Southeast Asian leaders began a crisis meeting on Myanmar on Saturday aiming to persuade Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who led the military takeover that sparked turmoil in his country, to forge a path to end the violence.
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Seven Southeast Asian leaders are expected to attend a summit with head of Myanmar's junta to discuss the crisis caused by the military coup, according to diplomats and officials in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital where Saturday's meeting will be (...)
The Cairo Opera House will hold a series of 27 artistic performances during the holy month of Ramadan, according to its Chairperson Magdy Saber.
Saber said that all the shows will start at 21:30, and will include distinguished musical and singing (...)
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 (...)
The British government is gearing up to ban international arrivals from four more countries _ Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines _ amid concerns over new virus variants but opted against including France and other European nations that (...)
Myanmar activists burned copies of a military-framed constitution on Thursday two months after the junta seized power, as a U.N. special envoy warned of the risk of a bloodbath because of an intensified crackdown on anti-coup protesters.
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One of Myanmar's main ethnic minority rebel groups warned of a growing threat of major conflict on Tuesday and called for international intervention against a military crackdown on opponents of last month's coup.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since (...)
Two suspected suicide bombers attacked a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding fourteen people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, officials said.
The congregation was concluding their mass inside the church on (...)
The UK will establish a new finance facility, located in Egypt, that aims to reinforce trade ties between the two countries, particularly in the exports sector, said Emma Wade-Smith, the UK's Trade Commissioner for Africa.
Wade-Smith made her (...)
The UK will establish a new finance facility, located in Egypt, that aims to reinforce trade ties between the two countries, particularly in the exports sector, said Emma Wade-Smith, the UK's Trade Commissioner for Africa.
Wade-Smith made her (...)
The Culture Ministry applies all precautionary and preventive measures with daily sterilization of the theatres in order to ensure the safety of the public, artists and workers.
Arab Music Institute
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Threats from China and North Korea will loom large over the Biden administration's first Cabinet-level trip abroad, part of a larger effort to bolster U.S. influence and calm concerns about America's role in Asia.
A senior administration said (...)
A total of 65 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2020 while doing their jobs, according to the International Federation of Journalists.
That is 17 more than in 2019, and the death toll is around the same level as in the 1990s, (...)
Government ministers and officials were following Prime Minister Narendra Modi lead by opting on Tuesday for an Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine approved without late-stage efficacy data, instead of the AstraZeneca one.
India's health, foreign and law (...)
A U.S. contractor died Wednesday when at least 10 rockets slammed into an air base housing U.S. and other coalition troops in western Iraq, the Pentagon said.
Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the contractor ``suffered a cardiac episode while (...)
Myanmar security forces opened fire in several places on Wednesday to break up anti-junta protests and several people were hurt, media reported, a day after a regional diplomatic push to end the month-long crisis made little headway.
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The plane laden with vaccines had just rolled to a stop at Santiago's airport in late January, and Chile's president, Sebastian Pinera, was beaming. ‘Today,' he said, ‘is a day of joy, emotion and hope'.
The source of that hope: China - a country (...)
Myanmar police opened fire on Tuesday to disperse crowds protesting against a military coup as foreign ministers of neighbouring countries prepared to hold talks with the junta in a bid to find a peaceful way out of the crisis.
The talks, to be held (...)
نقل خمسة أشخاص على الأقل، اليوم الاثنين 1 مارس، إلى قسم الطوارئ بأحد مستشفيات الفلبين بعد خضوعهم للتطعيم ضد فيروس كورونا.
وأوضحت قناة CNN Philippines، عبر صفحتها في "تويتر"، إلى أن أحد الأشخاص الخمسة ظهر على جلده طفح، ما يمكن أن يكون عرضا لرد فعل (...)
Egypt has witnessed the signing ceremony of a three-year partnership deal between Enhanced Labs and their newest brand ambassadors Mamdouh "Big Ramy" Elssbiay, Mr. Olympia 2020 champion, and bodybuilding legend Dennis "The Menace" James.
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Indonesia is pushing Southeast Asian neighbours to agree on an action plan over Myanmar's coup that would keep the junta to its promise of holding elections, with monitors to ensure they are fair and inclusive, three sources familiar with the move (...)
In common with the rest of the world, everyone in Egypt is currently living through the dramatic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the crisis provides an opportunity to advance the reform agenda in support of reaching the country's (...)
The United States rejects China's maritime claims in the South China Sea beyond what it is permitted under international law and stands with Southeast Asian nations resisting its pressure, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on (...)
South Korea's Ulsan Hyundai will be among the favourites to advance to the knockout rounds of this year's Asian Champions League after the defending champions were drawn to face a pair of debutants in the competition's group phase on (...)
China said on Tuesday it will conduct military exercises in the South China Sea this week, just days after Beijing bristled at a U.S. aircraft carrier group's entry into the disputed waters.
A notice issued by the country's Maritime Safety (...)
