Installation of the fifth tier of the reactor building inner containment of the first unit at Egypt’s El Dabaa nuclear power plant has started, the Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) said on Saturday. The inner containment structure is a cylindrical structure housing the nuclear reactor and equipment belonging to the plant’s primary circuit. The fifth …
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Harare, Zimbabwe AP —  Eighteen children were among more than 70 people killed when an overloaded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe this week, police said Saturday after rescuers recovered more bodies. The ferry capsized in strong waves on Tuesday. Police said that 26 more bodies had been recovered since then, bringing the death toll …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued two decrees appointing Artur Lyukmanov as the Ambassador Extraordinary to Egypt and the Plenipotentiary Representative of Russia to the League of Arab States. Born in 1977, Lyukmanov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000 and holds a […]
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A new archaeological discovery at Tell Abu Saifi in Qantara East, Ismailia, is shedding new light on the ancient Horus Military Road and strengthening the hypothesis that the site may be linked to the lost ancient Egyptian city of “Mesen,” according to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The Egyptian archaeological mission working at the […]
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Egypt and Turkey signed several cooperation agreements in Alamein, North Coast on 13 August, covering transportation, infrastructure, logistics, investment and trade, as the two countries seek to deepen bilateral economic ties and increase trade to USD 15 billion (EGP 747 billion). The agreements were signed during the second meeting of the Egyptian-Turkish Joint Planning Group, co-chaired by Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. The meeting brought together representatives from the investment, trade, petroleum, and health and population ministries of both countries. Abdelatty and Fidan signed the protocol for the meeting before proceeding with a number of cooperation agreements. Among the agreements, Egypt formally joined a memorandum of understanding on logistical connectivity involving the transport ministries of several African countries and Türkiye’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. A separate decision on rules of origin was also signed by Egyptian Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Mohamed Farid Saleh and Fidan under the joint committee established through the countries’ free trade agreement. Rules of origin determine the country in which a product is considered to have been produced for trade purposes, helping establish which goods qualify forContinue reading "Egypt, Turkey Sign Cooperation Agreements in Alamein, Discuss $15B Trade Target"
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A man opened fire on relatives of his ex-wife during a reconciliation meeting outside Cairo on Thursday, 13 August, killing four people and wounding two others in an attack that has renewed alarm in Egypt over a string of extreme family and social violence. The shooting took place in the 15th of May district, south of the capital, during a session convened to resolve a dispute between the suspect and his former wife. Instead, the gathering ended in gunfire. Among the dead were the suspect’s own daughter, two of his ex-wife’s brothers and her cousin’s husband. Two other relatives were wounded. Police arrested the suspect after neighbors reported hearing shots. The attack came just days after another killing that had already gripped the country. In New Cairo, a man fatally shot an acquaintance, then killed the victim’s wife and two daughters, reportedly in an attempt to rob the family.  According to Egypt’s Interior Ministry, the assailant lured the man away and shot him before dumping his body along a road to Ain Sokhna. He then deceived the victim’s wife into believing her husband had been hospitalized after a car accident,Continue reading "Man Kills Four After Opening Fire on Ex-Wife’s Family Near Cairo"
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Pharaonic Petroleum Company (PhPC) achieved 100% of its production target for fiscal year (FY) 2025/26, Hossam Zaki, the company’s Chairman, said, while outlining plans to increase natural gas and condensate production by maximizing the use of existing infrastructure. The company is also preparing to bring the Tort-6 well in the Mediterranean onto production before the […]
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TAQA Arabia, through its subsidiary Rosetta Energy Solutions, Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC), and Africa50, a pan‑African infrastructure investment platform, have signed a Gas Sales Agreement (GSA) for East Africa LNG (EALNG), the venture developing Tanzania’s first small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility. The partners plan to invest in, develop, and operate the facility to […]
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