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Palestinians carry their belongings as they arrive in Gaza City to flee neighbourhoods to the east of the city following Israeli evacuation orders. Photo: AFP

Israel takes control of key Gaza corridor, to expand offensive

Ceasefire negotiations continue as Hamas and Egyptian mediators meet in Cairo

April 12, 2025| AFP
Egyptologist Lucia Gahlin

Lecture to shed light on Tutankhamun

Discovery of his tomb is considered the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century

April 1, 2025| Press Release
A Sindbad submarine, like the one in this file photo, sank off the coast of Hurghada killing at least six people and injuring nine. Photo: Sindbad Submarines

Six Russians dead in sinking of Egypt tourist submarine

39 tourists were rescued

March 27, 2025| AFP
A child plays as men walk past graffiti representing the reconstruction of Gaza, on a section of Israel's separation wall.,

Hamas praises Jordan, Egypt for 'rejecting displacement' in Gaza 

Trump wants to take over Gaza and move Palestinians to Egypt, Jordan

February 12, 2025| AFP
Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty. AFP.

Egypt's FM heads to Washington for talks with US officials

Egypt to host emergency Arab summit on February 27

February 9, 2025| AFP
People walk amid collapsed buildings along Saftawi street in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 5, 2025 during a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas. Photo: AFP

Hamas says Trump plan to take over Gaza will pour 'oil on the fire'

Mahmud Abbas reportedly travelled to Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II over the US' proposal

February 5, 2025| Times of Malta, AFP
Miriam Dalli (left) in conversation with the Egyptian minister. Photo: DOI

Miriam Dalli meets Egyptian energy minister

Dalli and Mahmoud Esmat exchange ideas about renewable energy projects

January 25, 2025| Times of Malta
Divers swim off Egypt's Red Sea coast.

Italian tourist killed in Egypt Red Sea shark attack

Last month, at least four people died when a large wave hit and capsized a dive boat

December 29, 2024| AFP
Sisi, whose government has been involved in mediation efforts to end the Gaza war, proposed a "two-day ceasefire" during which "four hostages would be exchanged for some prisoners in Israeli jails. File photo: AFP

Sisi unveils plan for two-day Gaza truce, release of four hostages

At least 42,924 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive on Gaza

October 27, 2024| AFP
Guido Stilon. Photo: Magna Żmien

Cairo to mark 60 years since Malta’s independence

At the heart of Malta Culture Day is an exhibition of 22 photographs by Maltese amateur photographer Guido Stilon

September 14, 2024| Emma Borg
Popular local band Etnika

Maltese culture on show in Egypt to mark 60 years of independence

Cairo event to host exhibition, short film and a performance by Etnika

September 8, 2024| Press Release
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib (R) attends a press conference after meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty in Beirut. Photo: AFP

Egypt says Gaza truce 'key' to preventing regional war

Cross-border violence has killed at least 118 civilians

August 16, 2024| AFP
John Conti (standing far right) together with wife Georgette (sitting right) holding Alfred. Also in the picture are Charles Abela (left) and Helen (Georgette’s sister) holding John, and the girls’ father, George Choucri. Right: Alfred at nine months.

A family’s flight from Egypt 80 years ago

Alfred Conti Borda recounts family’s journey from British base in North Africa to Malta

June 26, 2024| Alfred Conti Borda
Rescuers work to pull a sunken minibus from a canal of the Nile River near Abu Ghaleb village in Egypt's Giza governorate on May 21, 2024. Photo: AFP

Nine child workers die in Egypt as bus plunges into the Nile

The bus driver was arrested after trying to flee the scene

May 21, 2024| AFP
Children attend class at a makeshift school in a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir El-Balah, in the central Gaza strip over the weekend. Photo: AFP

Hamas official says delegation to respond to Gaza truce plan in Egypt Monday

For several weeks now negotiations to end the war had hit an impasse

April 29, 2024| AFP
A Palestinian child plays on the ruins of a building destroyed by earlier Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on April 8, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. Photo: AFP

Hamas, Israel talk Gaza truce deal

Israel's offensive has killed at least 33,207 people in Gaza

April 8, 2024| AFP
Sanaa El-Nahhal before leaving for Gaza. Photo: Karl Andrew Micallef

Palestine aid from Malta stuck in Egypt

Palestinian-Maltese woman negotiating ever-increasing fees at port running out of money

March 18, 2024| Sarah Carabott
The MOU will allow exchanges between young volunteers in both countries as well as the twinning of volunteer organisations that work in the disability sector. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Malta lends a hand

An MOU signed between Malta and Egypt will strengthen support to persons with disabilities, young men and women, and will create opportunities for volunteer organisations

March 10, 2024| Julia Farrugia Portelli
A Palestinian man holds a child as he mourns the death of twin babies Naeem and Wissam Abu Anza, killed in an overnight Israeli air strike. Photo: AFP

Gaza truce talks set to resume in Cairo as heavy fighting rages

Several air strikes hit Rafah and Khan Yunis during the night

March 3, 2024| AFP
The team at TriStratus

Maltese startup TriStratus opens office in Cairo

Founded in 2021, TriStratus emerged as a visionary Microsoft startup

February 25, 2024| Times of Malta
Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (L) greets Hamas' political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Doha on October 30. AFP.

Hamas chief due in Egypt for Gaza ceasefire talks 

Israel willing to agree to another pause in exchange for hostages

December 20, 2023| AFP
A picture taken from Rafah shows a flare lighting the sky as smoke billows following Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis. Photo: AFP

Israeli forces push into southern Gaza

It is where hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled in search of shelter

December 10, 2023| AFP
Qassem Ali being interviewed in Gaza. Photo: Facebook

Only known Maltese national in Gaza is evacuated

Qassem Ali among small number allowed out of war zone

November 4, 2023| Times of Malta
Civilians leaving Gaza wait as dual national Palestinians and foreigners prepare to cross the Rafah border point with Egypt. Photo: AFP,

Egypt says to help evacuate 'about 7,000' Gaza foreign nationals

The Rafah border crossing opened on Wednesday to let people out of Gaza

November 2, 2023| AFP
Palestinian health ministry ambulances cross the gate to enter the Rafah border crossing. Photo: AFP

First foreigners, wounded allowed to flee devastated Gaza

Humanitarian situation in Gaza remains desperate

November 1, 2023| AFP
People sift through the rubble inside a house damaged in an Israeli bombardment in Rafah. Photo: AFP

Israel urges citizens to immediately leave Egypt, Jordan

The evacuation calls came after days of protests across the Middle East

October 21, 2023| AFP
A convoy of trucks carrying aid supplies for Gaza from Egypt waits on the main Ismailia desert road. Photo: AFP

Aid trucks wait at Egypt's border with war-torn Gaza after deal

150 trucks have been waiting at Rafah

October 19, 2023| AFP
Egyptian police cordon off the site where a a policeman killed two Israeli tourists and one Egyptian in Alexandria.

Two Israeli tourists, local guide shot dead by Egypt policeman

The policeman fired at random at an Israeli tour group visiting Alexandria

October 8, 2023| AFP
The niqab has been banned. Photo: Shutterstock

Egypt ban on face veil in schools sparks debate

The decision applies to both state and independent schools

September 12, 2023| AFP
Egyptian-born French singer Dalida. Photo: AFP

Watch: Dalida and Orlando, brother and sister forever (ARTE)

The singer died by suicide on May 3, 1987

August 28, 2023| ARTE