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AFP, Published on 05/09/2022
» CAIRO: Residents of a Nile island in greater Cairo woke up in recent weeks to find officials taking measurements of their houses -- a final step before enforcing demolition orders.
AFP, Published on 10/07/2022
» CAIRO - Supporters of prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who on Sunday will mark 100 days on a hunger strike, are calling on Washington to help secure his release, a statement said.
AFP, Published on 10/07/2022
» MINA, Saudi Arabia: Thousands of Muslim pilgrims cast pebbles in the "stoning of the devil" ritual marking the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday Saturday, as a hajj pilgrimage that drew 900,000 visitors began winding down.
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/06/2022
» In a gold-rich area 320 kilometres north of the Sudanese capital, a mysterious foreign operator dominates the business.
AFP, Published on 21/01/2022
» SANAA - An air strike has destroyed a prison in the Huthi rebel stronghold of Saada in northern Yemen, leaving many dead or wounded, the insurgents said Friday as the Red Cross confirmed an attack.
AFP, Published on 21/11/2021
» EL-GOUNA (EGYPT) - Naguib Sawiris -- one of Africa's richest men, with an estimated fortune of over $3 billion -- has warned that the Egyptian government's involvement in the private sector makes for an unfair playing field.
AFP, Published on 15/05/2021
» GENEVA: The World Health Organization issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be "far more deadly", as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped.
AFP, Published on 14/05/2021
» WASHINGTON - The top US health agency on Thursday said it was lifting mask-wearing guidance for people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, a watershed moment that President Joe Biden called "a great day" in the long pandemic fight.
AFP, Published on 07/12/2020
» PARIS: Ten years ago, as protests flared across the Arab world, Western governments failed to meet a date with destiny and help nurture dreams of democracy, missing an unprecedented chance to shape real reform.
AFP, Published on 30/11/2020
» BEIRUT - Few of the pro-democracy protesters who took the Middle East by storm a decade ago had a flag to raise or a leader to follow. But all of them had a song to sing.