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 (...)
Egypt is likely to face a drop in birth rate in the period following the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to Dr Tarek Tawfik, Deputy Minister of Health for Population Affairs.
The anticipated drop in births is set to come off the (...)
Energean announced that it has received a discount for its acquisition of the Edison E&P, paying only $284m, but after working capital, Energean expects to pay just $178m for the acquisition down from the initial $750m value of the deal, the company (...)
The European Union is set to make public Tuesday a list of countries whose citizens will be allowed to enter 31 European countries, but most Americans are likely to be refused entry for at least another two weeks due to soaring coronavirus (...)
Denmark will allow citizens from European countries with a low number of COVID-19 infections to enter the country from June 27, the Danish foreign ministry said on Thursday.
European Union member states, non-EU countries in the open-border Schengen (...)
Kenya was elected to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, defeating Djibouti in a second-round of voting by the 193-member General Assembly after an initial ballot failed to produce a clear winner.
Mexico, India, Ireland, Norway - who were elected (...)
Public health and tobacco control scientists and experts are highlighting the 1.1 billion smokers and millions of smoking quitters' need to access appropriately regulated nicotine products.
These include through vapes (e-cigarettes), Swedish snus, (...)
France will lift restrictions at its borders for EU travellers on June 15, the French Interior and Foreign ministries said.
"Given a favourable development of the health situation in France and Europe and in accordance with the recommendations of (...)
Germany will extend its travel warning for non-European countries until the end of August but lift border controls to all its neighbours by mid-June, ministers said on Wednesday.
As the coronavirus crisis in many European countries eases somewhat, (...)
Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers said on Monday.
In a modelling study of lockdown (...)
