United Arab Emirates energy firm Dana Gas said on Wednesday its payments from operations in Egypt and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq jumped by more than 100 per cent in the first nine months of the year.
Collections doubled to $256 million for nine (...)
أعلنت وزارة الرياضة بالمملكة العربية السعودية رفع الطاقة الاستيعابية للحضور الجماهيري بشكل استثنائي إلى 100% في مباراتي المنتخب السعودي أمام اليابان والصين على ملعب الجوهرة.
ومن المقرر أن يحضر المباراة 60 ألف مُشجع، والتي من المقرر أن تقام يوم (...)
Egypt's iron and steel exports in the first eight months of 2021 have jumped 197 percent to $1.097 billion, from $369 million in the same period last year.
In August this year, exports rose to $177 million from $60 million in the same period last (...)
With cascading crises casting a pall over the proceedings at this year's United Nations General Assembly, Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova had this reminder on the first day of debate: 'We cannot save our planet if we leave out the vulnerable _ (...)
Saudi Arabia's monarch expressed hope Wednesday that the kingdom's direct talks with Iran will lead to confidence building as the two bitter regional rivals take small steps toward dialogue following several years of heightened tensions.
King Salman (...)
Using apocalyptic images, three presidents and seven foreign ministers warned Thursday that a warmer world is also a more violent one.
At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the UN's most powerful body to do more to (...)
Egypt welcomes an invitation by DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi to resume the negotiations on the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) sponsored by the African Union, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Wednesday.
In remarks to Sky News, (...)
Next month's parliamentary election is probably the most dramatic in Iraq's recent history. Given the highly partisan atmosphere at a time of "conflict fatigue", a meaningful and effective election is crucial for the nation's stability and its (...)
It looks like the world has not yet had its fill of surprises from the US, which has recently outdone itself on this score. I am not about to rehash Afghanistan or Iraq, how Americans commemorated 11 September 2001, or how the current administration (...)
On 7 September, former US deputy assistant secretary of defence Simone Ledeen wrote an opinion article in the Washington political magazine The Hill arguing that her country should continue to provide security assistance to Egypt.
Some Democratic (...)
The UN has been warning of imminent famine in a number of African and Arab countries, unable until present to put together the resources necessary to prevent widespread hunger. This will be the subject of discussion of the UN General Assembly this (...)
President Joe Biden goes before the United Nations this week eager to make the case for the world to act with haste against the coronavirus, climate change and human rights abuses. His pitch for greater global partnership comes at a moment when (...)
Iranian security forces destroyed four headquarters of the "counter-revolutionary" groups by artillery in northern Iraq, said the acting commander of Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada base in Iran's West Azarbaijan province on Monday.
The recent operation (...)
قال سفير المملكة المتحدة السابق في فرنسا، إن الإعلان عن اتفاقية "اوكوس" للدفاع العسكري بين أستراليا وبريطانيا والولايات المتحدة الأسبوع الماضي خلق انقسامات في حلف شمال الأطلسي "الناتو" لفرنسا.
في مقابلة مع برنامج توداي في "بي بي سي" يوم السبت ، قال (...)
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly asserted Egypt's support to Iraq in its war against terrorism, reiterating Cairo's backing for all efforts exerted by the Iraqi government to achieve development and enhance security and stability.
The premier's (...)
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الحادى عشر من سبتمبر: عشرون عامًا على الواقعة
د.جودة عبد الخالق
أمريكا تعيش حاليا الذكرى العشرين لهجمات الحادى عشر من سبتمبر عام 2001. ففي ذلك اليوم هاجمت ثلاث طائرات برجَىْ مركز التجارة العالمية في نيويورك ومقر وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi affirmed on Wednesday Egypt's keenness to bolster relations with Iraq in all fields.
During a meeting with speaker of the Iraqi House of Representatives Mohamed Al-Halbousi in Cairo, the president affirmed (...)
Hanafi Gibali, the speaker of Egypt's House of Representatives, met on Wednesday with his Iraqi counterpart Mohamed El-Halboussi, who is currently visiting Cairo heading a high-level parliamentary delegation.
After welcoming the delegation, Gibali (...)
The sixth edition of the Builders of Egypt Forum, one of the country's biggest events in the construction industry, has kicked off on Wednesday under the auspices of Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly.
Themed "The Egyptian Experience… and a (...)
I am writing this article on the very day, 20 years ago, when the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington came under terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda terrorists using three civilian airliners.
A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight (...)
Belgrade is gearing up for the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which held its first summit meeting there in 1961. According to Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selaković, the Serbian capital will be hosting 35 heads (...)
Like energy, speed, time and other quantifiers of human ability, power has its limits. Perhaps its main problem is that, at its rise, it boasts absolute qualities, which eventually ends in disaster. Currently, nothing epitomises this more than the (...)
If you want to visualise the financial cost of the war on terror since 11 September 2001, imagine $2 trillion when a dollar is put on top of a dollar reaching far into outer space.
Stephanie Savell
The first $1 trillion would be 67 miles high, (...)
Green recovery, securing development finance, and mobilising international efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while recovering from the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic were the main topics at the two-day (...)
Recent pictures of US troops leaving Afghanistan and desperate attempts to evacuate foreigners and Afghans from the country as they did so have not appeared unfamiliar to many as they revive memories of similar images that swept the world during the (...)
