Egypt on Thursday said it had sent medical and food aid to thousands of Palestinians stranded for over a month in increasingly dire conditions on the border with the Gaza Strip.

bmi, Heathrow’s second largest carrier, has today announced that it will launch a new daily service from Cairo to London Heathrow with effect from 28 October this year.

North Korea attracted a huge investment in its cement plant from a big Egyptian construction company, one of the largest private investments in the reclusive country amid reconciliatory moves between Pyongyang and Washington and progress towards the North’s denuclearization.