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Simion’s Romanian presidential election win sets stage for tough runoff battle

Muhamad Yehia ..Cairo AUR party leader George Simion is ahead in Romania’s presidential election, with 40% of votes in his favour, according to preliminary results. Meanwhile, two pro-West candidates are embattled for second place to enter the run-off. Nationalist candidate George Simion won the first round of Romania’s presidential election …

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Brazilian police arrest 2 people over alleged plot targeting Lady Gaga concert

Muhamad Yehia .. Cairo Police in Brazil said on Sunday that two individuals have been arrested in connection with an alleged plan to set off explosives at a free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro. More than two million Lady Gaga fans rocked up at the Copacabana Beach in …

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World’s oldest person dies aged 116 – British woman now holds record

Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest person in the world, died on Wednesday 30 April in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the age of 116 years and 326 days. Ethel Caterham from the United Kingdom is now the oldest person in the world. Inah Canabarro Lucas, a Brazilian …

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‘Aldeas – A New Story’: Martin Scorsese producing new documentary made with Pope Francis

Muhamad Yehia.. cairo Martin Scorsese is a producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff’s work with cinema in the global educational movement he founded before his death. Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese is producing a documentary about the late Pope Francis, featuring his last on-camera interview. The …

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A portrait of solidarity: Raúl Belinchón’s stunning images of mud-covered volunteers in Spain

Muhamad Yehia .. Cairo After fatal floods swept through Spain in 2024, photographer Raúl Belinchón captured powerful portraits of mud-soaked volunteers, a series that later won acclaim at the Sony World Photography Awards. When torrential rains swept across eastern Spain in 2024, they unleashed one of the most catastrophic floods …

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Trump ousts Biden-era Holocaust Council members including Doug Emhoff

Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo Emhoff has condemned the move by Trump as a dangerous politicisation of Holocaust remembrance. President Donald Trump has dismissed many of former President Joe Biden’s nominees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council – among them Doug Emhoff, the Jewish husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris and …

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Almost 500 staff protest against UN budget cuts as US scales back humanitarian funds

Muhamad Yehia .. Cairo The Geneva rally comes two days after several UN aid agencies said they would have to slash jobs because of funding cuts, warning the reductions will severely affect aid programmes worldwide. Nearly 500 United Nations staff got together at a Labour Day rally in Geneva to …

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?Fact-check: Is the US blocking German plans to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine

Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo As German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz hints at a change in policy on the transfer of Taurus missiles to Kyiv, unfounded claims are circulating that the Trump administration could block the move. A raft of social media posts have surfaced on X, TikTok and Telegram claiming that the …

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Indonesians are flourishing. People in the UK, Germany, and Spain? Not so much, global survey finds

Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo The survey also found that across the globe, young people are not doing as well as expected. Wealth isn’t the only key to happiness and well-being, according to a new global survey that aimed to pinpoint exactly what it means to flourish in all parts of life. …

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Trump administration’s funding freeze for foreign medical research to hit European scientists

Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo In 2023, there were 4,800 NIH-funded projects with partners in Europe. The Trump administration has frozen funding for most collaborations between medical researchers in the United States and abroad, with ripple effects to come for thousands of Europe-based scientists. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) – …

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