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Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Affairs strongly condemned on Sunday an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh that killed an Egyptian woman and injured five other Egyptian nationals. The ministry said continued attacks on Saudi territory threatened civilian…
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said Egypt and Indonesia aim to increase bilateral trade to $5bn by 2030, while expanding joint manufacturing projects and attracting more Indonesian investment to the Egyptian market. Al-Sisi made the remarks following talks with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at the Merdeka…
The World Bank Group has mobilised nearly $6.7bn in private capital for Egypt since fiscal year (FY) 2022, supporting investments in renewable energy, port infrastructure, affordable housing and entrepreneurship, according to the group. Private capital mobilisation involves attracting funding from private-sector…
Semak Pharmaceutical Group plans to double its current investment volume in 2027, with an expansion strategy focused on increasing production capacity, broadening its personal care portfolio and expanding distribution across Egyptian pharmacies. The company’s expansion plans centre on its manufacturing facility, Brand…
Health and Population Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar discussed expanding the use of economic and social research in health policymaking with Germany’s WifOR Institute, focusing on how improved health outcomes affect productivity, labour-force participation and human-capital development. The talks took place on the…
Egypt’s exports of chemicals and fertilisers to Saudi Arabia surged 98% year on year to approximately $356m in the first eight months of 2026, up from $180m in the same period last year, making the Kingdom the sector’s sixth-largest export market, according to the Export Council for Chemical Industries and…
Minister of Youth and Sports Gohar Nabil and Islam Azzam, Chairperson of the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA), witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to empower young Egyptians and develop their capabilities in entrepreneurship, innovation, financial technology (fintech) and non-banking…
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly met Ahmed Rostom, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, on Sunday to review the ministry’s key priorities, including the main features of the economic and social development plan for fiscal year 2026/2027, which targets economic growth of 5.4% and total investments of EGP…
Egypt’s annual inflation rate rose slightly to 12.8 percent in September 2026, compared to 12.7 percent in August, as rising food prices, particularly vegetables, contributed to higher living costs, according to data released by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on Saturday, 10…
Egyptian authorities have refloated the cruise ship “Courchette”, carrying 99 tourists of various nationalities after it ran aground in the Nile, opposite the dock of the Kom Ombo Temple in Aswan. River police and rescue units intervened to handle the incident, successfully returning the ship to its navigational…
Islamabad — Key Saudi ally Pakistan has confirmed it has troops stationed in the Gulf kingdom, as Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen continue cross-border attacks with deadly assaults on airports. “The forces of Pakistan are already there. That I can share with you,” Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry told CNN in an…
There are no signs for it, no manual, no test to pass, but every driver in Cairo knows the rules of the road that matter most are the ones nobody wrote down. A honk means “move, I am coming through”. A raised hand means “sorry”. An arm out the window means “I’m turning, whether the blinkers are on or not”. A microbus…
Kyiv, Ukraine — At least 33 people were killed on Thursday when a Russian strike caused two public buses to catch fire in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said, making it the deadliest single attack this year. Another 18 people were injured in the attack in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, which prompted…
Banque du Caire announced its plans on 11 October to sell 30 percent of its capital to the public, a long-anticipated move on the Egyptian Exchange that has been repeatedly postponed for years, according to an official statement from the bank. Banque Misr, the state-owned lender that holds the shares, will sell about…
Pope Leo XIV has announced he will undergo surgery to remove a localized lung nodule. “During some check-ups, doctors discovered a localized nodule on my lung,” the 71-year-old pope told those gathered in St Peter’s Square for the Angelus prayer on Sunday. “It was detected at a very early stage and is well-defined…
At least 12 people were killed and hundreds wounded when Yemen’s Houthi militants struck Riyadh’s international airport with a missile on Saturday, in Saudi Arabia’s deadliest attack in more than a decade. It was the third missile strike this week on the King Khalid International Airport, which has been closed until…
Egypt has completed the restoration of the “Portrait of the Two Brothers,” one of the ancient Fayoum portraits, in cooperation with Italy, as part of efforts to preserve the country’s cultural heritage. Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy announced the completion of the project at a press conference held…
EgyptAir announced the suspension of flights from Cairo and Alexandria airports to Riyadh due to the temporary suspension of operations at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, resulting from regional tensions and the Saturday attack at the airport. The airline indicated that flights will remain suspended until…
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation on Sunday announced that the toll from the attack targeting King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh had risen to 12 casualties and 309 injuries. The victims were of various nationalities, the authority noted, while assessments of material damage remain ongoing. In…
An Egyptian was among 12 people killed and 309 injured in Saturday's attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, Saudi authorities said.
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Over the weekend in downtown Cairo, an exhibition turned donated clothing that might once have ended up in a landfill into a curated material system, sorted by color, texture, and pattern, inviting visitors to see textile waste as a resource. The Egyptian Clothing Bank (ECB), a nonprofit organization, held the fourth…
Protecting cultural heritage is no longer a local matter or the responsibility of any single state, but a shared human responsibility that requires international cooperation between cultural, academic, and technology institutions, Ashraf El-Ezaby, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Culture, stated. On 9…
South African jurist and former United Nations human rights chief Navanethem, known as “Navi” Pillay has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday, 9 October. The committee said Pillay, 85, had been instrumental in…