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Vai alla Scheda Paese »Peace is more valuable than any piece of land.
— Anwar al-Sadat
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Why I partner Omar Assar in doubles of 2017 ITTF World Tour – Aruna Quadri
To have an African team competing for honour at the end-of-the-year ITTF World Tour grand finals, Africa’s highest ranked player in the world, Aruna Quadri has agreed to join forces with Egypt’s Omar Assar in the doubles event of all ITTF World Tour for this year. Quadri, who started 2017 ...
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With tourists scarce, Egypt struggles to maintain heritage
For years, the ancient sites in Egypt were able to rely on a steady stream of ticket sales to finance their upkeep. But since 2011 revolution, the number of tourists visiting the country has dwindled, leaving authorities scrambling to make up for lost revenue
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Italy banks on Malta’s EU Presidency support in new drive to expel irregular migrants
Italy is relying on its long-standing yet sometimes strained friendship with Malta in a new bid to double the number of expulsions of irregular migrants from its territory. With Malta assuming the Presidency of the European Union today, the Italian government is relying on Malta’s support for its plans for ...
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Security Council supports mediation efforts, calls for humanitarian access throughout Syria
Source: UN Security Council Country: Syrian Arab RepublicThe Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution supporting efforts by the Russian Federation and Turkey to end nearly six years of bloodshed in Syria and jump-start a political process.SC/12663 Security Council 7855th Meeting (PM) The Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution supporting efforts by the Russian ...
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Methode Electronics identified Donald Trump among new potential risk factors
The American company Methode Electronics, which currently employs more than 1,200 people in its premises in Malta, has included another risk factor in its regulatory filings.The new risk factor identified by the company is called Donald Trump.According to the latest financial results for the quarter which ended in October 2016, ...
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Actress Debbie Reynolds, 84, dies a day after daughter Carrie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds, who lit up the screen in "Singin' in the Rain' and other Hollywood classics despite a tumultuous life, has died a day after losing her daughter, Carrie Fisher. Reynolds was 84.Her son, Todd Fisher, said Reynolds died Wednesday."She's now with Carrie and we're all heartbroken," Fisher said from Cedars-Sinai ...
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Putin orders Russian military to scale-down presence in Syria as cease-fire begins at midnight
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to scale down its presence in Syria, where it has provided crucial support to Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces.Putin spoke Thursday, as a Syrian cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey was set to begin at midnight.Putin didn't say how many troops ...
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Remembering Wyndham Grech, lawyer and Malta’s pioneer pilot
The year 2016 marks two related anniversaries: the first is the centenary of the first Maltese to register as a pilot and fly in the Royal Flying Corps, and the second, the death of that pilot, Squadron leader Wyndham Grech, 60 years ago. Grech’s professional calling was to the practice of ...
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Thousands of faithful celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem
Thousands of pilgrims and tourists from around the world together with local Christians gathered in the biblical town of Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas Eve in the traditional birthplace of Jesus, with spirits lifted by a slowdown in recent violence and cool, clear weather.Security was tight in Bethlehem after recent deadly ...
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Business: Let's leverage on our Middle East connection
This region does not feature much in our day to day conversations. In our curriculum, Mesopotamia, the cuneiform and the Pyramids of Egypt are mentioned. There could be more pyramids in Sudan than Egypt, only that no one talks about them.
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[VIDEO] Kenyans react to Millie Odhiambo's remarks that Uhuru is 'a fake President'
Kenyans on social media have criticised remarks made by Mbita MP Millie Odhiambo calling President Uhuru Kenyatta a 'fake President who should go back to his Gatundu backyard." Millie on Tuesday asked Uhuru to stop harassing Kenyans by barring MPs from accessing parliament for the special sitting. "I dedicated this day to telling ...
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Raila: Uhuru has panicked over election
Opposition leader Raila Odinga yesterday said Jubilee wants election laws weakened because "President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto have sensed defeat and panicked." Raila told the Star in an interview said the opposition's decision to join forces in the National Super Alliance, NASA, against Jubilee has sent shock ...
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Less than 3 per cent of Syrian refugees resettled in rich countries: Oxfam
Source: Oxfam Country: Australia, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, WorldOxfam reviewed the resettlement policies of eight countries – Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the ...
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How Wily Ethiopia Outflanked Egypt and Sudan On the Dam
[Monitor] For many years Ethiopia wanted to build a big dam on the River Nile. The country, once a poster-boy for famine and poverty in the 1980s, had been quietly working on transforming its economy from one based on subsistence agriculture to one that manufactures things.
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Deputy Prime Minister Louis Grech receives handover from Slovak Presidency of the Council of the EU
The Deputy Prime Minister today received the 'bell' from his Slovak counterpart, Minister Miroslav Lajčák, which symbolises the transition of the Chairing of the General Affairs Council from Slovakia to Malta. During the discussion on the preparation for the European Council , the Deputy Prime Minister stressed the importance of ...
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Turkey condemns terror attack on Egyptian Coptic Church
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the Dec. 10 terror attack on a Coptic church in Egypt’s capital that killed at least 25 people.
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Algeria strongly condemns attack on Coptic church in Cairo
ALGIERS- Algeria has “strongly” condemned the bombing attack targeting Sunday morning the Coptic church in Cairo. “We strongly condemn the vile terrorist attack which targeted Sunday morning the Coptic church in Egypt’s capital Cairo, leaving several dead among the faithful,” said Sunday evening the spokesman of Foreign Affairs Ministry ...
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Strengthening tourist cooperation, focus of meeting between Nouri, Egytpian counterpart
CAIRO (Egypt)- The promotion of cooperation relations in the sector of tourism was the focus of a meeting, in Cairo (Egypt), between the minister of National Planning, Tourism and Craft Industry Abdelouahab Nouri and his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Yahia Rached. The meeting, to which took part the president of the…
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Italian foreign minister poised to get premier's job
Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni was summoned to the presidential palace on Sunday and appeared poised to receive a mandate to try to form a new government.President Sergio Mattarella said Saturday night he wants a new government to rapidly be in place, after Matteo Renzi resigned last week following a ...
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Egypt: Algeria strongly condemns terrorist attack in Giza
ALGIERS- Algeria has strongly condemned the terrorist attack which targeted Friday two police roadblocks in the city of Giza (Egypt), said Saturday the spokesman of Foreign Affairs Ministry Abdelaziz Benali Cherif. “It is with the strongest terms that we condemn the vile terrorist attack targeting Friday two police roadblocks ...
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UN General Assembly demands immediate end to hostilities in Syria
Source: UN General Assembly Country: Syrian Arab RepublicIn a resolution adopted today as speakers decried the Security Council’s continued impotence, the GA also demands unconditional humanitarian access and action by all warring parties to protect civilians.GA/11871 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PLENARY SEVENTY-FIRST SESSION, 58TH & 59TH MEETINGS (AM & PM) Exposing deep ...