Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87.
King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in (...)
Were Voltaire to visit the US these days, he would be appalled at the total desecration of his noble ideas and the impertinent violation of his lofty principle.
He would not allow such abuse of power or the deprivation of human rights.
Was this not (...)
The UN Support Mission for Libya (UNSMIL) had not yet announced how participants in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) had voted on Monday evening on the selection mechanism for the new Libyan executive authority at the time Al-Ahram Weekly (...)
An independent panel said on Monday that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial COVID-19 outbreak, and criticised the World Health Organization (WHO) for not declaring an (...)
Egypt has allocated between $1.5 billion and $1.6 billion to purchase vaccines against COVID-19, Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait said on Sunday.
Maait told CNBC Arabia that Egypt has agreed with the Geneva-based GAVI vaccine alliance to secure 20 (...)
A Libyan political dialogue arranged by the United Nations has made progress towards agreeing a new transitional government to oversee the run-up to elections in December, the U.N. said on Saturday.
Participants at talks in Geneva agreed on a (...)
Fiji, the favourite of Western nations, won the presidency of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday, beating Bahrain and Uzbekistan in a secret ballot that resolved a tense deadlock over the selection.
The vote was called after an impasse that (...)
Egypt's health minister on Monday said the country's COVID-19 vaccination programme will start in the beginning of February.
"By the first of the upcoming month, the vaccination against the coronavirus will begin, the priority will be for medical (...)
Israel has denied Palestinians access to the vaccine after it rebuffed a World Health Organisation (WHO) vaccine request last week for the Palestinian health workforce as an immediate priority target group, citing shortages at home. Palestinians (...)
In a new twist to the crisis in Yemen, Washington has decided to designate the Yemeni Ansarallah Movement, also known as the Houthis, as a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO). In a statement released on 10 January, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (...)
Officials from Libya's rival governments met Tuesday in the strategic eastern oil town of Brega for talks aimed at unifying the national budget, officials said, another step forward in efforts to end the yearslong conflict in the oil-rich (...)
Russia and China are opposed to a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, diplomats and observers say, creating a deadlock just as the United States may seek to rejoin the forum it quit in 2018. (...)
The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that he is “disappointed” Chinese officials haven't finalized the permissions to allow a team of experts into China to examine the origins of COVID-19.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom (...)
About 2.2 million people have been displaced within Ethiopia's Tigray region since fighting erupted there in November with about half fleeing after their homes were burned down, a local government official said.
Gebremeskel Kassa, a senior (...)
On 27 December a delegation of the Egyptian National Committee on Libya arrived in Tripoli. Delegation members met with officials from the Government of National Accord (GNA) and representatives of key players in western Libyan.
The goal was to (...)
At the beginning of December, Singapore became the first country in the world to approve the sale of cultured chicken or what some call lab-grown or cell-based meat. These are meats grown in laboratories using animal cells. The meats taste identical (...)
What began as protests demanding reform and the lifting of the heavy hand of the security agencies in Syria in 2011 has mushroomed over the past decade into a long and bitter conflict with the involvement of intertwining domestic, regional and (...)
This year was another year of major political, military, and economic ups and downs for Libya, starting with the onset of an eight-month blockade of oil facilities and the initiation of the Berlin Process for a comprehensive solution to the crisis (...)
Egypt is in talks with Sinovac Biotech to manufacture the Chinese company's coronavirus vaccine, health minister Hala Zayed told Egypt's DMC satellite channel on Friday.
Zayed said that Egypt wants to meet the demand of Egyptians and other African (...)
The World Health Organization said on Friday nearly 1 billion doses of leading vaccine candidates had been secured as part of the COVAX programme to provide vaccines for low- and middle-income countries.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO (...)
Ethiopia's government said on Friday it was returning Eritrean refugees to camps in the northern Tigray region, a move that the United Nations refugee agency said was "absolutely unacceptable".
The refugees are being taken from the capital Addis (...)
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's pledges to halt the separation of migrant families, address "systemic racism" and climate change are promising and could reverse setbacks during the Trump administration, the U.N. human rights chief said on (...)
The global forced displacement has surpassed 80 million by mid-2020, although the full picture for the year is yet to be established, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in a report released Wednesday in Geneva.
According to the latest Mid-Year Trends (...)
Ethiopia said it had captured or killed most commanders of a rebellious northern force, while Tigray's fugitive local leader countered on Friday that civilians were protesting against looting by occupying soldiers.
Neither side gave proof for their (...)
The United Nations refugee agency appealed on Tuesday to Ethiopian authorities for access to 96,000 Eritrean refugees in the northern Tigray region, where it said food is believed to have run out during the month-long conflict.
Babar Baloch, (...)
