Suez Canal revenues down 40-50% amid Red Sea tension: Egypt president
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has stated that the Suez Canal revenues have dropped 40-50% amid heightened tensions in the Red Sea.
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Netanyahu Says He Won’t Bow to Pressure to Call Off Rafah Invasion
The Israeli leader has come under international pressure to drop a threatened incursion into the city where more than a million Palestinians are gathered, seeking refuge from the war.
Egypt preparing safe areas for Gaza refugees, foreign minister says
Move comes as ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas make little progress, according to key Qatar negotiatorMiddle East crisis – live updatesEgypt is preparing safe areas for Gaza refugees, Cairo has said, as the key Qatar negotiator in the ceasefire…
Desperate Egypt sells off historic hotels as it dives deeper into debt
Amid biting austerity and rising inflation, the al-Sisi government is off-loading assets – some to a convicted murderer with Emirati cashAs dusk fell over the verdant grounds of the Marriott Mena House hotel, the reflection of the Great Pyramid of Giza…
Satellite images show Egypt building mysterious wall near Gaza: Report
The Egyptian government has reportedly started work on a wall near the country’s border with the Gaza Strip amid fears that a planned ground offensive by the Israeli military in Rafah will push war refugees out of the Palestinian enclave.
Egypt scraps plan to restore cladding on one of three great pyramids of Giza
Antiquities authority drops proposal for Menkaure pyramid after review prompted by international outcryEgypt has scuttled a controversial plan to reinstall ancient granite cladding on the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three great pyramids of…
Egypt building walled enclosure in Sinai for Rafah refugees, photos suggest
Monitoring group releases evidence of work that appears intended to house Palestinians in event of Israeli assault on cityMiddle East crisis – live updatesEgypt has begun building an enclosed area ringed with high concrete walls along its border with G…
Netanyahu says Israel must control Gaza’s border with Egypt, war to last months
CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retake control of the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt, expanding Israel’s mission to neutralize Hamas in a conflict it says it expects to last for months. “The war is at its heig…
UK has failed to act to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah from jail in Egypt, family says
Rishi Sunak told activist’s sister in 2022 that government was ‘totally committed’ to resolving the case The family of the imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah have said the British government has failed to act to free him…
A Look Inside Hamas’s Weapons Arsenal
SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — While hardly a match for the overwhelmingly cutting-edge and highly trained Israeli forces, Hamas’s competency on the battlefield lies not in weapons […] More
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