Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed on Thursday Egypt's foreign policy during a roundtable discussion organised by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York, the foreign ministry said in a tweet.
Shoukry presented to the US-based (...)
France on Tuesday urged its European Union partners to consider whether to delay negotiations on the bloc's future trade agreement with Australia over what Paris says is a lack of trust sparked by a major defense deal between the U.S., Australia and (...)
A Polish refugee rights group said Friday that 32 people who fled Afghanistan have been trapped for 12 days in an area between Poland and Belarus while caught up in a standoff between the two countries.
The group, Fundacja Ocalenie, called on Polish (...)
A roundup of gold medals from Saturday, August 7, at the Tokyo Games:
ARTISTIC SWIMMING
TEAM FREE
Svetlana Romashina has won the seventh gold medal of her Olympic career by leading the Russian Olympic Committee to gold in the artistic swimming team (...)
The Egyptian Information, Telecommunications, Electronics, and Software Alliance (Eitesal) has organised the first networking meeting for a number of international and local information technology (IT) companies.
Aside from Egyptian companies being (...)
France and Germany usually play each other in the latter stages of major soccer tournaments.
Not this time.
The teams will meet in the group stage of a European Championship or World Cup for the first time on Tuesday when they open their Euro 2020 (...)
The German soccer federation expects the team's last European Championship preparation game to go ahead Monday despite opponent Latvia reporting a coronavirus infection in the team.
The Latvian soccer federation said hours before kickoff on Twitter (...)
The Egyptian Information, Telecommunications, Electronics, and Software Alliance (Eitesal) will organise its first networking meeting for Egyptian companies.
The event will include companies from Latvia and a number of African countries who have (...)
As tensions with Russia simmer, thousands of NATO troops, several warships and dozens of aircraft are taking part in military exercises stretching across the Atlantic, through Europe and into the Black Sea region.
The war games, dubbed Steadfast (...)
US President Joe Biden will join a virtual summit of eastern European NATO states held in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Monday, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said, with a focus on security in the Black Sea region and Ukraine.
The summit of (...)
Seven former Soviet bloc countries have announced they are expelling Russian diplomats and Moscow is retaliating, in a series of disputes that are spiralling by the day. Here is an overview:
CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech authorities said on April 17 they (...)
The United States and 13 other countries expressed concerns on Tuesday that the World Health Organization (WHO) report on the origins of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was delayed and lacked access to complete data, according to a joint (...)
Many countries are resuming use of the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker's vaccine after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the benefits outweighed the risks following investigations into reports of blood (...)
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 (...)
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced, lastThursday, that there is no indication the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is linked to an increased risk of blood clots.
"There is currently no (...)
Health authorities in Denmark and Norway said on Thursday they had temporarily suspended the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine shots after reports of the formation of blood clots in some who have been vaccinated.
The move comes after Austria (...)
The winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film, the Berlin International Film Festival's top award, is Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, by Romanian director Radu Jude.
The controversial films divided critics, due to its explicit hardcore sex scenes. It (...)
The Ambassador of India to Egypt, Rahul Kulshreshth, flagged off Raj Phanden from the Embassy of India in Cairo, on 10 February 2021.
Phanden, who is also known as Cycle Baba and World Bicycle Traveler, is on a mission titled ‘Wheels for Green' to (...)
Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on arrival at a Moscow airport on Sunday after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.
The move, which could see Navalny jailed for 3.5 years (...)
Six European Union governments asked the executive EU Commission in a letter on Friday to pressure Pfizer-BioNTech, "to ensure stability and transparency of timely deliveries" of vaccines agianst COVID-19.
The letter, signed by the health ministers (...)
European Union countries edged closer to agreement on a new climate target at a summit on Thursday, but deferred a deal on the emissions-cutting goal to a meeting in December.
The leaders' discussion in Brussels was their first on upgrading the (...)
The European Union aims to impose economic sanctions on 31 senior Belarus officials including the country's interior minister by mid-September, three EU diplomats said, in response to an Aug. 9 election that the West says was rigged.
Almost a month (...)
Belarusians chanting "Step down!" filled the centre of the capital Minsk on Sunday in the biggest protest so far against what they said was the fraudulent re-election a week ago of longtime president Alexander Lukashenko.
Russia said it would offer (...)
The leaders of Russia and Belarus agreed on Saturday that the problems in Belarus would be resolved soon, the Kremlin said, as tens of thousands took to the streets in Minsk once again to urge President Alexander Lukashenko to quit.
Accused of (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received, on Wednesday, the credentials of six new ambassadors to Egypt, according to a presidency statement.
Al-Sisi received the credentials of the ambassadors of Bahrain, Russia, Tanzania, Senegal, Latvia, and (...)
