Egyptian architects will rebuild the landmark al-Nuri Mosque in the northern Iraqi city.
Egyptian architects will rebuild the landmark al-Nuri Mosque in the northern Iraqi city.
President Hassan Rouhani says it is responding to Sunday's incident at the Natanz nuclear facility.
An attack on Iran's key nuclear site has just complicated efforts to save the frayed accord.
The Ever Given's insurers call Egypt's claim "extraordinarily large" and "largely unsupported".
A leading doctor describes it as the "only explanation" for cases falling as restrictions are eased.
The chemical weapons watchdog believes a helicopter dropped a cylinder on rebel-held Saraqeb.
They appear in public a week after Prince Hamzah was accused of plotting to destabilise the kingdom.
Egyptian architects will rebuild the landmark al-Nuri Mosque in the northern Iraqi city.
President Hassan Rouhani says it is responding to Sunday's incident at the Natanz nuclear facility.
An attack on Iran's key nuclear site has just complicated efforts to save the frayed accord.
The Ever Given's insurers call Egypt's claim "extraordinarily large" and "largely unsupported".
A leading doctor describes it as the "only explanation" for cases falling as restrictions are eased.
The chemical weapons watchdog believes a helicopter dropped a cylinder on rebel-held Saraqeb.
They appear in public a week after Prince Hamzah was accused of plotting to destabilise the kingdom.
President Hassan Rouhani says it is responding to Sunday's incident at the Natanz nuclear facility.
An attack on Iran's key nuclear site has just complicated efforts to save the frayed accord.
The Ever Given's insurers call Egypt's claim "extraordinarily large" and "largely unsupported".
Alan Johnston
Middle East editor, BBC World Service
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution on Libya that envisages the setting up of a team of ceasefire monitors.
Up to 60 observers would operate from within the existing UN mission in the country.
The resolution praised the progress that has recently been made in Libya, after years of conflict.
A UN-brokered process has installed a new government that's been tasked with uniting the country, and preparing for elections in December.
Alan Johnston
Middle East editor, BBC World Service
Tunisian coastguards say at least 20 African migrants died when their boat sank off the country's east coast.
Others are missing, but a search has been called off because of bad weather.
Only three survivors were rescued.
The vessel had set off from the Tunisian city of Sfax.
It's frequently used as a departure point by migrants trying to reach Europe.
Nearly 40 people drowned in a similar accident in the same waters last month.
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Human rights groups in Algeria have warned that more than 20 pro-democracy prisoners who are on hunger strike could die, and should be immediately released.
In a statement posted on social media, the eight organisations - including the Algerian League for Human Rights - said some of the 23 detainees were facing health complications, after refusing food for more than a week.
They have been charged with "damaging national unity" and holding an unarmed gathering, following their arrest on 7 April at a protest in the capital, Algiers, organised by the Hirak movement, which demands sweeping political change.
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Turkey says it has accepted an invitation to send a diplomatic delegation to Egypt, as efforts to improve strained relations between the two countries continue.
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the talks in Cairo next month would focus on normalising ties.
The relationship was ruptured eight years ago when Egypt's military overthrew Mohamed Morsi, the country's democratically elected Islamist president.
He had been close to the Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has called for an urgent summit of leaders of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to try and resolve the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
The talks are seen as last-ditch attempts to revive tripartite talks that collapsed last week in Kinshasa.
Ethiopia has vowed to go on with a second filling of the dam during the rainy season beginning June. But Egypt and Sudan want a binding agreement in place before the filling continues.
This comes as Egyptian parliamentarians vowed to "support to the hilt" President Abdul Fattah al Sisi, who has said all options are on the table in dealing with the water dispute.
MP Tarek Redwan told a human rights conference in Cairo that Ethiopia’s PM and parliament had twice refused invitations to Egypt to listen to the plight of millions of farmers who were fearful of the impact of the dam on downstream countries.
“Egyptian farmers are not opposed to the economic development of Ethiopia. The same water that feed their development is the same water that feed our farms and families. The River Nile should be a bind between us, not a source of dispute or war," he said.
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says the new Libyan government has agreed to discuss the highly controversial issue of maritime borders in the eastern Mediterranean.
Greece has bitterly opposed an agreement struck by the previous administration in Tripoli with Turkey in 2019.
The division of sovereignty over the seabed has potential consequences for oil exploration.
On Tuesday, the Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said after talks with the new Libyan administration that the two countries remained committed to the existing maritime accord.
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At least 20 people have been killed in a bus crash in the Egyptian province of Asyut, south of Cairo.
Local officials said the accident happened on a desert road when the bus hit a broken down lorry, and then burst into flames.
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The owners of the ship that ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week say it has not been given permission to leave the waterway.
The Ever Given has been moored in a lake on the canal since it was dislodged in a major operation last month.
The Egyptian authorities said recently the vessel would not be allowed to depart until an investigation was completed, and compensation paid.
The blockage of the waterway caused delays to huge numbers of ships, and insurance pay outs associated with the grounding are expected to run into hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Ethiopia has said that it has addressed "all of the concerns" Sudan had raised regarding its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) on the Nile river as talks regarding its operation collapsed.
"#Ethiopia has addressed all of the concerns of #Sudan on #Gerd as they're technical. Data exchange has been offered and dam safety is an issue that's well taken care of by Ethiopia for its own safety in the first place. Who profits by Sudan's rejection of the filling of Gerd?" the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted on Twitter.
The ministry questioned why Sudan should complain about the dam after "lauding" it for years.
Sudan and Egypt have increasingly been making similar statements concerning the dam that they see it as a threat to their share of the Nile river waters.
The ministry also accused Egypt of failing to recognise Ethiopia's "generosity and understanding."
Following the failure of the latest negotiations this month, Egyptian and Sudanese officials have heightened rhetoric against Ethiopia's intention to fill the dam next July.
Years of tripartite negotiations have failed to solve the dispute over the construction of the dam which Egypt and Sudan fear would reduce their share of the Nile waters.
