Egypt has sought to reinforce its argument that the Nile cannot be left to unilateral decisions upstream, such as Ethiopia's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project, pictured. AFP

Egypt sets out new case against Ethiopia in Nile dam dispute

Minister Hani Sewilam contrasts Cairo’s acute water scarcity with Addis Ababa’s far greater rainfall and farmland resources

MENA

El Sisi hosts CIA director in search of end to war

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Salah scores hat-trick as Trabzonspor thrash champions Galatasaray

Football

Saudi Arabia and Egypt stress Red Sea security as Crown Prince visits Cairo

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How ancient Egypt is inspiring a new generation of high jewellery

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InterviewVenice Golden Lion winner May el-Toukhy on Woman Unknown and her Egyptian roots

Film & TV

Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy wins Venice Golden Lion for Woman Unknown

Film & TV
A Sudanese citizen with a box of unexploded munitions found at a school in Khartoum. AFP

'Get away fast': Witness of Sudan chemical attack recalls people struggling to breathe

Dossier of documents, messages and photographs sheds light on SAF's secret chlorine weapons programme

MENA

Egypt sentences TV presenter and 11 others to death in drugs case

MENA

Egypt and China take united stance on Nile water, Palestine and Taiwan

MENA

Chinese military hardware on show in Egypt during President Xi's visit

MENA

CommentBrics and the SCO offer a different vision of global power

Comment

Ten Jordanians among 22 killed in bus crash in Egypt's south Sinai

MENA

BP starts gas production at Egypt's Fayoum-4 well two years ahead of schedule

MENA
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrive for a family photo before a session of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday. Reuters

CommentBrics and the SCO offer a different vision of global power

The emerging geopolitical order need not be a clash of blocs

Comment

Ten Jordanians among 22 killed in bus crash in Egypt's south Sinai

MENA

BP starts gas production at Egypt's Fayoum-4 well two years ahead of schedule

MENA

What fans can expect from Shakira at the Pyramids

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