Egypt Independent Senior US and Russian diplomats formally launched special negotiations to achieve strategic stability at the US diplomatic mission in Geneva on Monday. The talks are part of a flurry of European diplomatic activities this week which aim at defusing tension over the Russian military build-up on the border …
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Paul Mason finds the democratic world in the very disarray the authoritarian in the Kremlin has sought. Paul Mason* Do you want to go to war with Russia over Ukraine? You wouldn’t have to go yourself, but you would have to approve sending tens of thousands of young Europeans and …
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Egypt Today Arabiya.net reported on Monday, that a Qatari civil aircraft miraculously survived an Iranian missile mistakenly launched on Wednesday, 8 January. The Saudi website of Al-Arabiya TV channel explained that a missile could have mistakenly hit a Qatari passenger jet near Tehran’s Khomeini Airport. Last week, Iran admitted …
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Egypt Today Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, about the tragic downing of a Ukrainian passenger airliner in Iran. Rouhani apologized on behalf of his country, Russia Today reported on Saturday. Rouhani expressed his condolences to the Ukrainian people and the relatives of the victims, …
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Egypt Today Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said, “there were 82 Iranians and 63 Canadians on board the Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran” on Wednesday. The plane was heading to the Ukrainian capital Kiev. It crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran. Detailing the casualties …
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Ahram Online Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority has contained a fire on board Ukrainian plane carrying 189 passengers at Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport on Saturday evening. The blaze broke out around a tire of a Ukrainian SkyUp plane due to a leakage of hydraulic oil on the tires; a civil aviation …
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Ahram Online Egypt said it is pursuing, with “great concern”, the case of Egyptian students who were allegedly defrauded by a Ukrainian university. In an official statement, the Egyptian Emigration and Expatriates Affairs Minister Nabila Makram said that the students have filed complaints of “extensive fraud committed by education brokers …
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Egypt Independent Head of Alexandria Passenger Transportation Authority (APTA) Khalid Elewa stated on Wednesday that Alexandria would receive the first Wi-Fi tram from Ukraine in December. Elewa added that the governorate would receive another 14 trams following the trial operation of the first one, according to Youm7. The new …
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