Residents of Japan will be able to apply for tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games from May 9, the organising committee said on Thursday.
Residents will be able to apply through the lottery system, which runs from May 9-28, before finding out if (...)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on April 26 to discuss trade and efforts to contain North Korea's nuclear program, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
Abe is one of Trump's closest (...)
The Olympic basketball tournament has been shortened for the 2020 Tokyo Games to cut the number of group matches from five to three for each team.
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) says the new format will feature three four-team groups (...)
Dr. Roshdi Rashed is one of the world's great philosophers and science historians. He worked as a professor in the universities of Paris, Berlin and Tokyo. He has received many international accolades and prizes.
Rashed was born in Cairo and settled (...)
An international scientific team on Wednesday announced a milestone in astrophysics - the first-ever photo of a black hole - using a global network of telescopes to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no matter or (...)
Egypt and Saudi Arabia can lead the Middle East region toward stability, President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), Kenichiro Sasae, said, adding that the region is suffering from several challenges, especially the countries (...)
Amateur boxing's governing body AIBA says that uncertainty over the sport's participation in next year's Olympic Games is a disaster for boxers who have been left in limbo.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched an inquiry into the (...)
Vladimir Putin wants Russian athletes and officials to play by anti-doping rules ahead of next year's Olympics.
In televised comments on Wednesday, the Russian president said efforts should be made ''so that we don't give any pretext to those who (...)
The IOC has confirmed weightlifting's place at the 2024 Paris Olympics after a review of persistent doping problems, as long as the sport's governing body meets certain conditions.
The Olympic body says the International Weightlifting Federation (...)
Tutankhamun fever hit the French capital this week as Paris is welcoming the “Tutankhamun, the Treasures of the Pharaoh” exhibition on its second leg after Los Angeles in the US as part of a worldwide tour.
The features of the golden boy-king can (...)
Tutankhamun fever hit the French capital this week as Paris is welcoming the “Tutankhamun, the Treasures of the Pharaoh” exhibition on its second leg after Los Angeles in the US as part of a worldwide tour.
The features of the golden boy-king can be (...)
Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics organizers launched their ambitious Robot Project on Friday, unveiling two of the robots designed to assist supporters, workers and athletes at the Games.
The two products, Toyota's Human Support Robot (HSR) and (...)
The Egyptian weightlifting champion, Neama Said, is competing in the 2019 IWF Youth World Championships held in Las Vegas, the United States, in the 59 kg category, according to Mahmoud Mahgoub, president of the Egyptian Weightlifting (...)
The Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry, Amr Nassar, and the Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Sahar Nasr, agreed with the Japanese External Trade Organisation (JETRO) to boost cooperation in small and medium-sized (...)
The Sharm El-Sheikh Asian Film Festival kicked off its 3rd edition with 12 films in its main competition for features films, including works from all over the continent.
Indonesian filmmaker Ravi Bharwani delivers a humanitarian story in his film 27 (...)
A Japanese business mission met with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Monday where the Japanese side invited him to visit Japan in June and August 2019, Ibrahim El-Araby, the chairperson of the Egypt-Japan Business Council (EJBC), said over (...)
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Amr Nassar, met with a delegation of Japanese businesspersons visiting Egypt currently to discuss the importance of enhancing the Egyptian-Japanese cooperation in industry in Africa through the establishment of (...)
Egypt's Ahmed Al-Gendi claimed two gold medals in the men's event and the team mixed relay of the first of the five-series Modern Pentathlon World Cup held in Cairo. Al-Gendi super-powered his opponents as he took the gold medal in the men's events (...)
Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn left prison on a $9 million bail on Wednesday, slipping past a throng of reporters in a blue cap and surgical mask, after vowing to mount a defence against financial misconduct charges that he has called (...)
A Japanese court granted bail to ousted Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Tuesday but prosecutors swiftly appealed the decision, delaying an immediate release of the once-feted executive after more than three months in jail.
Judges at the Tokyo (...)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is committed to help North African countries to integrate with the Sub Saharan countries, the EBRD'S Managing Director for Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMED), Janet Heckman, (...)
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has been re-elected president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) for an eighth term despite being embroiled in a forgery case brought by Swiss investigators.
The long-serving Kuwaiti, a powerful ally of International (...)
By winning both the women's and men's gold medals, Haidi Adel and Sherif Nazir have reserved the African quota seats for the Olympic Games in the summer of 2020 in Tokyo.
The one-day Olympic qualifying African Modern Pentathlon Championship was held (...)
Olympic 400-metres champion Wayde van Niekerk is unsure whether he will defend his title at the World Athletics Championships in Doha in September, instead setting his sights on retaining the gold medal he won in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Van Niekerk, (...)
In its first commercial screen after participating in local and international film festivals, Boody: The Sumo Pharaoh, was screened at Zawya on Sunday.
Directed by Sarah Riad, the film tells the story of Egypt's first professional Sumo wrestler in (...)
