Twenty people were injured Sunday after a train collision in Egypt's Minya Province caused two carriages to fall into an irrigation canal, Egyptian authorities said.
The Egyptian National Railways (ENR) stated that the accident occurred when one (...)
It would take a remarkable child acting performance to rival Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett on screen. But that's exactly what untried prodigy Aswan Reid has done in her latest movie, critics say. Barely 11 years old when The New Boy was shot (...)
Georgi Gospodinov is the first Bulgarian to win the prestigious award for his novel 'Time Shelter', beating out five other writers on the shortlist.
Georgi Gospodinov has made history with his book 'Time Shelter', which becomes the first ever book (...)
Regional authorities in Egypt, the host country of the 2022 UN climate conference (COP27), are ramping up initiatives designed to improve the country's environmental credentials, and speed up its transition to a low carbon economy. The event will (...)
A tourist bus collided with a truck on a highway in southern Egypt and burst into flames on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people including four French and a Belgian, the Associated Press reported.
Along with the tourists, five Egyptians were killed (...)
A rare storm in Egypt has sparked flash floods that killed at least three people and washed swarms of scorpions into people's homes, CNN reported.
More than 500 people were stung by scorpions who sought refuge from thunderstorms and torrential (...)
RIYADH — Misk Art Institute, an affiliate of the Prince Muhammad Bin Salman Foundation (Misk), has launched an initiative to write and publish a series of art books about Saudi and Arab artists in both Arabic and English, under the name 'Art (...)
ACWA Power, a leading Saudi developer, investor and operator of power generation and desalinated water plants in 13 markets, has finalised the project agreements for the 200MW Kom Ombo PV plant in Egypt.
The signing of the 25-year Power Purchase (...)
Over the past three weeks, the crisis has severely deepened with over half the worldwide population either confined and/or under lock-down. This has resulted in a virtual standstill of travel, dining and entertainment, which is vastly affecting our (...)
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has this week hosted an interesting conference in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, to which he invited 44 presidents and prime ministers from all over Africa. The two-day gathering draws together the threads that Putin (...)
FOLLOWING an almost three-year ban and intensive rounds of negotiations, the Russian national carrier Aeroflot resumed flights to Cairo in April 2018. The ban, which started in October 2015 following the explosion of a bomb on a Russian plane over (...)
As a young Saudi woman, I am glad to be part of such a tremendous forum that believes in youth's role in achieving peace, development and creativity for the world; a forum that prepares members of the current generation to become the leaders of the (...)
The Arab and African Youth Platform (AAYP) opened Saturday in Aswan, the Capital for African Youth. The three-day event, which concludes on Monday, is held under the auspices of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
The AAYP kicked off with a (...)
Egypt on Sunday completed a project to restore the catacombs of Kom El-Shuqafa in western Alexandria, which have been prone to groundwater leaks since they were discovered in the first decade of the 20th century.
The restoration, which began in late (...)
alfanar Energy recently signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) for 50mw PV plant under Feed - in - Tariffs Program in Egypt.
The PPA has been signed by Eng. Gamal Abdel-Rahem, EETC Chairman (...)
Dar Al-Hekma University's senior motion graphics student Tasneem Ismail wins 3rd place with her team at this year's MENA-wide Unilever Quest in Aswan, Egypt, on Feb. 22. The team members will receive COOPs and job opportunities in Unilever.
Unilever (...)
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ASWAN/LUXOR - In 1922, an enthusiastic Egyptologist named (...)
Gulf stock markets were weak on Wednesday as another slide in Doha Bank pulled down Qatar, but Dubai rose on the back of gains in a few stocks.
The Dubai index climbed 0.8 percent, bouncing from a 10-week low, although gaining stocks only marginally (...)
Red Bull are hoping Renault's revamped engine will give them the power to take on champions Mercedes in a new-look Formula One this season.
"It's a brand new engine this year, a change of philosophy," team principal Christian Horner said in a (...)
AMMAN — Designing a business model, having a team, writing strategy, and value creation, these were some of the advises that Mostafa Shams El Din, VP, Sales and New Business Development, MENA, PepsiCo gave to startups business during the last day of (...)
It'S not quite clear what Israel's new Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meant went he declared that Israel no longer has "the luxury of conducting drawn-out wars of attrition". Did he mean that the time had come to clobber the Palestinians into (...)
I recently mentioned the German word Gleichschaltung – one of the most typical words in the Nazi vocabulary.
"Gleich" means "the same", and "Schaltung" means "wiring". The long German word means that everything in the state is wired up the same way (...)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his choice for defense minister, ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman, signed a coalition agreement on Wednesday and issued assurances that the most right wing government in Israel's history would act (...)
The resignation of Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon should make Israelis more concerned about the country's future. Ya'alon's departure will cement the rise of a right-wing government committed to the indefinite occupation of millions of (...)
Egyptian Minister of Awqaf and head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Dr. Mohammed Mokhtar Gomaa, announced that all ministers, scholars and muftis participating in the 26th conference of the Council, which was held in the Egyptian (...)
