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The high level visit by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to Cairo this week, the first in 10 years, is definitely a good sign.
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The Beijing-brokered agreement, widely welcomed, for Saudi Arabia and Iran to resume diplomatic ties, which had been severed for more than seven years, is surprising in many ways.
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The announcement on Monday by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi that Iran would allow the agency more access and monitoring of its supposedly peaceful nuclear programme should be welcome news.
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On Sunday, 26 February, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi marked the launch of a new, ambitious programme of development maga-projects in Sinai now that security has been restored there.
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When Russia launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine, few military experts expected it would take longer than annexing Crimea in 2014: it had taken one month and six days.
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The Arab League high-level conference held this week under the title “Jerusalem: Resilience and Development” is not the first of its kind.
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The deadliest earthquake this century, which hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, had already claimed more than 5000 lives by the time Al-Ahram Weekly went to print. The figures are expected to continue rising, with every minute passing, meaning less hope of survivors among the thousands buried under the rubble.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Egypt, Palestine and Israel this week was mainly aimed at “de-escalating tensions” and to “restore calm” following one of the deadliest weeks in recent years, in which more a dozen Palestinians and seven Israelis were killed.
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President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi took part in intensive discussions with several key Arab leaders over the past week.
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On Tuesday, 13 December President Abdel- Fattah Al-Sisi joined 49 African leaders in Washington for the three-day US-Africa Leaders Summit, the first meeting of African heads of state and a US president in Washington since 2014.
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A 38-second video makes for a new reminder of what Israel’s racist occupation is about. It shows the cold-blooded execution on Friday of 22-year-old Palestinian Ammar Mefleh by an Israeli occupation soldier in the West Bank town of Hawara.
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The European Parliament’s new resolution regarding human rights in Egypt is a shock. Not only is it “politicised”, but it is also “arrogant” and “misleading”.
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Egypt – and the whole world – are entitled to celebrating the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) at Sharm El-Sheikh concluded with a hard-fought, historic deal to establish a Loss and Damage Fund to “save lives and livelihoods from climate change-related disasters” in poor countries that contribute little to global warming.
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Even before the official opening of the UN COP27 Climate Conference at Sharm El-Sheikh on 6 November, a major breakthrough had been achieved after lengthy negotiations by placing the thorny issue of “loss and damage” on the agenda of the most important world gathering on climate change for the first time.
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In a statement to mark World Food Day on 16 October, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres noted that this year it occurs at a challenging moment for global food security due to a list of man-made crises, topped by climate change and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Last week Turkey and the expired Tripoli-based government headed by Abdel-Hamid Dbeibah signed an agreement allowing Ankara energy exploration in the Mediterranean.
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All indications are that, far from winding down, the seven-month-old war in Ukraine is heading for greater escalation, at least in the short term, with the nightmarish scenario of nuclear weapons on the cards.
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