World leaders on Tuesday called for global awareness, broad consensus and concrete actions to preserve biodiversity at a United Nations conference held in China.
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological (...)
Under the Patronage of the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ministry's sports tourism division in partnership with the Egyptian National Olympic Committee (ENOC) and Canada's Friendship League, will host its first ever International Hockey (...)
Racism, climate change and worsening divisions among nations and cultures topped the agenda Wednesday as leaders from China to Costa Rica, from Finland to Turkey to the United Nations itself outlined reasons why the world isn't working as it should (...)
Two games into World Cup qualifying, a rebuilt U.S. soccer team is in trouble.
Three starters are hurt. Key midfielder Weston McKennie didn't dress because he violated team COVID protocols.
Unable to break down a Canadian team that sat back with (...)
Winning home games is the key to World Cup qualifying, and the Americans go into Sunday night's match against visiting Canada uncertain whether star attacker Christian Pulisic will be available and knowing No. 1 goalkeeper Zack Steffen remains (...)
Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has participated via video conference in a high-level event in preparation for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15).
The meeting is (...)
Over the past 30 years, the number of adults (aged 30-79 years) living with hypertension worldwide has doubled to 626 million women and 652 million men in 2019, from an estimated 331 million women and 317 million men in 1990, with most of this (...)
Images of thousands of Afghans desperately trying to flee their country following a hasty U.S. withdrawal have provoked an international outcry.
As of Aug. 22, 2021, some 6,000 U.S. troops were working to evacuate U.S. military, American citizens (...)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says 13 countries have thus far agreed to at least temporarily host at-risk Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan and a dozen more have agreed to serve as transit points for evacuees, including Americans and (...)
The island kingdom of Bahrain has said it is ``allowing flights to make use of Bahrain's transit facilities'' amid the evacuations of Afghanistan.
The kingdom made the announcement in a statement released early Saturday.
Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf (...)
For the past two days, United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) President-Designate Alok Sharma has met with climate and environment ministers and representatives from over 50 countries, including Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine (...)
The global rollout of vaccines against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the increased adoption of digital solutions for safe travel will ease travel restrictions, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
The (...)
Last week the UK added Egypt, and six other countries, to its red list. Travellers from red list countries to the UK are required to quarantine for 11 days at a hotel approved by the government and have two negative PCR tests before being allowed to (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Several members of the Egyptian parliament have rejected the statement issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) which called on Cairo to lift curbs on freedoms of expression and assembly.
"We urge Egypt to guarantee space for civil (...)
Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre
1 Al-Imam St, behind Amr bin Al-Aas Mosque, Al-Fustat, Old Cairo, Tel 02 2364 3103
A permanent exhibition of the centre's ceramic, brass, jewellery and khayameya products.
Cordoba
3A, Degla St, off (...)
Hurricane Iota rapidly strengthened Monday into a Category 5 storm that is likely to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by a powerful Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago.
Iota has intensified over the (...)
The death toll from torrential downpours unleashed by storm Eta leapt on Friday as Guatemalan soldiers reached a mountain village where around 100 people were killed by a landslide, adding to dozens of other dead in Central America and Mexico.
Many (...)
The remnants of Hurricane Eta unleashed torrential rains and catastrophic flooding on Central America, with fatalities sharply up on Thursday mostly because of mudslides as streets turned into rivers and bridges came tumbling down.
More than 70 (...)
The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the global economy as no crisis has ever done before, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently releasing a report assessing the current and future impact of it on the external sector of economies or how (...)
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 (...)
Egypt could lose out on tourism revenues worth more than 2 percent of its GDP this year due to global travel restrictions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its 2020 External Sector Report.
The forecast is based on a scenario laid out in (...)
Egypt has on Friday signed up the World Health Organisation's (WHO) COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), a global initiative aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other health technologies to fight coronavirus accessible to all.
The (...)
Egypt has issued a joint statement with 16 countries demanding the elimination of nuclear weapons, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
The joint statement was also released to mark the (...)
