By Abduljabbar Zeyad HODEIDAH, Yemen (Reuters) – Smiling and sitting down to bread and milk with her family, Yemeni teenager Saida Ahmed Baghili is barely recognizable a year on from the photo of her emaciated frame that came to symbolize the country’s humanitarian crisis. Baghili now weighs 36kg (80 lb), according to her father, more […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities have accused Reuters and the BBC of “inaccurate coverage” of clashes in the western desert between security forces and armed militants in which police officers and conscripts were killed on Friday. In a statement, Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) said Reuters had made “grave professional mistakes” by relying on unidentified security sources and […]
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RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns investment firm Kingdom Holding, said in an interview with CNBC on Monday that he was optimistic about his investment in Twitter. “It’s not going to be easy because they face some difficulties, but our entry point was very reasonable, so right now it’s holding on […]
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Ramat Gan, ISRAEL (Reuters) – Sierra Leone hopes to raise millions of dollars for development projects by auctioning a huge uncut diamond, believed to be one of the world’s largest, in New York in December. It will be the government’s second attempt to sell the 709-carat gem, known as the “Peace Diamond”, after it rejected […]
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By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – It was a source of national pride – technology and discipline besting a crippling lack of water. But four years of drought have overtaxed Israel’s unmatched array of desalination and wastewater treatment plants, choking its most fertile regions and catching the government off-guard. “No one imagined we would face […]
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Ramat Gan, ISRAEL (Reuters) – Sierra Leone hopes to raise millions of dollars for development projects by auctioning a huge uncut diamond, believed to be one of the world’s largest, in New York in December. It will be the government’s second attempt to sell the 709-carat gem, known as the “Peace Diamond”, after it rejected […]
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By Brian Homewood MILAN (Reuters) – Juventus midfielder Sami Khedira grabbed a hat-trick as the Serie A champions came from behind to thump Udinese 6-2 away on Sunday despite playing for more than an hour with 10 men. Big-spending AC Milan were also a man down before the half hour at home to lowly Genoa […]
Read More (Reuters) – Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei took one second off her own world record when she won the Valencia Half Marathon in a time of one hour 4.51 seconds on Sunday. The multiple world record-holder reached 15 kilometres in 45:59 which put her target in jeopardy — when she set the previous record of 1:04:52 in […]
Read More CAIRO (Reuters) – Average yields on Egypt’s three- and nine-month treasury bills fell at auction on Sunday, central bank data showed. Yields on the 91-day bills fell to 18.821 from 18.948 percent at the last sale while yields on the 266-day bills fell to 17.827 from 17.977 percent. (Reporting by Arwa Gaballa; editing by Jason […]
Read More CAIRO (Reuters) – Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to lift a ban on imports of Egyptian agricultural products, the Egyptian agriculture ministry said in a statement on Sunday. A number of Gulf countries have banned Egyptian agricultural imports over the past year on concerns over pesticide residue. (Reporting by Ehab Farouk; […]
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By Ulf Laessing TUNIS (Reuters) – Month-long U.N.-backed talks aimed at bridging differences between rival Libyan factions ended on Saturday with no discernable progress towards stabilising the country and paving the way for elections. A month ago U.N. envoy Ghassan Salame, the latest in a series of Libya envoys since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising ended […]
Read More By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Ahmed Tolba CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s security forces suffered one of their heaviest attacks after militants firing rockets and detonating explosives hit a police operation on Friday in the western desert, authorities and security sources said on Saturday. Three security sources said at least 52 police officers and conscripts had […]
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