The Health Ministry said Thursday night that 42 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country to 284,170. In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said seven patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll […]
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Culture Minister Inas Abdel Dayem on Thursday attended a performance featuring Egypt’s youngest singer at the Vienna Opera Mariam Tahoun for the first time. Tahoun, 16, joined Cairo Opera’s troupe in the performance that was held on Gomhoreya Theatre in Cairo and attended by head of Cairo Opera House Magdy Saber. Abdel Dayem asserted the […]
Tunis/Tunisia — A Tunisian military plane carrying medical supplies from Austria, Malta and Luxembourg on Thursday landed at the Tunis-Carthage airport, according to a Presidency of the Republic press release. This aid consists in a lot of vaccines, oxygen concentrators and various medical supplies. The plane also brought respirators and other equipment provided by Tunisians […]
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Deputy Minister of Tourism and Antiquities for Tourism Affairs Ghada Shalaby confirmed that the ministry is paying a great attention to the tourist experiment tourists witness during their visits to Egypt. The ministry is keen on helping visitors have a distinguished tourist experiment, which encourages them to repeat the visits, given the fact that Egypt […]
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi stressed on Wednesday Egypt’s keenness to continue providing technical support for South Sudan at all levels, especially in the field of development projects, and exchanging expertise in the agricultural, irrigation, health and education domains. The president made the remarks at a meeting with Vice President of South Sudan James Wani […]
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi stressed on Wednesday Egypt’s keenness to continue providing technical support for South Sudan at all levels, especially in the field of development projects, and exchanging expertise in the agricultural, irrigation, health and education domains. The president made the remarks at a meeting with Vice President of South Sudan James Wani […]
Tunis/Tunisia — Tunisian Olympic 400m freestyle champion Ayoub Hafnaoui offers the swimming suit, with which he won the final, to the Olympic Museum, during a ceremony organised Thursday in Tokyo in the presence of International Swimming Federation (FINA) President Kuwaiti Houssain Al Musalam, the Director of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Art, Culture and Heritage […]
A judicial investigation into whether three of Tunisia’s political parties took money from foreign sources during the 2019 elections, according to reports from the Reuters news agency. The three parties include the two biggest: the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, Heart of Tunisia party, and the smaller Ayich Tounes. Heart of Tunisia was founded by private […]
Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde and his accompanying delegation visited on Tuesday27/7/2021 the Giza Plateau. Upon their arrival, they were received by Director of the Antiquities area of the Pyramids Ashraf Mohi el-Din, who took them on a tour of the major corridor running through the Great […]
Transport Minister Kamel el Wazir said President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and the government are keen to make the best use of public funds via implementing unprecedented and mega projects that cope up with international standards in the transportation field. Wazir made the remarks during the signing ceremony of the official sponsorship contract of the […]
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has launched two new promotional films on Egyptian tourism on the most important electronic platforms on social media networks of markets exporting tourists to Egypt. The films include several tourists of different nationalities speaking about their lovely experiences during their visits to Egyptian tourist resorts this month. The tourists […]
According to the report published by the Czech website Prague Morning, Egypt ranked second in the list of Czech citizens’ favorite tourist destinations for the summer 2021. This came in a report prepared by the Google search engine on the top five tourist destinations where Czech citizens are looking to spend their vacation during 2021. […]
London/United Kingdom — AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot did not increase the instances of rare blood clots with low platelets in people after the second dose, a study showed on Wednesday, potentially easing some worries over the vaccine’s side-effects. Data published in the Lancet medical journal found that the estimated rate of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) […]
Beirut/Lebanon — As thousands of devout Muslims flock to Islam’s holiest sites in Saudi Arabia for the annual haj pilgrimage this week, scientists warn the sacred rite is under threat due to deadly rising heat. The risk of pilgrims sufferingRank ( + / – ) life-threatening heat stroke could rise five-fold with global warming […]
Tunis/Tunisia — Presidential decrees terminating the duties of some officials, advisers and chargés de mission at the Prime Ministry were published Tuesday evening in the Official Gazette of the Tunisian Republic. They are six Rank ( + / – )presidential decrees. The first provides for the termination of the mission of Brigadier General Taoufik […]
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry had talks on Tuesday 27/7/2021with his South Sudanese counterpart Beatrice Khamisa Wani-Noah on efforts exerted to enhance ties between the two countries. Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Ahmed Hafez said in statements that the two sides’ talks took up the convocation of the joint committee as an important step in efforts […]
The Health Ministry said on Tuesday night 27/7/2021 that 35 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 284,090. In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said four patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising […]
Tunis/Tunisia — Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat is closely monitoring the situation in Tunisia, a statement issued Tuesday reads. In this regard, he had a telephone conversation with Tunisia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Othman Jerandi expressing the commitment of the African Union Commission to the strict respect […]