Asia surpassed 10 million infections of the new coronavirus on Saturday, the second-heaviest regional toll in the world, according to a Reuters tally, as cases continue to mount in India despite a slowdown and sharp declines elsewhere.
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Viruses are ancient. They predate the divergence of life, thus infecting our last universal common ancestor.
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A group of prominent Facebook critics, including one of the social network's early investors and a journalist facing jail time in the Philippines, are launching their version of an ``oversight board'' to rival the company's own.
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The subject: coronavirus. The status: urgent. The solutions: as diverse as the nations they lead.
With the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly reduced to recorded speeches because of the pandemic, leaders are using this week as an opportunity to (...)
Southeast Asia's top diplomats held their annual talks by video Wednesday to discuss the immense crisis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and rising tensions in the South China Sea amid the escalating rivalry between Washington and Beijing.
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The Western media remains adamant about speaking ill of Egypt. A recent headline in the American magazine Foreign Affairs reads, “The Pandemic Tips the Balance Between Mosque and State,” for example, with the article below considering Egypt's, and (...)
A bombing in a town on a restive southern Philippines island killed nine people and wounded dozens on Monday, among them soldiers and civilians, the military said, with Islamist militants suspected of being behind the attack.
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Russia is looking to partner with Egypt in producing its coronavirus vaccine, branded Sputnik V, said the Russian ambassador in Cairo Georgy Borisenko on Wednesday.
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The Philippines plans to launch clinical trials for a Russian coronavirus vaccine in October, with President Rodrigo Duterte expected to be inoculated as early as May next year, the presidential spokesman said on Thursday.
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The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the global economy as no crisis has ever done before, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently releasing a report assessing the current and future impact of it on the external sector of economies or how (...)
The Philippines recorded another jump in coronavirus cases to overtake neighbouring Indonesia as the country with the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in the eastern part of Asia.
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Egypt was the top destination for FDI in the Arab world during the past 5 years, getting $124.5 billion worth of project commitments between January 2015 and December 2019, the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (Dhaman) said in (...)
If asked to name a few of the most famous sportswomen in the world today, most people who watch, play, or read about sports would rattle off at least some names, among them Serena Williams, Simone Biles, and Maria Sharpova. But for the same people, (...)
Attracting FDI
EGYPT has attracted the lion's share of foreign direct investment (FDI) directed to the Arab world over the past five years, according to a recent report.
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Kuwait will review its suspension of flights to and from Egypt, a statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry said after a phone call between the foreign ministers of Egypt and Kuwait on Sunday.
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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.
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Kuwait will review its current suspension of flights to and from Egypt, a statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry said after a phone call between the foreign ministers of Egypt and Kuwait.
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Kuwait has banned until further notice commercial flights to 31 countries it said that it regarded as high risk due to the spread of the coronavirus, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Saturday.
The countries include Egypt, India, (...)
Philippine authorities and police will carry out house-to-house searches for COVID-19 patients to prevent wider transmission, a minister said on Tuesday, amid soaring death and infection numbers and some areas returning to a stricter (...)
US officials say the Trump administration is poised to escalate its actions against China by stepping squarely into one of the most sensitive regional issues dividing them and rejecting outright nearly all of Beijing's significant maritime claims in (...)
Relations between the US and China have crashed of late, turning from a trade fight and then a war of words over the origins of the Covid-19 to a more important investigation of individual companies and the global economy. Relations between the two (...)
The Holy Family's flight through Egypt at the start of the first century AD has continually inspired artists and events, including the annual Journey of the Holy Family to Egypt – founded and curatwed by artist Chadi Adib Salama – which in its fifth (...)
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated, and probably sharpened, the competition, if not the rivalry and conflict, between the United States and China. This at a time when the security and long-term stability of the international system calls for (...)
In our modern world, most of the peoples and nations living on Earth seek to live in harmony and peace. But seemingly not Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Last week, a Turkish court heard a petition seeking to convert the Hagia Sophia museum (...)
The Philippines reported its biggest single-day jump in new coronavirus cases on Sunday, adding 2,434 confirmed infections and taking the total count to 44,254, the health ministry said.
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