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Saturday, September 13, 2025
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Why Egypt could again play a key role in engineering a truce between Israel & Hamas

With the US circumspect about committing American political and diplomatic resources to the effort, the heavy lifting of engineering a ceasefire falls once again to Egypt.

Polish researchers discover a pregnant Egyptian mummy, in a first

Researchers have stated in the study this finding has 'opened up new possibilities' of research into pregnancy and maternal practices in ancient times.

Egypt parades 22 royal mummies through Cairo streets to new resting place

The mummified bodies of 18 pharaohs and four queens were paraded from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to a new museum in the Fustat neighbourhood.

Why Egypt didn’t profit from peace with Israel as the UAE will

Egypt and Israel had signed a treaty in 1979 and while the two governments developed robust security cooperation, there was little interest in building deep economic ties.

2,300-yr-old mummy in Jaipur’s Albert Hall Museum taken out of box to rescue it from rains

The Egyptian mummy was first brought to India in 1883 when it was gifted by Brughsch Bey, then curator at the Museum of Cairo, to Sawai Ishwar Singh, the ruler of Jaipur at the time, for an exhibition.

US stops sending sniffer dogs to Egypt and Jordan after multiple deaths

A US government report highlighted cases of severe negligence in the care of sniffer dogs in Jordan and Egypt.

Hong Kong to Haiti, Chile to Lebanon — what is common as world is up in arms against govts

A brief look at the mass protests in several countries over the last few months, the common thread and the transnational trends at play.

Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s ‘Arab Spring president’ who held out hope, but just for a year

Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically-elected president, was a member of Muslim Brotherhood that was formed in 1928.

Iran threatens to breach uranium stockpile limit set by 2015 nuclear deal

Egypt’s former President Mohamed Morsi dies of heart attack in court and British MP Boris Johnson’s anti-Scottish poem

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.