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Egyptian economic development projects surpass the challenges
Egyptian Rawya Abdalla shows a phone picture of her relatives, who are among 17 Egyptians that went missing in Libya while trying to get to Europe, during an interview at the Dahmasha village in the Sharkia governorate, 60Km northeast of the capital, on September 23, 2020. - Thousands of desperate migrants bound for Europe have perished in the Mediterranean Sea. In one impoverished Egyptian town, families fear that 15 of their sons are among the dead. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt town fears worst for men lost en route to Europe
TOPSHOT - A picture taken on October 3, 2020 shows Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled Al-Anani (L), and Mustafa Waziri (R), Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, open a sarcophagus excavated by the Egyptian archaeological mission working at the Saqqara necropolis, 30 kms south of the capital Cairo, which resulted in the discovery of a deep burial well with more than 59 human coffins closed for more than 2,500 years. - They were unearthed south of Cairo in the sprawling burial ground of Saqqara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Their exteriors are covered in intricate designs in vibrant colours as well as hieroglyphic pictorials. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt unveils coffins buried 2,500 yrs ago
(FILES) This file photo released on September 1, 1967, shows King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud) (L), Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser (C), and Sudan's Prime Minister Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub, meeting during the summit of the Arab League in Khartoum, Sudan. - Fifty years since Gamal Abdel Nasser's death, the legacy of the charismatic Egyptian president who championed Arab unity lives on for many in the region beset by deep divisions. (Photo by - / AFP)

Egypt's Nasser still a polarising figure, 50 years on
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Witness arrests in rape case jolt Egypt's #MeToo
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Israel warns Hamas of war; Egypt seeks to ease tensions
Election campaign posters are picture as Egyptians go to vote on August 11, 2020 for a new senate in an upper house election seen unlikely to revive political life under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's rule.ele - The two-day vote for 200 of the Senate's 300 seats will be largely contested by candidates who back Sisi, who has quietened most opposition within and outside the legislature. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt holds low-key Senate elections
(FILES) In this combination of file pictures created on July 29, 2020 shows a woman watching videos of (L to R) Egyptian influencers Haneen Hossam and Mowada al-Adham, who were sentenced to two years in prison on charges of violation public morals, on the video-sharing app TikTok in Egypt's capital Cairo. - Social media has become a new and dangerous battleground for women's rights in Egypt after young TikTok influencers were jailed while a resurgent #MeToo movement decried male sexual violence. On July 27, a court sentenced five female social media influencers, Haneen Hossam, Mowada al-Adham and three others, to two years in jail each on charges of violating public morals over content posted to video-sharing app TikTok. (Photos by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt mulls law to protect identity of women amid 'MeToo movement'
This picture taken on July 22, 2020 shows a view of a cemetery undergoing demolition amidst ongoing roadworks at the historic City of the Dead necropolis of Egypt's capital Cairo. - Egyptian mother-of-three Menna was caught off guard when a bulldozer clearing space for a controversial highway flattened much of a mausoleum that doubled as her home in a Cairo 7th century Islamic necropolis. Her parents and grandparents had made their home among the graves of the City of the Dead, where burial chambers provide shelter for thousands like her who are unable to afford prohibitively high rents in the capital. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt highway uproots homes in City of Dead
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KUWAIT: Officials and citizens carry the body of Kuwaiti firefighter Abdullah Al-Farsi before he was laid to rest at Sulaibikhat Cemetery on Nov 23, 2024. — KUNA
Kuwait honors martyred fireman
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Bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' are displayed at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.--AFP photos
Human ancestor Lucy still has secrets 50 years after discovery
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A Kuwaiti folklore group performs at the ceremony.
Kuwait hosts Gulf Weeks ahead of 45th GCC summit
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People hold placards and shout slogans during a protest march against the sectarian attacks in Kurram district in Parachinar, the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Lahore on November 22, 2024. - AFP
Families fleeing after 32 killed in new sectarian clashes in Pakistan
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India's Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference against the backdrop of a picture of Gautam Adani, at his party headquarters in New Delhi on November 21, 2024. -AFP
Indian billionaire Adani down again, but not out