CAIRO, May 1 (MENA) – Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty and US Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff reviewed the latest developments on US-Iranian negotiations during a phone call on Friday. During their phone conversation, the diplomats discussed the progress of ongoing talks after Tehran presented a modified …
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The Iranian-backed Huthis in Yemen seized US funded supplies and equipment, including vehicles, after the Trump administration suspended and slashed humanitarian funding around the world and began dismantling the US Agency of International Development. Former US officials told the CNN the seizure of more than $122,000 worth of equipment in 2025, was a consequence of …
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©️ KfW Bildarchiv / photothek.net The Facility Investing for Employment has launched a competition round in Egypt. Companies as well as public and non-profit organisations can apply for co-financing grants. To be eligible for a grant, investment projects must create jobs in the private sector in Egypt. Applications can be submitted until 30 June 2026. […]
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Egypt’s Defence Minister Ashraf Salem Zaher oversaw the main phase of the “Badr 2026” tactical military exercise, conducted by a unit of the Third Field Army with live ammunition, as part of ongoing efforts to maintain combat readiness. According to a military statement, the exercise was attended by Chief of Staff Ahmed Khalifa, senior commanders, […]
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  “I’ve got nature and art and poetry, and if that isn’t enough, what is?” Vincent Van Gogh, a Dutch painter, once said.  It takes only a couple of minutes after stepping into the Van Gogh exhibition, running until June 2026 at District 5, to truly and wholeheartedly understand what he meant when he said that nature, art, and poetry can sometimes, often, be all one needs to feel content. Once you walk into the exhibition, you feel completely separated from the world that all of us inhabit, and to enter the world of a painter who, despite the grueling, ugly, and dehumanizing experiences he went through, still created a world of his own that looked at nature with a close eye, and still chose to love the beauty of nature even amidst the ugliness of his world.  So far, in just the first few weeks since its opening, the exhibition has drawn in many admirers, particularly from Egypt’s artistic community. Egyptian artists like Yousef Hanbal, who has spent years studying Van Gogh’s work at university and his relationship with nature, have long been waiting for an exhibition like thisContinue reading "Learning to Fall in Love with Nature Through Art"
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In 2003, a newly established subsidiary of Telecom Egypt called Xceed began its first contact center operations in Cairo, handling customer-facing communications for global companies. Its early contracts were straightforward: inbound voice support, handled in Arabic, English, and French. At the time, India, China, and Malaysia dominated the global outsourcing conversation, with Egypt not even on the map. Twenty three years later, the picture is unrecognizable. Egypt’s digital export revenues reached $4.8 billion (252 billion EGP) in 2025, up from $2.4 billion (126 billion EGP) just three years earlier. More than 240 global service delivery companies now run centers in the country, serving clients in over 100 countries. Egyptian professionals deliver work in more than twenty languages, across functions ranging from multilingual customer experience to engineering R&D and applied AI. At the Global Offshoring Summit in November 2025, Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) signed 55 agreements with international firms projected to create 70,000 additional jobs over the next three years, as the country moves toward its stated target of $9 billion (473 billion EGP) in export revenues and 500,000 offshoring jobs by 2026. The conventional explanation for Egypt’s offshoringContinue reading "Egypt as a Global Operations Hub: How It Got Here, and a Framework for Where It Goes Next"
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Egypt's Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhy mediated a breakthrough agreement on Monday between the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) and the Union of African Sports Confederations (UCSA), ending a long-standing dispute between the continent's two main sports (...)

Germany ranked seventh in the European Union for labour costs in 2024, with enterprises in manufacturing and services paying an average of €43.40 per hour worked, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).
This figure was about 30 per cent higher than the EU average of €33.50, (...)

Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, issued a reshuffling of assignments that included the heads of certain companies in the petroleum and mineral resources sector. The aim is to strengthen petroleum sites with the necessary competencies to achieve future objectives and to facilitate the exchange of expertise, according to the Ministry of Petroleum […]
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Iraq is moving forward with plans for the $5 billion Basra–Haditha crude oil pipeline, establishing a high-level commission to oversee development of the strategic project, Oil & Gas Middle East reported. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani has ordered the formation of the commission, to be chaired by the Oil Ministry’s Undersecretary and composed of specialized […]
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