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33 killed as Gaza City becomes focus of famine and military offensive
1News
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Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including people sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food, local hospitals said, as a famine in Gaza’s largest city puts new pressure on Israel over its 22-month...
Egypt implements EGP 12.7bn water, wastewater projects in Northwest Coast in 2024
Daily News Egypt
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August 23, 2025
Egypt has executed water and wastewater projects worth EGP 12.7bn in the Northwest Coast region over the past year, Minister of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities Sherif El-Sherbiny announced during a visit to Matrouh on Saturday....
Six students drown on school trip to Egyptian beach as 24 others injured
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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August 23, 2025
Six students have tragically died after drowning during a school trip to a beach in Egypt. Emergency services were alerted to several people in difficulty in the water at Abu Talat Beach in Alexandria. 16 ambulances were dispatched as a huge...
Six students drown at Egyptian beach while on school trip
Manchester Evening News
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August 23, 2025
Six students died after drowning on a school trip in Egypt. Emergency services raced to the scene after receiving reports that people were struggling in the water at Abu Talat Beach in Alexandria. Six students were pronounced dead at the scene,...
Pakistan's Relief Consignment to Gaza arrives at El-Arish International Airport
Sada Elbalad
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August 23, 2025
Sat 23 Aug 2025 | 06:13 PM On the special directives of Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with Al-Khidmat Foundation dispatched humanitarian and relief consignment for...
“Narrative Summit” Releases 2025 Recommendations to Cement Egypt’s Position as a Global Tourism Destination
Daily News Egypt
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August 22, 2025
The Narrative Summit, Egypt’s first international nation branding platform, has unveiled its 2025 recommendations aimed at revitalizing and strengthening the country’s standing as a world-class tourism hub. The ninth edition of the Summit, held in...
Egypt backs UN plan for Libyan elections within 12-18 months
Daily News Egypt
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August 23, 2025
Egypt on Saturday welcomed a new United Nations roadmap for resolving the crisis in Libya, which aims to form a temporary government to prepare for national elections within 12 to 18 months. In a statement, the Egyptian foreign ministry stressed...
Israeli strikes and gunfire kill 33 as Gaza City becomes focus of famine and a military...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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Aid groups have long warned that the war, sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, and months of Israeli restrictions on food and medical supplies entering Gaza are causing starvation. Israel has rejected the data-based famine declaration as “an...
Six students drown and more than a dozen injured during school trip to Egyptian beach
Daily Mail
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August 23, 2025
By ADAM POGRUND, TRAINEE REPORTER Published: 10:28 EDT, 23 August 2025 | Updated: 10:35 EDT, 23 August 2025 Six students have drowned and 24 have been injured during a school trip to an Egyptian beach. Paramedics rushed to the beach in Alexandria,...
Israeli strikes and gunfire kill 33 as Gaza City is focus of famine and a military offensive
Los Angeles Times
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August 23, 2025
KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including people sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food, local hospitals said as a famine in Gaza City sparks new pressure on...
2,200-year-old, extremely rare Egyptian gold coin found in Jerusalem, depicts queen
Interesting Engineering - New York
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August 23, 2025
During excavations of Givati Parking Lot, the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a tiny and special gold coin in the soil that belonged to Queen Berenice II, the wife of Egyptian king Ptolemy III. It’s the first gold coin to be found outside...
Egypt to maintain continuous flights during exceptional circumstances: Civil Aviation Minister
Egypt Independent
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August 23, 2025
Minister of Civil Aviation Sameh al-Hefny announced that his ministry has made a strategic decision to keep Egyptian airspace open during exceptional circumstances when neighboring countries would have closed their airspace. He explained that this...
Watch: Egyptian railway crossing guard saves young man from being struck by train
Khaleej Times
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An Egyptian railway crossing guard is accustomed to blowing his whistle to warn pedestrians of oncoming trains and keep them safe. But on one occasion, the whistle alone was not enough—he felt the urge to leap into action himself. Tarek Mohammed,...
CBE reports developments in Egypt’s external debt in 2024
Daily News Egypt
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August 23, 2025
Egypt’s external debt stood at $155.1bn in December 2024, up by about $2.2bn (1.4%) compared to June 2024. This increase was mainly due to higher disbursements of external loans, which rose by $2.8bn, as well as the appreciation of the US dollar...
Libyan file among focus of talks between Egyptian and Moroccan foreign ministers
The Libya Observer
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Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita have discussed a number of regional issues, most notably the developments of the Palestinian cause and the situations in Libya, Syria, Lebanon, and Sudan....
Global scholars underscore legal and historical basis for China's recovery of Nansha Qundao in S.China Sea
Global Times
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Photo:VCG Global scholars and experts from China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, the UK and other countries discussed the historical and legal basis for China's recovery of the Nansha Qundao in the South China Sea, and...
Moroccan and Egyptian foreign ministers pledge closer cooperation
Hespress
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August 23, 2025
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aty held a telephone conversation Friday with his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, during which the two officials reaffirmed the historic and fraternal ties linking Morocco and Egypt, the Egyptian Foreign...
Egypt’s agricultural exports rise to 6.8 million tons so far
Egypt Independent
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August 23, 2025
Agriculture and Land Reclamation Minister Alaa Farouq announced that Egypt’s agricultural exports have risen to 6.8 million tons so far this year, up more than 650,000 tons, compared to the same period in 2024. The figures were outlined in a...
Alexandria Renames Borg El Arab Airport to Alexandria International Airport
Egyptian Streets
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August 23, 2025
Alexandria Governorate, in coordination with the Ministry of Civil Aviation, announced on its official Facebook Page on 20 August that Borg El Arab International Airport will be officially renamed Alexandria International Airport starting 4...
25 people killed in Gaza as Gaza City becomes the focus of famine, a military offensive
AOL
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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 25 Palestinians including people sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food Saturday in Gaza, local hospitals said, as a famine in Gaza’s largest city sparks new pressure...