The 2021 Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (CPH:DOX), which will take place from 21 April to 12 May, is set to launch its Big Digital Live Platform later this month, offering an abundance of live events to audiences.
The festival is now (...)
There are few doubts about who carried out the cyber-attack on Iran's Natanz nuclear site last week. Usually, these highly effective operations are carried out by Israel.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicion fell (...)
American rapper and actor Earl Simmons, known by the stage name Dark Man X (DMX), died on Friday, his record label has announced. He was 50.
His death came after the artist suffered a heart attack during what media reports said was a drug (...)
After a deadly year in New York's nursing homes, state lawmakers have passed legislation intended to hold facility operators more accountable for neglect and potentially force them to spend more on patient care.
Rules passed in recent days as part (...)
At least 11 demonstrators were killed in clashes with security forces in a town in northwest Myanmar after truckloads of troops arrived to quell a protest against the ruling military junta, domestic media reported on Thursday.
Protesters armed with (...)
Troops in Myanmar opened fire on pro-democracy protesters on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, the latest victims of a campaign to crush opposition to the ruling military junta, activists and media said.
Senior General Min (...)
An Iranian cargo ship believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen has been attacked, Iranian state television acknowledged Wednesday.
The state TV acknowledgment, citing foreign (...)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday brought an end to a legal fight over former President Donald Trump's effort to block critics from following his now-frozen Twitter account, deciding the dispute was moot and throwing out a lower court's decision that (...)
More than a dozen San Jose, California, police officers walked through the white arches of the Grand Century Mall in "Little Saigon" to reassure a Vietnamese-American community fearful over the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the United (...)
"What happened to Menna's face? Menna's face has been intentionally damaged throughout the tomb. The ancient Egyptians believed the soul of a person inhabited a painting of them and that destroying the face would 'deactivate' the image. Why did (...)
Now is the time for greater international momentum to fight corruption, as the coronavirus pandemic has given it more opportunities to grow, said Ghada Waly, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Sunday.
The (...)
More than 400 vessels had either to change routes or lie in wait when the container ship Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal for six days last week. The Panamanian vessel, one of the world's largest, was finally freed on Monday afternoon following (...)
The western Sudanese region of Darfur is perhaps best known today among international audiences for the tragic conflict that tore the region apart after 2003, only finding some lasting resolution after the revolution in Sudan that removed former (...)
This week Al-Ahram bid farewell to former editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram Weekly Assem El-Kersh, who lost the battle against the coronavirus at the age of 66.
A career journalist with a degree from the Cairo University Faculty of Mass Communications, (...)
Egypt's Orascom Financial Holding (OFH) has announced the launch of a new financial technology (fintech) company, in partnership with EXCEL, focused on digital payments.
This partnership marks an important step towards the implementation of the (...)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Qatar on Monday to eliminate male guardianship rules that prevent women making independent decisions on basic rights such as marriage, travel and accessing reproductive health care.
New York-based HRW said that after (...)
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has announced the appointment of Brenda Boultwood as Director of the Office of Risk Management (ORM).
Boultwood will succeed Vivek Arora, who has moved to the African (...)
More than 500 rape cases have been reported to five clinics in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the United Nations said on Thursday, warning that due to stigma and a lack of health services the actual numbers were likely to be much higher.
"Women say they (...)
Children accounted for a quarter of civilian casualties over the last three years in Yemen's grinding war between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government, a child relief agency said Tuesday.
More than 2,300 children (...)
The European Union and the United States on Monday imposed sanctions on individuals and groups linked to last month's military coup in Myanmar as the repression of pro-democracy protesters by security forces reached what Germany's foreign minister (...)
The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus
Multiple variants can "escape" vaccines
Antibodies induced by the (...)
Today's world has been humbled by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and in less than a year, the virus has transformed the way people live, work, and interact.
Governments around the world are being put to test in mitigating the impact of (...)
Egypt is set to review its experience of women's empowerment as it attends the 65th session of the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women.
The UN headquarters in New York launched the commission's session which saw active Egyptian (...)
هل تعانى من أعراض إدمان السيلفى؟ إنها ليست مزحة، هو حالة حقيقية وقد تكون مصابًا به. وفقًا لصحيفة New York Post، التقاط صور السيلفى قد يتحول من مجرد سلوك عادى إلى سلوك إدمانى له تأثيرات سيئة للغاية على العقل والصحة النفسية، وربما تصل عواقبه إلى (...)
Egypt's permanent representative to UN Mohamed Idris said Wednesday that the Egyptian mission in New York has been leading large-scale efforts over the past period to draft a transnational statement outlining a clear international vision for water (...)
