Germany and France said they and other European Union countries have nominated Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia for a second term as director-general of the World Health Organization. This marks the first time that a candidate for the top job (...)
In the latest flurry of meetings in the evolving relationship between Egypt and Libya talks have covered a wide-range of political, security and economic issues.
On 14 September, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met with Speaker of the Libyan House of (...)
In his last briefing to the UN Security Council, UN Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen suggested taking advantage of the relative cessation of hostilities in the country to bring together the main regional and international stakeholders for (...)
EU Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis on Thursday pleaded for urgent reform of the World Trade Organization, saying it was high time for change at the global trade body.
Dombrovskis said he was ready to consider a major shake-up of the (...)
The United Nations on Monday drummed up millions of dollars in emergency funds from donor countries for beleaguered Afghans who could soon face widespread hunger, even as Western governments and the U.N. human rights chief voiced concerns about the (...)
Ahmed Ehab Gamal El-Din, Egypt's permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said the new National Strategy for Human Rights highlights the right of citizens to participation in the political life and formation of political (...)
A parliamentary delegation led by Parliament Speaker Hanafi Gibali participated in two conferences held in Vienna, the capital of Austria, this week. The conferences were the World Conference of Speakers of Parliament followed by the first global (...)
As diplomatic efforts continue to salvage the Libyan elections scheduled for December, the authorities in Tripoli this week announced the release of Saadi Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Ahmed Ramadan, former Libyan dictator's (...)
An Egyptian parliamentary delegation led by Speaker of the House of Representatives Hanafi Gibali left for Austria Saturday, where they will attend the fifth conference for the world's parliamentary speakers and the first international parliamentary (...)
It was Nov. 13 , 2001. The sun had just begun to rise over the Hindu Kush Mountains when the Taliban disappeared from Kabul, the battered capital of Afghanistan.
The bodies of foreign Arabs who had stayed behind were mutilated and bloodied. They had (...)
On 9 August, the first batch of the US Johnson & Johnson's Janssen (JNJ.N) Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Cairo. The 261,600 doses received will be distributed between 126 vaccination centres, with priority given to people travelling abroad.
Khaled (...)
Nuclear strategic stability talks between Russia and the United States will take place in a week, the RIA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing sources in a Russian delegation at talks in Tajikistan.
Russia wants to discuss all types of weapons, (...)
After considerable Western and international pressure, numerous warnings from humanitarian agencies, and a Russian-US summit meeting, Russia refrained from using its veto to prevent the passage of a UN Security Council Resolution to extend the use (...)
Russia has strongly warned the United States against deploying its troops in the former Soviet Central Asian nations following their withdrawal from Afghanistan, a senior diplomat said in remarks published on Tuesday.
Russia's Deputy Foreign (...)
The U.N. Security Council on Friday extended a cross-border aid operation into Syria from Turkey after Russia agreed to a compromise in last-minute talks with the United States, ensuring the delivery of humanitarian help to millions of Syrians for (...)
Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank amount to a war crime, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Friday, calling on countries to inflict a cost on Israel for its "illegal occupation".
Michael Lynk, U.N. special (...)
A US diplomat focusing on disarmament said Thursday that China is ``looking at`` developing naval and aerial autonomous nuclear weapons systems, warning any such development could disrupt strategic stability.
Ambassador Robert Wood, the US envoy to (...)
The UN-sponsored Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) has failed to reach an agreement on the constitutional basis for holding legislative and presidential elections in Libya, despite the five-day extension of the deadline.
The UN Support Mission (...)
The Arab League (AL) on Monday called on the Libyan political parties to exert more efforts to overcome obstacles and hold elections on schedule in December this year, said a statement by the AL.
"The AL expressed regret over the failure of the (...)
The head of Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdul Hamid Dbeiba, has announced that the country's general elections will be held on time, in December 2021.
Dbeiba's remarks came on Sunday, during the opening ceremony of the media centre (...)
U.N.-sponsored talks aimed at paving the way for elections in Libya in late December failed to find common ground, the deputy of the United Nations mission in Libya said on Friday night after weeklong talks near Geneva.
Raisedon Zenenga, assistant (...)
What we Chinese Communists are doing is to better the lives of the Chinese people, rejuvenate the Chinese nation, and promote peace and development for humanity."
Addressing over 600 representatives of political parties from over 120 countries at a (...)
"What we Chinese Communists are doing is to better the lives of the Chinese people, rejuvenate the Chinese nation, and promote peace and development for humanity."
Addressing over 600 representatives of political parties from over 120 countries at a (...)
On Tuesday morning this week, the Israeli authorities began the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Bustan neighbourhood of the Salwan district of Occupied East Jerusalem.
The 21-day grace period that the Israeli-run Jerusalem municipality had (...)
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) reconvened at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Monday to discuss "consensus formulas". These target pending differences on the Constitutional Basis for the general elections scheduled to be held on 24 (...)
