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CAIRO, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) The Egyptian government on Thursday decided to postpone the first-term exams in all schools including universities until after the mid-year vacation over concerns of a second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. The new measures have been taken to protect the health and safety of all educational workers including students, teachers and other staff, the government said in a statement. The mid-year vacation is scheduled to start from Jan. 16 and run until Feb. 20, according to an instruction by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The classes should continue remotely from home during the coming two weeks starting Jan. 2, and the exams of the grade 10 and 11 of high school would go online, the presidential instruction said.
With change rippling through the Middle East, where do the Palestinians stand?
With change rippling through the Middle East, where do the Palestinians stand?
According to a survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, two-thirds of respondents are demanding the resignation of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, with talk of possible successors just waiting for him to leave.
(December 30, 2020 / JNS) The winds of diplomatic change in the Middle East are blowing strongly, but which way will they move the Palestinian Authority? P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas is not getting any younger, longtime adviser Hanan Ashrawi tendered her resignation earlier this month calling for the “renewal and reinvigoration” of the P.A.’s political leadership, and last month chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat died as a result of complications due to the coronavirus.
Egypt intensifies peace efforts with Libyan warring parties to end conflict
The recent visit of a high-level Egyptian security delegation to Libya s capital Tripoli reflects Cairo s openness to all Libyan parties with the goal of reaching a solution to the Libyan conflict, Egyptian experts said.
On Sunday, a high-level Egyptian delegation, headed by Undersecretary of Egypt s Intelligence Service, Ayman Badie, visited Tripoli for talks with senior officials of the UN-backed Libyan government.
The two sides discussed means of cooperation between the two countries and ways possible to restore normal diplomatic ties which were severed in 2014 when the Libyan conflict escalated, splitting power between two rivals with warring forces.