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Usyk, Joshua Compete for World Heavyweight Boxing Title in Jeddah

Jeddah will host on Saturday "Rage on the Red Sea", the World Heavyweight Championship’s rematch between Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk and Britain’s Anthony Joshua at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah. The event, which includes 10 other fights, will start at 6 pm and the main fight will start at 1…

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Saudi Heritage Commission Reveals Antiquities in the Red Sea

Saudi Heritage Commission Reveals Antiquities in the Red Sea

The Saudi Heritage Commission announced it would begin surveying the area between Umluj and Ras Sheikh Humaid in the Red Sea to uncover submerged antiquities. During a press conference hosted by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), the Commission explained that the project, which is scheduled till Sept…

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Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk ready as boxing world descends on Jeddah

Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk ready as boxing world descends on Jeddah

The rematch on the Red Sea offers the Briton a chance at redemption with three world heavyweight titles on the line

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Joint Saudi, US Military Exercise Kicks off in Yanbu

Saudi Arabia and the United States kicked off on Saturday the joint “Outrageous Anger 22” exercise along the Red Sea coast in the western city of Yanbu. The drill brings together the Royal Saudi Armed Forces and US Marine Corps for training on bilateral operational and logistical plans, exchange of…

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Flights for West Bank Palestinians to Turkey to start at end of August

Palestinians from the West Bank will be able to fly on special flights from Ramon Airport, near the Red Sea resort city of Eilat, to destinations in Turkey, Israel's Airports Authority said on Tuesday.

Egypt Launches Initiative to Encourage Investment in Climate Action

The first regional forum organized by the Egyptian presidency for the upcoming UN climate change conference will kick off in Ethiopia on Tuesday. Egypt will host the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference 2022 at the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh in November. It will organize five major regional…

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Cairo Warns of Impact of Food, Energy Crises on Climate Change

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the president-designate of the upcoming UN climate change conference, has warned of the impact of challenges posed by the global food and energy crises on climate change. In remarks published by Bloomberg news agency on Sunday, Shoukry said his country will prevent all what could…

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 30 July 2022

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 30 July 2022

The crown prince of the world's biggest petrostate wants you to get excited about an experimental, zero-carbon city on the Red Sea.

Egypt Seeks to Reduce, Capture and Store Carbon

Egypt Seeks to Reduce, Capture and Store Carbon

Egyptian Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla and Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad met on Tuesday to discuss preparations for the COP27 Climate Summit, which will be held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh in November. They discussed organizing a number of events related to environmental sustainability, carbon reduction, capture…

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Egypt: The Netherlands Supports Our Efforts on Water Issues

Egypt: The Netherlands Supports Our Efforts on Water Issues

Egypt assessed its water situation and the most important challenges it faces from the effects of climate change at a meeting of the Egyptian-Dutch Consultative Council, the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources said in a statement on Monday. The meeting was held as part of the Egyptian government’s preparations to…

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Cameras to replace peacekeepers at strategic Red Sea strait

Cameras to replace peacekeepers at strategic Red Sea strait

Remote-controlled cameras will take over responsibility from U.S.-led peacekeepers for ensuring international shipping retains freedom of access to the Gulf of Aqaba, whose coastline is shared by Israel and three Arab nations, officials said.

Egypt Seeks to Strengthen Naval Arsenal to Protect Maritime Borders, Secure Navigation

Egypt Seeks to Strengthen Naval Arsenal to Protect Maritime Borders, Secure Navigation

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met on Sunday with Peter Lürssen, owner and chairman of the German shipbuilding company, Lürssen, as part of Egypt’s plan to develop its maritime arsenal, raise its manufacturing capabilities, protect its maritime borders, and secure navigation and investments in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.…

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What Do You Know About ‘Peacekeeping’ in Tiran?

What Do You Know About ‘Peacekeeping’ in Tiran?

US President Joe Biden’s Saturday announcement on reaching an agreement with Saudi officials regarding peacekeeping forces, which include US troops, exiting strategically located islands in the Red Sea has once again shed light on the presence of international forces in this vital and strategic region. It also stirred questions about…

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Why does Saudi Arabia want Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir?

Why does Saudi Arabia want Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir?

Peacekeepers will leave a strategic Red Sea island, boosting the prospect of contact between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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Biden welcomed to Saudi Arabia by governor of Mecca region

U.S. President Joe Biden was welcomed on Friday on arrival in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah by the regional governor, at the start of a visit to the kingdom that is part of a Middle East tour, Saudi state television Al Ekhbariya reported.

The Independent UK

Biden secures deal on Red Sea islands and Israeli use of Saudi airspace

The agreement brings Israel and Saudi Arabia closer to normalising relations

Israel approves Red Sea islands deal, paving the way for Saudi normalization steps

The deal, which the U.S. has been quietly negotiating for months, would be a significant foreign policy achievement for Biden.

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Herder-farmer conflict in the Sahel needs a new description: why 'eco-violence' fits

The Sahel – a 5,000km long strip of the African continent stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea – has become the most neglected and conflict-ridden part of the planet. Millions of people have been displaced in the region. Mass murders and property destruction occur almost daily.

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Boy dies and dad fighting for life after food poisoning at Brit holiday hotspot

The six-year-old boy, who was on holiday with his dad Antonio Mirabile, 46, and pregnant mum Rosalia Manosperti, died after catching a nasty case of food poisoning in the popular beach resort of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt

Israel says Iranian warships have been patrolling the Red Sea

Israel's defense minister said on Tuesday that Iranian warships have been patrolling the Red Sea in recent months, and called it a threat to regional stability.

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Fatal shark attack victim’s final words to husband before ‘arm torn off’ snorkelling in Red Sea

Former Austrian councillor named as first victim as Romanian tourist killed in second attack just 650ft away

The Independent UK

Shark in Egypt’s Red Sea kills two tourists, an Austrian and a Romanian

Both the attacks took place within 600 metres of each other

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Jordan Dismisses Officials in Wake of Aqaba Port Incident

Jordan on Sunday dismissed senior officials at the country's main Red Sea port of Aqaba after finding gross negligence was behind the deaths of 13 people following a chlorine gas leak at a major berth. The cabinet took the decision to fire the director general of state-owned Aqaba Company for…

Lifeguards 'laughed at shark warnings from tourists minutes before fatal attack'

Yesterday two female holidaymakers in Egypt fell victim to horrific shark attacks in the Red Sea - with a clip of one mauling showing the moment an Austrian pensioner, 68, desperately tries to get back to shore after her limbs were torn off

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Two women killed in shark attacks off Egypt’s Red Sea coast only hours apart

Egyptian authorities have closed off a stretch of the country’s Red Sea coastline around the resort town of Hurghada

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