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NRA Commissioner General Meets 16 Foreign Ambassadors Over Tax Exemptions and Customs Issues
Sierraloaded
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July 20, 2025
The Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority (NRA), Mrs. Jeneba J. Bangura, was engaged at a high-level diplomatic breakfast meeting held at the Lebanese Embassy in Freetown. Libanese Embassy, Spur, on July 17, 2025. The engagement...
Labor Minister estimates current number of unemployed at 430,000
Ammon News
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July 15, 2025
Ammon News - Minister of Labor Khaled Bakar said Tuesday that the Ministry has finalized the pilot version of the Labor Market Information System, set for launch by the end of the year, as part of broader efforts to modernize labor market...
Israeli army chief sees 'potential' for a hostage deal
PerthNow
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July 20, 2025
Israel's Chief of General Staff Eyal Zamir believes a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip war and an agreement to release hostages held by Hamas are increasingly possible. "Your achievements in the field as part of Operation Gideon's Chariots are...
Officials say 85 Gazans seeking aid are killed as Israel widens evacuation orders
ABC 4 - South Carolina
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — At least 85 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach food at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said, on the deadliest day yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war. There was...
Kazakhstan’s president commends Sisi’s wise, balanced stands
Egypt Independent
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July 15, 2025
CAIRO, July 13 (MENA) – Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev commended the wise and balanced positions of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, as well as Egypt’s important role in achieving stability and calm in the Middle East. Tokayev made...
Indonesian defence minister expresses Jakarta’s desire to boost defence ties with Pakistan
Dawn
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July 15, 2025
Indonesia’s Defence Minister Lt Gen (retired) Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin expressed his country’s desire to boost defence ties and explore possible collaboration in defence production as he met with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Tuesday....
Plans to relocate Gazans to a ‘humanitarian city’ look like a crime against humanity – international law expert
The Conversation
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July 10, 2025
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan to move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a what it calls a “humanitarian city” in Rafah on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt. Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir,...
AMEA Power completes 300 MWh battery storage project in Egypt
ESS News
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July 15, 2025
AMEA Power has successfully commissioned Egypt’s first-ever utility-scale BESS, a 300 MWh facility located in the Aswan Governorate, south of Cairo, along the NIle. The project was delivered ahead of its scheduled commercial operation date and...
Trump states US will work to resolve GERD dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia
Egypt Independent
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July 15, 2025
US President Donald Trump affirmed during his NATO meeting at the White House on Monday that the lives of Egypt’s people depend on the Nile River, and that his administration will work to resolve the dispute between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia over...
Etihad Airways Adds 7 New Routes From Growing Abu Dhabi International Airport
Simple Flying
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July 15, 2025
Etihad Airways has really awoken from its financial loss-induced slumber. The UAE airline has confirmed that seven routes will launch (or relaunch) from its Abu Dhabi International Airport hub: Almaty, Baku, Bucharest, Medina, Tashkent, Tbilisi,...
Egypt: Cairo International Airport welcomes 2.39mln passengers in June
Zawya
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Arab Finance: Cairo International Airport welcomed 2.390 million passengers on 17,919 flights during June 2025, according to an official statement. The total number of departing passengers amounted to 1.098 million over 8,934 flights during June....
Video: After four days of screening, how much has Superman earned in Egypt’s cinemas?
Egypt Independent
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July 15, 2025
“Superman” (2025), directed by James Gunn, has enjoyed a strong audience turnout in just four days of screening in Egyptian cinemas, grossing approximately LE4,222,000 across 28,400 tickets sold. Cast Rising star David Corenswet stars as Superman,...
Inside Egyptian Halls as plans to revive city treasure progress
GlasgowWorld
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July 15, 2025
The upper floors of the A-listed Union Street halls — by architect Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson — have been lying empty for decades. A potential buyer bid for the building but it was not accepted by the current owner, the council understands. Now,...
Crystal Martin to build large-scale textile, apparel factory in Egypt
Daily News Egypt
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July 14, 2025
Hong Kong–based Crystal Martin Group has announced plans to establish its own textile and apparel factory in Egypt under the freezone system, covering an area of 1.5 million square meters. The project is expected to create around 4,000 jobs,...
Park City’s Egyptian Theatre will not host Sundance screenings in final Utah festival
KPCW - Utah
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July 15, 2025
Executive Director Randy Barton confirmed to KPCW July 14 that there won’t be any Sundance screenings at the Egyptian Theatre come January. The iconic Main Street venue hosted the Sundance Film Festival when it moved to Park City in 1981, but is...
Locarno Jury: ‘Nickel Boys’ Producer Joslyn Barnes, ‘Our Time’ Filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and More to Join President Rithy Panh
Variety
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July 15, 2025
New York-based indie producer Joslyn Barnes (“Nickel Boys”), Mexican multi-hyphenate Carlos Reygadas (“Our Time”) and Swiss stage-and-screen actor Ursina Lardi (“The White Ribbon”) have been set as members of the upcoming Locarno Film Festival‘s...
Lifestyle BuzzFeed People Are Sharing The Conspiracy Theories They Actually Think Might Be Real, And Some Of These Are WILD
Yahoo News
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With everything going on in the world, it's honestly no wonder that people want to theorize about the ways that governments, celebrities, and, uh, aliens might be conspiring against the masses. DisneyThat being said, when we recently asked the...
Egypt’s banking sector liquidity rises to EGP 12.8trn in May 2025
Daily News Egypt
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July 12, 2025
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has reported that total liquidity in the country’s banking sector increased to EGP 12.821trn in May 2025, up from EGP 12.684trn in April—reflecting a monthly rise of around EGP 137bn. According to the CBE’s latest...
Stonehenge: Druids, Scientists and the Heritage Moneybox
Quadrant
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July 20, 2025
I am Serapis Bey, I am King Arthur and I am Arthur Pendragon We are the Guardians of Stonehenge, The Rock Clock, The Flower Festival of the Sixties, The Sundial of Eternity, The Happy Hippies … —New Age Live Serapis and other masters of the...
Why do ageing rates vary by country? Massive study says politics play a part
Nature
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A woman living in a town with heavy air pollution in South Africa, where people tend to age faster than in other countries. Air pollution is a risk factor for faster ageing.Credit: Per-Anders Pettersson/GettySocial inequality and weak democratic...