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  • SWISS suspends Zurich-Tel Aviv flights

    Date: 2024-08-02 12:19:08 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:10812404

    BERN, Aug 2 (MENA) - Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has suspended flights between Zurich and Tel Aviv from Thursday, also extending the suspension of flights between Zurich and Beirut, Swiss Radio International (Swissinfo) reported. This ....

  • Egypt, China's CSCEC sign MoU to set up medical city for hospitals & educational institutes

    Date: 2024-08-02 11:55:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:10812388

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) - Health and Population Minister Khalid Abdel Ghaffar attended on Friday the signing of a memorandum of understanding with China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd. (CSCEC) to set up a medical City for hospitals and ....

  • Transport minister inspects express train line between Alamein and Wadi el Natroun

    Date: 2024-08-02 11:54:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:10812341

    ALAMEIN, Aug 2 (MENA) – Transport Minister Kamel el-Wazir inspected Friday some of the operation sites along the first line of an express train project. The high-speed train is set to travel between Ain Sokhna, Alamein and Mersa ....

  • Petroleum minister inspects expansion work at Al Hamra Port

    Date: 2024-08-02 11:21:39 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:30 - ID:10812307

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) – Petroleum Minister Karim Badawy Friday visited the Al Hamra Petroleum Port to get firsthand information about expansion work meant to increase the storage capacity for better handling of oil products. The Petroleum Ministry ....

  • Hezbollah chief says conflict with Israel is in 'new phase' after assassinations

    Date: 2024-08-02 11:20:36 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:10812335

    LONDON, Aug 2 (MENA) - The leader of Hezbollah has said that the Lebanese group’s conflict with Israel has entered "a new phase" after the back-to-back assassinations of a senior commander and Hamas’s political chief that risk plunging the Middle ....

  • Egypt, Saudi Arabia mull regional escalation over Israeli extremist policies

    Date: 2024-08-02 10:14:54 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:27 - ID:10812215

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty on Friday made a phone call with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan. They discussed the serious regional escalation over the past days due ....

  • Electricity min., EBRD delegation discuss bilateral cooperation

    Date: 2024-08-02 10:13:47 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:26 - ID:10812187

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) - Electricity and Renewable Energy Minister Mahmoud Esmat had talks with a delegation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), led by Managing Director of Sustainable Infrastructure Group Nandita Parshad, ....

  • Health minister says keen on supporting Tanzania's health sector

    Date: 2024-08-02 09:50:36 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:23 - ID:10812251

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) – Health Minister Dr Khaled Abdel Ghaffar has expressed keenness to meet Tanzania’s need of medicines. Abdel Ghaffar, in a meeting with Tanzanian Ambassador in Cairo Richard Makanzo Friday, praised relations with Dodoma, ....

  • ECFA chief, US Assistant State Secretary discuss reducing escalation in Middle East

    Date: 2024-08-02 09:15:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:10812141

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) - Chairman of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA) Mohamed el Orabi discussed with US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara A. Leaf means of reducing the dramatic escalation in the Middle East ....

  • Biden says killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh 'doesn't help' to get ceasefire in Gaza

    Date: 2024-08-02 09:03:29 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:10812142

    WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (MENA) – US President Joe Biden said the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was not helpful to reaching a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Gaza, according to media outlets. The US president made the comment as another ....

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