Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1619026162455413100 Wed, 2021-04-21 20:32 BEIRUT: Subsidized food commodities are disappearing from store shelves minutes after being replenished, as people rush to stores amid talks about lifting subsidies by the end of Ramadan. Caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi … read more
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1619024527825233200 Wed, 2021-04-21 20:06 CAIRO: Hamada Al-Sawy, Egypt’s public prosecutor, has ordered the arrest of 23 defendants involved in Sunday’s train accident in Toukh, which killed 23 people and injured 139. Those arrested include the train … read more
Author: Wed, 2021-04-21 19:38 LONDON: The UK government has admitted that it has not carried out an impact assessment for its 60 percent cut in aid to Yemen. “We haven’t done an impact assessment,” Chris Bold, development director for Yemen at … read more
Tue, 2021-04-20 18:30 CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, accompanied by a team of ministers, visited Tripoli on Tuesday to discuss economic and political cooperation with the Libyan Government of National Unity. It followed instructions from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, … read more
Mon, 2021-04-19 20:32 BEIRUT: Syrian refugees in Lebanon have expressed bitterness and disappointment ahead of elections that are expected to keep President Bashar Assad in office. The Syrian Parliament has set May 26 as the date for the poll. Assad won … read more