economy. Relations between the two (...)
