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Can Egypt's New Administrative Capital defy the sceptics?
African Business
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July 4, 2025
Egypt’s New Administrative Capital (NAC), a project that started 10 years ago with the signing of a technical plan, is inching towards completion. Just over an hour’s drive separates Cairo from the new development, a span of time that takes...
Daily briefing: The first full ancient Egyptian human genome sequence
Nature
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You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 bc) produced many lasting artefacts — but...
Entire Egyptian family killed in horrific Al-Alamein Road crash
Egypt Independent
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July 4, 2025
A devastating car accident occurred on Thursday, on the Al-Alamein Road leading to the North Coast in Alexandria Governorate, northern Egypt. The collision, involving a private family car and another passenger vehicle, resulted in the death of an...
Opinion: Putting Egypt and Turkey On Notice
Boulder Jewish News - Colorado
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July 4, 2025
By Ron Jager Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, published back in 2011 his book entitled “Palestine.” In explicit detail, the leader of Iran laid out his vision of how to destroy the “Zionist entity” phase...
Foreign medical residents fill critical positions at US hospitals, but are running into...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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“I don’t want to give up,” said a permanent Canadian resident who matched to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Harrisburg but had her visa denied because she is a citizen of Afghanistan. She requested to remain anonymous for fear of...
Foreign medical residents fill critical positions, but run into visa issues
ABC News - New York
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July 4, 2025
Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training this week were delayed by the Trump administration's travel and visa restrictions. It's unclear exactly how many...
Foreign medical residents fill critical positions at US hospitals, but are running into visa issues
Associated Press
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July 4, 2025
Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training this week were delayed by the Trump administration’s travel and visa restrictions. It’s unclear exactly how many...
Aid groups warn of attacks on Sudan’s hospitals as disease outbreaks and atrocities mount
Associated Press
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July 3, 2025
CAIRO (AP) — Humanitarian organizations are sounding the alarm over attacks on healthcare facilities across Sudan, warning that they are happening amid what they describe as ongoing mass atrocities against civilians. Doctors without Borders — also...
World News | Aid Groups Warn of Attacks on Sudan's Hospitals as Disease Outbreaks, Atrocities Mount
Latestly
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July 3, 2025
Cairo, Jul 3 (AP) Humanitarian organisations are sounding the alarm over attacks on healthcare facilities across Sudan, warning that they are happening amid what they describe as ongoing mass atrocities against civilians. Doctors without Borders —...
Aid groups warn of attacks on Sudan's hospitals as disease outbreaks and atrocities mount
Yahoo News
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CAIRO (AP) — Humanitarian organizations are warning about attacks on health care facilities across Sudan, alleging they are happening as mass atrocities are being committed against civilians. Doctors without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans...
Egypt calls for ending Israeli aggression on Gaza, West Bank
Xinhua News Agency
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CAIRO, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Thursday called for an end to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, urging the international community to assume its responsibilities amid worsening...
Egypt Leverages Diplomacy to Strengthen Global Health Partnerships
Diplomacy & Beyond Plus
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July 3, 2025
Egypt is making a decisive shift in its foreign policy priorities by aligning its diplomatic strategy with national health objectives, a move aimed at enhancing international cooperation and drawing global investment into the country’s rapidly...
WHX Nairobi and WHX Labs Nairobi to find sustainable solutions for critical deficit of healthcare workers
South Africa Today
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July 3, 2025
Kenya’s rapidly growing population, projected to exceed 63 million by 2030, is contributing towards the demand for healthcare services. While the health workforce is growing at an annual rate of 3.4 per cent, the demand for health services is...
Living among the graves: Cairo’s City of the Dead faces an uncertain future
Geographical
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July 3, 2025
A woman sits outside the ruins of houses destroyed in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead. Image: Stuart Butler By Stuart Butler These politicians have no respect for the dead. They destroy mosques, schools and people’s homes. Their end will be...
Dioscorides: The Ancient Greek Father of Pharmacology and De Materia Medica
Greek Reporter
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July 3, 2025
Dioscorides is considered to be the father of pharmacology. Image: Painting of unknown artist depicting Heuresis (the personification of discovery) presenting Dioscorides with a mandrake root. Since this root was supposed to let out a deadly...
DOD Center Tracks Health, Illness in U.S. Forces
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 3, 2025
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES 11.17.2010 Courtesy Story A new Defense Department agency employs combined medical expertise to track health, illness and injury across the military services, the center director said. Army Col. (Dr.) Robert F. DeFraites...
At least 118 people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over past day — health ministry
TASS
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July 3, 2025
CAIRO, July 3. /TASS/. As many as 118 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported on Thursday. "Over the past 24 hours, 118 bodies and 581 injured people were taken to...
Travel: Discovering Egypt by river, from pharoahs to pyramids
Orange County Register - California
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July 3, 2025
Just inside the entrance of Cairo’s must-see Egyptian Museum is an unassuming display case off to the left. Competing for attention in a sea of head-turning antiquities — from towering statues to dozens of sarcophagi — this humble wood-framed...
Egypt Hikes Cigarette Prices as New VAT Law Takes Effect
Sada Elbalad
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July 3, 2025
Thu 03 Jul 2025 | 06:52 AM FILE - In this July 17, 2012 file photo, Marlboro cigarettes are displayed in Montpelier, Vt. Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc. is reporting their fourth quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013....
First genome sequenced from ancient Egypt reveals surprising ancestry, scientists say
The Rising Nepal
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By Ashley Strickland, July 3: In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first pyramids were...