Egypt will open the 27th Men's Handball World Championship being held from 13-31 January with the participation of 32 teams, the most ever.
The teams will be competing in three venues in Cairo and one in Alexandria: Cairo Stadium Halls, the New (...)
Norway is lifting its ban on flights from Britain, introduced to stop the spread of a more contagious variant of the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Friday, with planes allowed to land from Jan. 2 at 1600 GMT.
Following the lead of other (...)
Calling food the ``pathway to peace,'' the head of the U.N. World Food Program on Thursday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize at the agency's headquarters in Rome, instead of in Oslo, Norway, in a break with pomp-filled tradition amid the COVID-19 (...)
Britain, Norway and Iceland have signed a trade continuity agreement as an interim before the countries complete negotiations over a comprehensive free trade agreement due to come into force in 2021, said the UK in a statement.
The agreement signed (...)
It may be easier to find a needle in a haystack than to find justice anywhere on the globe.
Flaunted throughout history as a virtue and a pillar for a stable and secure society, it has never been given its due. Moreover, it has receded to the realm (...)
Governments across Europe are trying to navigate between avoiding spreading the coronavirus over the Christmas holiday season and allowing people to celebrate with family and friends.
Here are some measures that will be adopted for year-end (...)
The European Union's sale of sugar to Egypt is at a four-year low thanks to Egypt's ban on imports as part of a self-sufficiency drive, Bloomberg reports.
The EU's white sugar exports dropped to a record low last season, as Egypt went from being the (...)
In his weekly meeting with Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhi, Hussein Labib, head of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of Egypt's 2021 Handball Men's World Championship highlighted the fact that Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is (...)
The European Union will allow non-members such as Britain and the United States to take part in future joint EU defence projects, but only on an exceptional basis, three EU diplomats said on Wednesday.
The decision resolves a long saga over whether (...)
After the UAE and Bahrain had signed peace deals with Israel, Arab countries stressed they support peace initiatives based on Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian lands and the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with East (...)
An anti-immigrant Norwegian lawmaker said Wednesday that he has nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Middle East.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian parliament for the populist (...)
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for countries around the world to join forces to tackle the coronavirus on Friday, saying that "vaccine nationalism" would only slow the response to the pandemic.
Tedros said 78 high-income (...)
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said on Wednesday that its men's and women's national soccer teams will receive equal pay and prize money.
"There is no more gender difference, the CBF is treating men and women equally," CBF chief Rogerio (...)
The United States, United Kingdom and Norway in a joint statement said they welcomed the peace agreement between Sudan's civilian-led transitional government and the Sudan Revolutionary Front as a first step in rebuilding stability in the (...)
Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok met Wednesday with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, saying he would discuss topics ranging from trade ties to concerns about human rights violations in China and the contentious national security law for Hong (...)
The Europa League will set up a reunion for Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as he takes on an old friend in the quarterfinals.
When Solskjaer's team faces Copenhagen in Cologne on Monday, the opposing coach will be his old Norway (...)
A Norwegian cruise ship line halted all trips and apologized Monday for procedural errors after an outbreak of coronavirus on one ship infected at least 4 passengers and 36 crew members.
The 40 people on the MS Roald Amundsen who tested positive (...)
Russian warships have begun large-scale drills in the Black Sea, the country's defense ministry said Wednesday on the heels of US-led exercises in the same region.
Accompanied by warplanes and helicopters, over 20 ships from the Russian Black Sea (...)
The European Union is set to exclude Algeria from its safe list of countries from which the bloc allows non-essential travel after a meeting of EU ambassadors on Wednesday.
The list of countries will fall to 11, assuming the provisional decision is (...)
The task of the historian is to tell the story of the past.
He cannot lose sight of acts and facts, bitter as they may seem at present. History is a science to be written scientifically, to be studied scientifically.
Re-writing history fades into (...)
Lessons via radio or TV. Math problems in newspapers. Classes on Zoom or WhatsApp.
The options for African students to keep studying while schools remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic seem varied, but the reality for many is that they (...)
3Sayed Amin Shalabi sets out to review changes in the world order in the last two decades, detailing the relative decline of the US and the rise of such powers as Russia and China. Reviewing not only the present moment but also the last few (...)
قرر علماء ترك جثث حيوانات فقدت حياتها صعقًا بالبرق بدون إزالتها أو دفنها. فما الذي تم التوصل له بعد سنوات من الملاحظة والدراسة للمنطقة التي شهدت حادث الصعق الرهيب؟
بعد حوالي أربع سنوات من الملاحظة والدراسة، ظهرت نتائج دراسة هدفت للتعرف على الآثار (...)
Determined to reopen America's schools, President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to hold back federal money if school districts don't bring their students back in the fall despite coronavirus worries.
He complained that his own public health (...)
Al-Kahila gallery is back with“Summer Colours”, a group show featuring among others Sayed Saad El Din, Ayyad Alnimer, Mohamed Rabie, Mohamed Dmarawey,Britt Botrous Ghali and Dina Targram.
BrittBotrous Ghali is among the important Norwegian artists (...)
