Egypt's hotel market is expected to see an occupancy rate of 45% in 2021, with a 4.9 percentage point change in Market Movements from previous forecast, according to Colliers International.
The latest data by the company was published in its latest (...)
The Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) has announced the appointment of former Ambassador Osmar Chohfi as its new President.
Chohfi, whose selection was formally confirmed by the ABCC Board recently, will replace Rubens Hannun, who led the (...)
Lebanon said on Monday it hoped Saudi Arabia would reconsider a ban on its produce imposed over what Riyadh called a rise in drug smuggling, and tasked its interior minister to coordinate with the kingdom to uncover the culprits and prevent a (...)
Yemen's Houthi movement said on Sunday it had attacked and hit a military air base in southern Saudi Arabia with a drone, but the Saudi-led coalition fighting the group said it had intercepted and destroyed an armed drone fired into the kingdom.
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Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry met on Sunday with UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths in Cairo and reiterated the country's support for efforts seeking a political solution to the Yemeni crisis.
A comprehensive political (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry has reiterated his country's firm position in supporting all efforts aimed at reaching a comprehensive political solution to the Yemeni crisis.
The minister's remarks came during his meeting, on (...)
Many important archaeological discoveries have taken place at sites adjacent to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, including at the site of Halit in the governorate of Dawadmi in the Riyadh region. This site is located in the northwest of the governorate, and (...)
In the early 1970s, Henry Kissinger's theory of geopolitical balance between Beijing and Washington managed to spare the world a third world war. The veteran US diplomat was later one of the engineers of the peace accord between Egypt and (...)
According to the law, presidential elections should have been held in Syria this month, but the Syrian government delayed them in order to announce the procedures that would be used.
A period has now been set aside for prospective candidates to (...)
Senior Saudi and Iranian officials have held direct talks in a bid to repair relations between the two regional rivals, four years after they cut off diplomatic ties, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing officials briefed on the (...)
Around 2,344 Ethiopians have been evacuated from Saudi Arabia and war-torn Yemen, said Dina Mufti, a spokesperson for Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Thursday.
"The Ethiopia Ministry of Foreign Affairs has in recent days helped return (...)
The increasing importance of the Red Sea as a nexus of geopolitical competition poses security problems to countries in the region. A lack of consensus on the rules of competition among international and regional powers has only intensified the (...)
Interest in the antiquities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not been in the antiquities of the pre-Islamic era or the era of early Islam, but has also been the result of many foreign and Saudi missions to the country's prehistoric (...)
Egypt's hotel market is expected to see occupancy rates of between 35-61% in 2021, according to Colliers International's latest Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Hotels Forecast.
The company forecast that the tourism hotspots of Hurghada and Sharm (...)
Banque Misr, Egypt's second largest bank, plans to open branches in the Saudi cities of Jeddah, Riyadh, and Tabuk, chairman Mohamed El-Etreby said on Wednesday.
El-Etreby's statements came after Saudi Cabinet granted a licence for Banque Misr to (...)
Remarkably Saudi Arabia received Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, last week in a welcome show that included an air force show and a military parade with the artillery firing 21 shots, a rare salute.
Kadhimi's first visit to Riyadh since he (...)
Iraqi Airways plans to start direct flights to the United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi on May 1, the state-run Iraqi News Agency reported on Sunday, citing a company statement.
The annoucement came ahead of a visit on Sunday to Abu Dhabi by (...)
Iraq and Saudi Arabia signed five agreements on Wednesday during a visit by Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi to Riyadh, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV channel reported.
The five agreements covered financial, commercial, economic, cultural and (...)
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.
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The Omani capital Muscat has been busy with diplomatic traffic aimed at finding a way to end the six-year war in Yemen. Both UN Envoy Martin Griffiths and US Special Envoy Tim Lenderking have been shuttling between Muscat, Riyadh and Aden since (...)
An investigation by a U.N. team of experts found Yemen's Houthis were responsible for a Dec. 30 attack on Aden airport that killed at least 22 people as members of the country's internationally recognized government arrived, two diplomats familiar (...)
Saudi Arabia aims to plant 10 billion trees in the coming decades as part of an ambitious campaign unveiled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday to reduce carbon emissions and combat pollution and land degradation.
The de facto ruler of (...)
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it would allow people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend sporting events at stadiums at a capacity of 40% starting May 17 as the kingdom pushes its immunisation campaign.
The sports ministry said in a (...)
The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Houthi forces has destroyed two explosive-laden boats that the Iran-aligned group planned to use in an "imminent" attack launched from the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Saudi state media reported on Sunday.
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A fuel tank at an oil facility in Saudi Arabia caught fire after being struck in an attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels, officials said Friday, an attack that came on the sixth anniversary of the kingdom's entry into Yemen's yearslong civil war.
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