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Coordination stepped up with sports ministry for benefit of Egyptian athletes during Paris Olympics - ambassador

Date: 2024-07-26 22:56:20 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:39 - ID:10802999

CAIRO, July 26 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador to France Alaa Youssef highlighted the close coordination between the Egyptian Embassy in Paris and the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Egyptian Olympic Committee during the recent period with the aim ....

Olympic cauldron lit as 2024 Paris Olympics open

Date: 2024-07-26 22:14:36 GMT - France - Sports - SN:38 - ID:10802991

PARIS, July 26 (MENA) - With an ambitious and unique opening ceremony, the 2024 Paris Olympics got underway when thousands of Olympians cruised along the Seine River on Friday night. The Olympic Cauldron was lit by Teddy Riner, a three-time ....

France's Macron declares Paris 2024 Olympics open

Date: 2024-07-26 22:13:34 GMT - France - Sports - SN:37 - ID:10802990

PARIS, July 26 (MENA) - French President Emmanuel Macron declared the 2024 Paris Olympic Games open on Friday during a rain-soaked ceremony in the French capital. For the first time in Olympic history, the opening ceremony took place outside the ....

Khan Yunis fighting displaces 180,000 Gazans in 4 days, UN agency says

Date: 2024-07-26 22:11:01 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:10802986

NEW YORK, July 26 (MENA) - More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis in four days, the United Nations said Friday, after an Israeli operation to extract captives' bodies from the ....

Lebanon's Hezbollah group targets sites used by Israeli forces

Date: 2024-07-26 21:53:03 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:10802970

BEIRUT, July 26 (MENA) - Lebanon's Hezbollah group said it targeted on Friday a building used by Israeli occupation forces in the Avivim settlement, north of Israel, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. The group said in a statement that ....

Egyptian ambassador asserts keenness on fostering economic cooperation with Slovenia

Date: 2024-07-26 21:47:26 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:34 - ID:10802979

CAIRO, July 26 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador in Ljubljana Nahla el Zawahiri stressed keenness on fostering economic cooperation with Slovenia in light of the longstanding friendly relations between the two countries and to benefit from available ....

EU's Borrell renews call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza Strip

Date: 2024-07-26 21:22:43 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:10802892

BRUSSELS, July 26 (MENA) - The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, on Friday renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire and guaranteeing humanitarian access in the war-torn Gaza Strip. “We call for an immediate ceasefire,” he ....

2024 Paris Olympics kick off along River Seine

Date: 2024-07-26 21:00:17 GMT - France - Sports - SN:32 - ID:10802834

PARIS, July 26 (MENA) - The opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics kicked off at 7:30 pm local time with a floating parade carrying nearly 7,000 athletes from around the world up the River Seine past the French capital's most famous ....

6 killed, 21 injured in traffic accident on desert road in Minya

Date: 2024-07-26 20:58:17 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:31 - ID:10802966

MINYA, Upper Egypt, July 26 (MENA) - Six people were killed and 21 others injured following a collision between a passenger bus and a heavy truck on the Eastern Upper Egypt Desert Road in front of the tollgate in Minya Governorate. Police, ....

Egyptian security delegation to take part in Gaza ceasefire talks in Rome on Sunday, source says

Date: 2024-07-26 20:26:13 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:28 - ID:10802934

CAIRO, July 26 (MENA) - An Egyptian security delegation will take part in a four-way meeting in Rome, Italy, on Sunday, which also include Qatar, the US and Israel, to discuss the latest developments in Gaza ceasefire negotiations, a high-level ....