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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Hamas releases 24 hostages as Israel truce takes hold

      Group including 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and one Filipino freed, says Qatar

      A Red Cross vehicle, part of a convoy, at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt
    • Saturday, 4 November, 2023
      Middle Eastern economy
      Gaza conflict shakes Middle East economies

      Rising death toll and fears of wider war deter tourists and investors

    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Egypt allows first evacuee departures from Gaza

      Border opens for some critically sick and wounded Palestinians and selected foreign nationals

      Palestinians wait at the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt at Rafah on Wednesday
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Egypt-Hamas talks stalled on Gaza evacuation of foreign nationals

      Dispute over which side of border UN monitors should be deployed holds up deal to help hundreds leave

      Gazans with foreign passports wait at the Rafah Border Gate to cross into Egypt
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel’s Netanyahu lobbied EU to pressure Egypt into accepting Gaza refugees

      Leading European capitals dismissed the idea that has been repeatedly rejected by Cairo as unrealistic

      Medical aid at Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      LexOil & Gas industry
      Israeli gas: political tensions threaten the country’s growth ambitions Premium content

      Time is of the essence as US and Qatar rush to boost LNG supply capacity

      The production platform of the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Haifa, northern Israel
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU seeks Ukrainian grain for Egypt as part of Cairo support deal Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: the EU’s dirty ‘carbon bombs’ hiding under its green facade

      People sit on a public beach and swim in the Danube as boats pass by on the water on August 20 2023 in Izmail, Ukraine
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      EU accelerates Egypt aid package as it fears fresh wave of refugees

      Proposed agreement will not specifically link money to Cairo’s commitment to prevent any onward migration to Europe

      Palestinians with dual citizenship wait outside the Rafah border crossing with Egypt
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel plans to sever links with Gaza after three-phase war

      Official says ‘umbilical cord’ will be cut with worker crossings stopped

      António Guterres inspecting a shipment of aid
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      EU nations at odds with Middle East powers ahead of Cairo peace summit

      Leaders are divided on attending event given Arab push for declaration demanding ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war

      The Rafah crossing has been at the centre of frantic negotiations after Israel cut off supplies of electricity, food and fuel to Gaza
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Fear of Gaza exodus looms over Egypt

      Cairo ‘really angry’ over western pressure to open Rafah crossing to Palestinian refugees fleeing Israeli offensive

      Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Biden to visit Israel as push to open Gaza crossing falters

      Blinken announces US president’s trip after impasse over aid and passage out of enclave

      Palestinians with dual nationalities waiting at the Rafah border
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      ‘We have to get aid in, there’s no plan B’: UN warns on Gaza siege

      Consequences will be catastrophic unless Israel allows urgent delivery of relief, says organisation’s humanitarian chief

      A woman carrying a baby past UN vehicles
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Israel-Hamas war sends jitters through neighbours’ debt markets

      Borrowing costs for Jordan and Egypt rise as investors price in greater risk for owning their bonds

      Demonstrators wave the Palestinian flag during protests in the Jordanian capital of Amman
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      ‘The worst day’: Israeli warning triggers Palestinian exodus from north Gaza

      Egypt resists pressure to open humanitarian corridor as thousands displaced

      Palestinians with their belongings leave their homes in Gaza City following the Israeli army’s evacuation warning
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      US politics & policy
      US senator Menendez accused of conspiring to act as agent of Egypt

      Federal prosecutors level a new charge against former chair of powerful foreign relations committee

      Robert Menendez
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Egypt claims it warned Israel that Gaza could ‘explode’ before Hamas assault

      Israeli PM call reports of specific warnings in advance of deadly incursion ‘absolutely false’

      An Israeli solder looking at burnt cars following the Hamas attack on Saturday
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Gaza crisis threatens to spill over borders into Egypt

      Cairo fears that Israel wants to push its troubles dealing with Hamas-controlled Gaza on its Arab neighbour

      Palestinians survey a wrecked building following an Israeli air strike in Rafah
    • Sunday, 8 October, 2023
      Two Israeli tourists killed in Egypt shooting attack

      Egyptian policeman detained after shooting at port city of Alexandria, in which a tour guide was also killed

      Authorities cordon off the area where a policeman went on a shooting attack
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Egypt candidates claim intimidation is being used to stifle opposition vote

      Supporters of those aiming to challenge president say they are prevented from giving requisite endorsements

      Large banners of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hang from a building
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Eighteen Days in October — how Israel turned the tide

      An enthralling account with contemporary resonance examines how Israel regained the initiative in 1973’s Yom Kippur war

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Emerging markets
      Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Brics summit in Johannesburg
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Egypt announces $1.9bn sale of state assets

      First significant privatisations aimed at raising foreign currency revenue to shore up its pound

      An engineer watches as molten iron is poured into a container at Ezz Steel’s factory in Sadat City, Egypt
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Turkey and Egypt upgrade diplomatic ties as relations thaw

      Ambassadors appointed to each other’s capitals for first time in a decade after rupture over coup in Cairo

      Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, shaking hands at the football World Cup in Qatar last year
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Critics of Egypt’s regime given rare platform ahead of elections

      Opposition hopes ‘National Dialogue’ will prompt concessions but activists say it is aimed at polishing the state’s image

      Anti-government protesters in Cairo in 2019
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