New categories to be added to Takaful and Karama project: Ghada Waly
Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Waly said in a statement on Monday that there will be new categories added to the Takaful and Karama (Solidarity and Dignity) social protection project…
Abdul Aal represents Arab Group in Inter-Parliamentary Union
Parliament speaker meets president of Inter-Parliamentary Union on Tuesday
Daily gas production up by 1.5bn scf/day: Petroleum Ministry
The Ministry of Petroleum announced that the total daily added production of natural gas since the beginning of 2017 thus far amounted to about 1.5bn standard cubic feet per day…
Winners and losers in the race to meet the Paris climate goals
A new ranking shows how European countries stack up on climate protection. How does your country compare?The Paris Agreement to limit climate change signed in 2015 had countries committing to…
Artist survives three-day burial in Australia
The 73-year-old performance artist Mike Parr emerged alive after being buried for three days under a busy road. Billed as a tribute to victims of totalitarian violence, the stunt was…
Google invests in Alibaba rival JD.com
US internet behemoth Google has announced it's investing half a billion dollars in China's second-largest e-commerce company, JD.com. The move is meant to expand its retail services around the world.Google…
Thomas Mann was disappointed by America’s populism
The German novelist and 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate moved to the US during WWII. He was however frustrated by how the country developed under McCarthy — and his…
World Cup 2018: South and Central American fans bring Latino spirit to Russia
They have spent hours on multiple planes just to get to Russia. But the long journey and huge costs have certainly not dampened the spirits of hundreds of fans from…
As US, UK ‘retail apocalypse’ deepens, EU chains grow nervous
The amount of US retail space lost in 2018 is expected to beat the record set last year. But the demise of Toys R Us, and the shutdown of a…
25-30% increase in real estate prices after fuel price hikes
Member of the board of directors of the Egyptian Federation for Construction and Building Contractors (EFCBC), Daker Abdellah, predicted that the real estate market will witness an increase of 25-30% …