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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »?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 …
Read More »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. …
Read More »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) – …
Read More »Dr Google doesn’t have all the answers. Here’s how to use the web wisely for medical help
Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo Doctors say Internet searches for medical information should be undertaken with caution. Here’s guidance on what to look out for when you do turn to Google. Dr Google is often on call for worried patients, but it may not give the most sound advice. Doctors say Internet …
Read More »Libya’s UN Mission’s panel finalizes elections’ issues
(Reuters) – The U.N. Mission in Libya said on Friday its advisory committee finished its consultations and finalized a set of options to address contentious issues in Libya’s current electoral framework, adding that the Mission will start talks with Libyan stakeholders based on these options. The Advisory Committee was formed by …
Read More »World food prices increase in April, UN’s FAO says
May 2 (Reuters) – Global food commodity prices increased in April, driven by higher cereal, meat and dairy product prices that outweighed falls in sugar and vegetable oils, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, opens new tab, which tracks monthly changes in …
Read More »China lifts sanctions imposed on five lawmakers in 2021, EU Parliament says
Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo China’s decision to remove the sanctions comes as a rapprochement is under way between the EU and China, since US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Beijing in early April. China has lifted sanctions it imposed on five European Union lawmakers in 2021, the EU parliament said …
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