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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

Samy Magdy

Brigadier Yahya Saree Qasim, the spokesman for Yemen's Houthis, speaks during a rally denouncing Israel and in solidarity with Palestinians in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on January 17, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)
February 11, 2025, 12:15 am
UN suspends aid operations in Houthi stronghold after 8 staffers detained
UN pauses humanitarian work in northern Saada province, citing unstable security situation; 19 million projected to need assistance in Yemen this year
By Samy Magdy
Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly speaks during the opening session of the Arab Economic Forum in Beirut, Lebanon, May 2, 2019. (Bilal Hussein/AP)
July 3, 2024, 2:49 pm
Egypt swears in a new cabinet as mounting economic challenges fuel public discontent
Finance, tourism, foreign and defense ministers among those changed in shuffle, though prime minister and president remain at their posts
By Samy Magdy
A man affected by the scorching heat is helped by another as Muslim pilgrims arrive to perform the symbolic 'stoning of the devil' ritual as part of the hajj pilgrimage in Mina, near Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca, on June 16, 2024. (Fadel Senna/AFP)
June 23, 2024, 1:43 pm
Over 1,000 pilgrims dead during hajj in Saudi, officials say
Pilgrimage took place under soaring temperatures, and unauthorized visitors without hotel rooms had nowhere to escape heat; no official comment from kingdom
By Samy Magdy
Egyptians walk past an exchange office in Cairo, Egypt, March 6, 2024 (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
March 6, 2024, 2:44 pm
Cash-strapped Egypt allows currency to fall against dollar, hikes interest rates
Cairo’s central bank takes measures intended to combat inflation as country sees foreign currency shortages, takes hit from Israel-Hamas and Ukraine wars
By Samy Magdy
US President Joe Biden, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, to discuss the the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, on October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/ Pool Photo via AP)
December 8, 2023, 2:53 pm
Israel and US at odds over conflicting visions for post-war Gaza
While Netanyahu insists the Palestinian Authority cannot rule the Strip after Hamas rule is destroyed, Washington sees no other option
By Josef Federman and Samy Magdy
Screen capture from video of a fire at the police headquarters in the Suez Canal province of Ismailia, October 2, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 2, 2023, 9:42 am
Fire erupts in a police headquarters in Egypt, injuring at least 38 people
Most of those hurt suffer breathing difficulties; cause of blaze, which devastates building, not immediately known
By Samy Magdy
People look for survivors in Derna, Libya, Sept.13, 2023 (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)
September 16, 2023, 2:49 pm
With over 10,000 still missing, Libya opens probe into devastating collapse of dams
Prosecutors to investigate maintenance fund allocations; over 11,300 confirmed dead; concern over spread of waterborne disease, shifting of explosive ordnance from recent conflicts
By Samy Magdy and YOUSEF MOURAD
A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Sept. 12., 2023. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns, the destruction appeared greatest in Derna city. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty)
September 13, 2023, 5:42 pm
‘Bodies everywhere’: Libya toll passes 5,100 as authorities struggle to get aid in
At least 9,000 remain missing after catastrophic floods, though that number could drop as communications are restored
By Samy Magdy and YOUSEF MURAD
A general view of the city of Derna is seen on September 12., 2023. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns, the destruction appeared greatest in Derna city. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty)
September 13, 2023, 7:40 am
At least 5,000 feared dead, many more missing in massive Libya floods
Rescuers have trouble reaching worst-hit Derna in the eastern part of the war-divided country, where heavy rains collapsed dams around the city, washing away entire neighborhoods
By Samy Magdy
Streets a flooded after storm Daniel in Marj, Libya, September 11, 2023. (Libya Almasar TV via AP)
September 11, 2023, 11:23 pm
Up to 2,000 feared dead in Libyan city inundated by storm
Spokesman for government in Libya’s east says 5,000-6,000 reported missing after flooding, attributes catastrophe to collapse of two dams
By Samy Magdy
File: The 'Safer' tanker is seen on June 12, 2023, off the coast of Yemen. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman, File)
July 25, 2023, 7:53 pm
UN starts siphoning oil from rusting tanker off Yemen threatening Red Sea
Move marks major step in preventing disastrous spill or explosion in key shipping lane after years of frantic warnings from governments and environmental groups
By Samy Magdy
Miliatry armoured vehicle on a street in the West Darfur state capital El Geneina, amid ongoing fighting between two generals in war-torn Sudan, June 16, 2023. (AFP)
July 11, 2023, 8:58 pm
Human Rights Watch demands ICC probe into alleged recent Darfur atrocities
Dozens of non-Arab tribesmen reportedly killed by Arab Sudanese militias as violence becomes ‘increasingly ethnic’
By Samy Magdy
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, shakes hands with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Cairo, Egypt, June 25, 2023. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)
June 25, 2023, 5:36 pm
Egypt’s president meets visiting Indian prime minister to strengthen ties
Narendra Modi becomes the first Indian prime minister to pay a state visit to Cairo in more than two decades as nations seek to ramp up bilateral trade
By Samy Magdy and ToI Staff
A tugboat pushes the Seavigour, after it suffered a mechanical malfunction in the Suez Canal, Egypt, June 4, 2023. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)
June 4, 2023, 9:11 pm
Oil tanker breaks down in Egypt’s Suez Canal, briefly disrupting traffic
Tugboats transport the Malta-flagged Seavigour to a two-lane part of the waterway, as crews work to repair it
By Samy Magdy
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, center background, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, second left, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, left, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, second right, attend a regional consultative meeting in Amman, Jordan, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
May 5, 2023, 3:21 pm
Arab ministers to hold emergency meeting over Syria’s potential return to Arab League
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Safadi believes there are enough votes for Damascus to return to body; talks will also focus on Sudan and ‘recent events’ in Israel, West Bank, Gaza
By Samy Magdy and Bassam Mroue
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