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CAIRO: Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said it has documented a previously unknown rock art site in South Sinai featuring a natural sandstone rock shelter that preserves paintings, carvings and inscriptions spanning thousands of years. The ministry said the

CAIRO: Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said it has documented a previously unknown rock art site in South Sinai featuring a natural sandstone rock shelter that preserves paintings, carvings and inscriptions spanning thousands of years. The ministry said the

MANILA: Philippine authorities said at least 52 people have died and 24 remain missing after the roll on roll off passenger ferry MV Trisha Kerstin 3 sank off Basilan in the country’s south, one of the deadliest maritime incidents this

TOKYO: Japan on Feb. 9 restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture, bringing the country back to production at the world’s largest nuclear plant by capacity after a late-January shutdown tied to a monitoring alarm.

TAIYUAN: Eight people were killed after an explosion hit a workshop at a biotechnology company in Shanyin County, in the city of Shuozhou in Shanxi province, local authorities said. The blast occurred in the early hours of Saturday, Feb. 7, triggering a search

ABU DHABI, Feb. 9, 2026: UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Monday upon his arrival in Abu Dhabi, marking the start of a fraternal visit between the two countries, according to

NEW DELHI: India’s updated baggage framework took effect on February 2, 2026, changing how returning travelers can bring personal goods into the country and revising long-standing limits on jewellery carried in baggage. Under the Baggage Rules, 2026, eligible passengers may bring gold, silver

MENA Newswire, NEW DELHI: India has advanced a plan to procure six next generation conventional submarines with Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems and India’s Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited under the Indian Navy’s Project 75(I), a program with cost estimates in public

MENA Newswire, ABU DHABI: UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, at Qasr Al Shati in Abu Dhabi on Monday, as the two sides discussed areas of cooperation and

MENA Newswire, GOMA: More than 200 people were killed after a landslide triggered the collapse of artisanal coltan mines at Rubaya in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, local authorities said. The incident happened on January