Nemat Shafik, also known as Minouche Shafik, is an Egyptian economist who currently occupies the position of the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the first woman in the school's history to hold this (...)
Hundreds of thousands of people opposed to Britain's withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum as the deepening Brexit crisis risked sinking Prime Minister Theresa May's (...)
Reform in Africa has been at the forefront of the continent's priorities as a result of the complicated, and sometimes chronic, problems African states have experienced over recent decades.
As a result of the fluctuating performance of many (...)
Prime Minister Theresa May will request a short delay to Brexit on Wednesday after her failure to get a divorce deal ratified left the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union in turmoil.
The delay, nearly three years since the United (...)
British lawmakers will vote on Thursday on a government proposal setting out what Prime Minister Theresa May says are the options on how long to delay Brexit.
Lawmakers will be asked to approve a statement setting out the option to have a short (...)
US President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized British Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of the Brexit talks for Britain's departure from the European Union and said another referendum on the issue would be unfair to the side that won.
Trump, (...)
Reform in Africa has been at the forefront of the continent's priorities as a result of the complicated, and sometimes chronic, problems African states have experienced over recent decades.
As a result of the fluctuating performance of many (...)
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry is following all the needed procedures to ensure the return of the remains six Egyptian victims killed in the Ethiopian jet crash near Addis Ababa earlier this week, a Tuesday ministry's statement stated.
The Ethiopian (...)
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy was in meltdown on Monday after her failure to win last-minute concessions from the European Union set the stage for another humiliating defeat of her divorce deal in parliament.
Just 18 days (...)
British Prime Minster Theresa May's Brexit deal faces a heavy defeat in parliament on Tuesday because she has so far secured no major changes from the European Union, the leaders of two major eurosceptic factions in parliament said on Sunday.
Just (...)
British police briefly shut London's Westminster bridge and roads close to parliament and the capital's police headquarters on Saturday due to a suspicious vehicle.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said officers had sealed off roads at (...)
Britain cannot accept Michel Barnier's proposal to break the deadlock in the Brexit talks because it would risk the unity of the United Kingdom by treating Northern Ireland differently, the chairman of the ruling Conservative Party said.
Less than (...)
Egypt and the United Kingdom have kicked off the joint military exercise ‘Ahmose' on Tuesday with an inaugural ceremony at the Mohamed Naguib Military Base in Alexandria.
In a press release, the UK Embassy in Cairo said the month-long exercise, (...)
Britain's opposition Labour Party will back a new referendum on Brexit after parliament defeated its alternative plan for leaving the European Union, its eurosceptic leader Jeremy Corbyn said.
With 29 days left until the United Kingdom is due to (...)
Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday offered lawmakers the chance to vote in just over two weeks time on whether to delay Brexit or go for a potentially disorderly no-deal exit from the European Union if her attempt to ratify a divorce deal (...)
Ireland cannot accept a post-Brexit border backstop that has a time limit or a unilateral exit clause, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Sunday.
"We are happy to discuss with the United Kingdom assurances that they may need to give them further (...)
British lawmakers could be given a vote on a revised Brexit deal as soon as next week as negotiators in Brussels scramble to clinch last-minute changes to divorce accord that would avoid a potentially disorderly exit from the European Union.
Unless (...)
On a day of drama, prominent Labour MPs Chuka Umunna, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Chris Leslie, Gavin Shuker, Luciana Berger and Ann Coffey announced they are quitting the ranks of the Labour Party in protest at what they said is a culture of (...)
A day after British Defence Minister Gavin Williamson accused Moscow of “trying to goad the West” in a bellicose speech, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called him Britain's minister of war.
Williamson, addressing the Munich Security (...)
The European Union has given inter-European diplomatic relations some of the highest degrees of maturity and coordination yet achieved, though this was not done overnight.
It followed nearly two millennia of struggles from the time of the Roman (...)
As Britain's exit from the European Union grows closer with no agreement reached on the Irish border, many in Ireland fear that pro-Brexit British politicians have forgotten the bombs and bullets of three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland and (...)
The value of trade exchange between Egypt and the world increased by 13.7% in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY) 2018/19, reaching $23.4bn up from $20.58bn in the same period of FY 2017/18, according to the Central Bank of (...)
Protesters wearing reflective safety vests have unsettled France for months, halting traffic, chanting slogans and at times clashing violently with police.
Promises by President Emmanuel Macron to raise worker pay and cut taxes have not quelled the (...)
The European Union will make no new offer on Brexit and those who promoted Britain's exit without any understanding of how to deliver it deserve a special place in hell, Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.
The United Kingdom is on (...)
The Berlinale 2019 announced on Tuesday the multitalented international jury which will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale 2019.
Seventeen films are competing for the awards in this year's competition, and the (...)
