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President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
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Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly
A man takes pictures as the US coastguard training vessel Eagle passes through the Panama Canal on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Donald Trump

Trump says US ships should travel through Panama and Suez canals for free

The US president says he has asked US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to ‘immediately take care of’ the matter.

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Crime

Wife of former US senator Bob Menendez convicted in bribery scheme

France

‘A more reliable partner’: how France’s Palestine push could isolate the US

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Science

China offers high-performance, low-cost satellites to belt and road countries

Breakthrough makes powerful sub-metre Kuanfu 02B the lightest on the market, Chang Guang Satellite Technology says.

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Chinese satellite maker Chang Guang Satellite Technology has launched 219 satellites. Photo: Handout
Israel-Gaza war

Hamas ‘ready to release all remaining hostages’ for end to Gaza war

Khalil al-Hayya, who leads the Hamas negotiating team for indirect talks with Israel, said the group refused an interim truce deal.

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China-Middle East relations

Chinese Y-20 transport planes arrive in Egypt ahead of joint air drills

At least five planes are known have landed in Cairo ahead of the Eagle of Civilization 2025 exercises.

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Israel-Gaza war

Hamas offers ‘serious prisoner swap’ for guarantees Israel will end Gaza war

Hamas proposed releasing all Israeli hostages for a significant prisoner swap and an end to the Gaza conflict, demanding guarantees to ensure Israel’s compliance.

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Fighters of the Islamic Jihad and Ezz al-Din Al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, stand during the hand-over of three Israeli hostages to representatives of the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis On February 2. Photo:dpa
Israel-Gaza war

Israel expanding Gaza offensive, seizes key corridor

The IDF also launched strikes in the Khan Younis area after ordering tens of thousands of residents to evacuate.

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Israel-Gaza war

French President Macron meets Egyptian leader Sisi in Cairo for Gaza talks

On Monday, Macron, Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II will hold a summit as Israel renews its offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

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Israel-Gaza war

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill dozens as Netanyahu heads to US for war talks

Israel’s PM said he would discuss the Gaza war and a tariff imposed on Israel with Trump.

A mourner at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reacts on Monday near the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters
Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu offers Hamas leaders Gaza exit but demands group disarm

Israeli leader says his country is working towards a plan proposed by US President Donald Trump to displace Gazans to other countries.

Fighters of the Islamic Jihad and Ezz al-Din Al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during the handover of three Israeli hostages in February. File photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa
Offbeat

What is sock ball? How the game played on small streets got big

The first type of football played by many in Egypt, sock ball has become a show of celebration during Ramadan in the country.

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas agrees to Gaza ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar

Israel, which has not yet agreed to the proposal, continued its military strikes on Saturday, killing at least 20 Palestinians.

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Russia

6 Russians die as Egyptian tourist submarine sinks

Egypt’s Hurghada is popular with tourists from Russia.

An Egyptian police vehicle in front of the hospital where the bodies of foreigners who were killed when a tourist submarine sank off Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, and whose whose nationalities are still unknown, are kept in Hurghada, Egypt. Photo: Reuters
Israel-Gaza war

Hamas in no-win situation as Israeli strikes on Gaza resume

Experts say Hamas faces dwindling options amid renewed Israeli attacks on war-torn Gaza.

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An Israeli military helicopter on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Israel-Gaza war

Israel team discusses Gaza hostages at truce talks dogged by divisions

Despite the fragile truce still holding, near-daily Israeli air strikes on Gaza continue.

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas to release American hostage, Israel calls it ‘psychological warfare’

Hamas will also release the bodies of four other dual nationality hostages.

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Tourism

July opening for Grand Egyptian Museum, twice as big as the Louvre

Treasures of Tutankhamen will take pride of place when the museum, showing more than 100,000 artefacts from Egypt’s golden age, opens fully.

A colossal statue of King Ramses II greets visitors to the Grand Egyptian Museum. Photo: AFP
Israel-Gaza war

Muslim nations reject Trump’s Gaza plan to remove Palestinians

Foreign ministers backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead.

Donald Trump

‘Mere document’: Arab states’ Gaza recovery plan fails to sway Trump

The Arab proposal calls for a three-phase, five-year process without any displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.

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Israel-Gaza war

Arab states adopt Egyptian alternative to Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’

The reconstruction proposal would cost US$53 billion and avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave, unlike the US plan.

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Palestinians spending time on a beach, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City. Photo: Reuters
Israel-Gaza war

Israel PM issues threat to Hamas over hostages as Gaza talks at an impasse

As Arab leaders prepared for summit in Cairo, Netanyahu warned Hamas would face ‘unimaginable consequences’ if it did not return hostages.

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday. Photo: dpa
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Israel sends tanks into West Bank for first time in decades

Palestinian authority criticises ‘dangerous escalation’ as Israel ramps up West Bank offensive.

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Israel-Gaza war

Deadline diplomacy: Arab nations mobilise against Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ scheme

With lives at stake, the Arab world is rallying to counter what analysts described as the US president’s ‘deranged ethnic-cleansing plan’.

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Israel-Gaza war

Arab leaders meet to craft counter to Trump’s Gaza plan

The US president has proposed to ‘take over’ the Palestinian territory and relocate its over 2 million residents to Egypt and Jordan.

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(From left) Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Emir of Kuwait Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, Jordan Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah and UAE’s National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nahyan pose for a picture during their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. Photo: Saudi Ministry of Media via AP
History

Egypt announces first discovery of pharaoh’s tomb in over 100 years

Archaeologists uncover Thutmose II’s tomb near Luxor, marking Egypt’s first royal tomb discovery since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.

The entrance to the tomb of King Thutmose II in Luxor in southern Egypt. Photo: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities via AFP
Israel-Gaza war

Hamas to hand over 4 bodies, including Bibas children, and 6 living hostages

The militants say Shiri Bibas and sons Ariel and Kfir were killed in an Israeli attack, but Israel says their deaths have not been confirmed.

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Israel-Gaza war

‘We’re not clinging to power’: Hamas ready to stop governing Gaza to extend truce

This concession, announced by Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qasim, aims to fulfil one of Israel’s demands for a second phase of the truce.

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