The United Nations Libya mission said on Thursday that nominations for leadership of a new unified transitional government must be made within a week and voting on candidates would take place in early February.
The UN in November gathered 75 Libyan (...)
Were Voltaire to visit the US these days, he would be appalled at the total desecration of his noble ideas and the impertinent violation of his lofty principle.
He would not allow such abuse of power or the deprivation of human rights.
Was this not (...)
The 32-nation 27th Men's Handball World Championship, being held in Egypt from 13 to 31 January, entered its second round, the main draw, with no major upsets.
The preliminary round concluded on Tuesday with the top three teams in each of the eight (...)
Extreme cold has hit large parts of Europe, with freezing temperatures cracking railroad tracks in Poland, snow blanketing the Turkish city of Istanbul and smog spiking as coal was being burned to generate heat.
In Switzerland, a skier who had been (...)
Four coronavirus cases have been detected from charter flights carrying tennis players, coaches and officials to Melbourne for the Australian Open, forcing 47 players into strict hotel quarantine.
Health authorities confirmed there'd been three (...)
Sultan Haitham Bin Tarek Al-Said of Oman issued two royal decrees on Monday setting up a new legislative council for the country and establishing mechanisms to appoint a crown-prince and guarantee the stability and transfer of power.
Last year, (...)
More than 80% of people in Japan who were surveyed in two polls in the last few days say the Tokyo Olympics should be canceled or postponed, or say they believe the Olympics will not take place.
The polls were conducted by the Japanese news agency (...)
Egypt's Mohandes Insurance has renewed a reinsurance contract with Swiss Re Group for another year, chairman and managing director Reda Fathy said on Tuesday.
Under the 2021 contract, the two parties agreed to increase the retention rates and (...)
At the beginning of December, Singapore became the first country in the world to approve the sale of cultured chicken or what some call lab-grown or cell-based meat. These are meats grown in laboratories using animal cells. The meats taste identical (...)
Switzerland got its first doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, paving the way for jabs to begin just as the country imposes a month-long clampdown on public life in an attempt to curb stubbornly high infection rates, health officials (...)
Although 2020 is not over yet, who knows what more it has in store for us during those final weeks? It is hard to conceive of more afflictions, therefore a sigh of relief is heard by all as its end draws near.
There were no wars, no nuclear (...)
Roger Federer said his recovery from two surgeries on his left knee earlier this year has taken longer than expected and he is unsure whether he will be ready for the Australian Open.
Federer, who turns 40 in August next year, has not played a (...)
Draw on Monday for the last 32 in the Europa League:
First Leg
Feb. 18
* Wolfsberger (Austria) vs. Tottenham (England)
* Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) vs. Club Brugge (Belgium)
* Real Sociedad (Spain) vs. Manchester United (England)
* Benfica (Portugal) vs. (...)
No one has seen Algerian President Abdelmejid Tebboune publicly in over 50 days after he contracted the Covid-19 virus two months ago.
His last appearance was on 15 October. After initial treatment in a local military health facility, Tebboune, 75, (...)
World champions France were handed an apparently comfortable draw in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers when they were placed with Ukraine, Finland, Bosnia and Kazakhstan in European Group D on Monday.
The French recently beat Ukraine 7-1 in a friendly (...)
Striker Olivier Giroud scored four goals as Chelsea comfortably beat Sevilla 4-0 to secure first place in Group E of the Champions League on Wednesday.
Both teams had already qualified for the knockout stage in advance and rested several regular (...)
As part of its Impacts programme, Savills, the leading global real estate advisors, has recently published some new research confirming the extent of estimated future global demand in laboratory and office space associated with life science.
The (...)
Twin explosions in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan killed at least 14 people and wounded 45 more, provincial officials said on Tuesday, as the international community pledged assistance for Afghanistan at a conference in Switzerland.
The two (...)
A Swiss woman attacked two other women in a supermarket in southern Switzerland on Tuesday, regional police said, adding that "terrorist motives" could not be excluded.
Police in Switzerland's Italian-speaking Ticino region said they had been (...)
A World Health Organization (WHO) special COVID-19 envoy predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of infections.
"They missed (...)
With three World Cup winners and his own top ranked Belgian team qualifying for the final four, Roberto Martinez believes the Nations League is fast becoming an estimable part of the football calendar.
“This is only the second edition but when you (...)
Spain handed Germany its worst defeat in a competitive match on Wednesday, winning 6-0 to advance to the Final Four of UEFA's Nations League.
Ferran Torres scored a hat trick to lead Spain to the historic victory in the win-or-go-home match in Group (...)
Essam El-Hadary, the oldest keeper in history to play at a World Cup and Egypt's iconic shot-stopper, announced on Wednesday that he is retiring from the game after a hugely successful career characterized by on-field heroics and unyielding (...)
The cultural activities have started gradually to reopen in the country. The reopening has included theatres, museums, galleries, national circus, which operate under the culture ministry. In its first stage, the resumption of activities will be (...)
Although the first round of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) ended this week without an agreement over a new unified executive authority to oversee the transition to elections next year, the participants did agree on a roadmap that (...)
