More than 1.19 million people have been reported infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 64,421 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 200 countries and territories since the first cases (...)
شهدت الطرق الحدودية بين اليونان وبلغاريا تكدس مئات الشاحنات على الطرق في طابور طويل يضم مئات الشاحنات بسبب الاجراءات التي تتخذها سلطات البلدين لمنع نقل عدوى فيروس كورونا، وعرضت قناة روسيا اليوم، لقطات علوية لمشهد طابور الشاحنات وهي تعد بالمئات (...)
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday urged Greeks to continue to comply with lockdown measures and stay home to stem the spread of the coronavirus and avoid the tragedy seen in other countries.
"April will be the most critical month, (...)
The Olympic flame will be on display until the end of April in Japan's northeastern prefecture of Fukushima.
Tokyo Olympic and prefecture officials held an official “handover ceremony”on Wednesday at the J-Village National Training Center in (...)
More than 799,800 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 38,854 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 200 countries and territories since the first cases were identified (...)
European shares dropped on Thursday after gaining for two straight sessions, as coronavirus spread rapidly across the globe and fears of a deep global recession overshadowed optimism from a historic $2 trillion U.S. fiscal stimulus deal.
The (...)
As a growing number of governments enforced lockdowns curb the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), halting travel, and limiting access to museums and archaeological sites around the world.
That leaves self-quarantined people with a lot of free time (...)
Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman expects international matches scheduled for late May and early June to be scrapped due to the coronavirus outbreak and sees September as a more likely window for fixtures to resume.
With much of Europe on lockdown to (...)
As many people around the world self-quarantine to protect themselves against what has now labelled as a pandemic, others in less fortunate circumstances seem forgotten.
People under siege in Gaza, in other conflict-torn countries, refugees in (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri this week completed a six-state African tour designed to lobby support for Egypt's proposals for a way out of the impasse over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Shoukri's tour (...)
The Middle East is on lockdown. From Morocco to the Gulf, passing by Egypt, most countries are either in partial or complete lockdown. In Jordan, the government ordered a night-to-dawn curfew while most Arab countries have closed down schools, (...)
After almost every other sports championship ground to a halt because of the coronavirus, the world's most prestigious sporting event has finally fallen in line.
On Tuesday, it was confirmed that the 2020 Tokyo Games is to be postponed for a year, (...)
The Tokyo Olympics are going to happen - but almost surely in 2021 rather than in four months as planned.
This became clear after the IOC on Sunday announced it was considering a postponement and would make a final decision within four weeks. Major (...)
In light of the current coronavirus disease or COVID-19 that is unfolding across the world, the film industry has seen many events postponed and cancelled, France's Cannes Film Festival and the US daytime Emmy TV awards are the latest events being (...)
Young German adults hold "corona parties" and cough toward older people. A Spanish man leashes a goat to go for a walk to skirt confinement orders. From France to Florida to Australia, kitesurfers, college students and others crowd the (...)
An Olympic cauldron was ignited in Japan on Friday with a flame carried from Greece, with officials again pledging the Tokyo 2020 Games will proceed despite mounting pressure to halt the world's biggest sporting event due to the coronavirus (...)
More than 245,000 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 10,028 have died, with cases and deaths outside China far exceeding
those in the country where the outbreak began, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections (...)
A plane sporting Tokyo 2020 livery departed Haneda International Airport on Wednesday bound for Athens to collect the Olympic flame, but there was no delegation from organizers onboard due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
Tokyo 2020 said (...)
Tokyo Olympic organizers are pushing ahead with the Japanese leg of the torch relay despite the threat of the spreading coronavirus.
The Olympic flame, which is due to arrive on Friday from Greece, is scheduled to navigate the country for four (...)
Last week, the Olympic flame of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games was lit in Ancient Olympia, Greece, with no crowds attending due to the coronavirus.
In only 134 days, the Games of the 32th Olympics will begin. As a symbol of peace and hope the Olympic (...)
Over the last two-and-a-half weeks since 29 February when the crisis first unfolded, Greece has faced the unprecedented state-sponsored mass movement of illegal migrants, an organised massive violation of its national borders and state sovereignty. (...)
Expectations this year indicate that in the future the security of maritime routes in the Middle East – the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, particularly its eastern side, and the Arabian Gulf – will see more conflicts.
Developments in the areas (...)
Beyti Egypt aims to take its exports in 2020 to $25m, compared to about $21m in 2019, while it recorded EGP 3.5bn in total sales in 2019, compared to EGP 2.9bn in 2018.
Zakaria Yassin, manager of export at Beyti, said that the company exports its (...)
Almost 170,000 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and 6,509 have died, with cases and deaths outside China overtaking those in the country where the outbreak began, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections outside China (...)
In the past few hours Twitter was abuzz with a list of threads published by Canadian MD Isaac Bogoch claiming the number of Egyptians carrying COVID-19 are 19,000 cases on average, based on a mathematical model and an assumption of the number of (...)
