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Egypt Confirms Availability of Coronavirus Medicines

People are seen, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt January 5, 2021. (Reuters)
People are seen, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt January 5, 2021. (Reuters)
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Egypt Confirms Availability of Coronavirus Medicines

People are seen, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt January 5, 2021. (Reuters)
People are seen, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt January 5, 2021. (Reuters)

The Egyptian government stressed on Monday the availability of medicines to treat the coronavirus at public hospitals throughout the country as it endures a second wave of the outbreak.

The strategic stock of these drugs is “reassuring and safe”, it said.

Egypt announced 669 more COVID-19 infections on Monday, taking the total count to some 162,00 since the pandemic started last year. It has confirmed around 127,000 recoveries and 9,012 deaths.

According to the cabinet's press office, there is continuous follow-up to ensure the availability of coronavirus medicines in hospitals. Any additional supplies are coordinated with the Egyptian Authority for Unified Procurement.

The needs of the local market for medical products to treat the virus have been secured through constant follow-up of the latest developments in the global drug market and analysis of local needs, it said in a statement.

It also confirmed coordination with various pharmaceutical companies operating in the local market, in order to ensure the storage of raw material and products required for the treatment.

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Zelensky Arrives in Damascus for Talks with Syrian President

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, September 2025 (Ukrainian President’s account)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, September 2025 (Ukrainian President’s account)
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Zelensky Arrives in Damascus for Talks with Syrian President

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, September 2025 (Ukrainian President’s account)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, September 2025 (Ukrainian President’s account)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Damascus together with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday, for talks with Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, a senior official familiar with the matter told AFP.

Zelensky's plane "landed in Damascus", said the official, adding that "cooperation between countries" and the "security situation in the region" were on the agenda.

Also, two Syrian ⁠sources told Reuters ‌on ‌Sunday that Zelenskiy has made his first visit to ‌Syria ‌to ​hold ‌a ⁠meeting with ​his Syrian counterpart.

The ​talks ‌were ‌linked to defense in light ‌of the regional war, one ⁠of ⁠the sources, a government adviser, said.

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Lebanese Army Says Soldier Killed in Israeli Attack in Southern Lebanon

A Lebanese army soldier inspects the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted their checkpoint in Aamriyeh, south of the coastal city of Tyre, on March 30, 2026. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)
A Lebanese army soldier inspects the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted their checkpoint in Aamriyeh, south of the coastal city of Tyre, on March 30, 2026. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)
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Lebanese Army Says Soldier Killed in Israeli Attack in Southern Lebanon

A Lebanese army soldier inspects the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted their checkpoint in Aamriyeh, south of the coastal city of Tyre, on March 30, 2026. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)
A Lebanese army soldier inspects the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted their checkpoint in Aamriyeh, south of the coastal city of Tyre, on March 30, 2026. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)

The Lebanese army said on Sunday that a soldier had been killed in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon.

Meanwhile, an Israeli strike hit south Beirut on Sunday, Lebanese state media reported, with a medical source telling AFP it made impact about 100 metres away from a public hospital.

The strike hit Beirut's Jnah neighborhood near Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the largest public medical facility in the country.

Israel's military earlier warned it was carrying out strikes on Beirut.

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Israeli Fire Kills Four Palestinians in Gaza, Medics Say

Palestinians inspect a vehicle targeted by an Israeli strike in Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on April 4, 2026. (AFP)
Palestinians inspect a vehicle targeted by an Israeli strike in Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on April 4, 2026. (AFP)
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Israeli Fire Kills Four Palestinians in Gaza, Medics Say

Palestinians inspect a vehicle targeted by an Israeli strike in Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on April 4, 2026. (AFP)
Palestinians inspect a vehicle targeted by an Israeli strike in Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on April 4, 2026. (AFP)

An Israeli airstrike ‌killed four Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, local health authorities said, in the latest violence to overshadow a fragile ceasefire amid a new push by mediators to bolster the agreement.

Medics said the airstrike targeted a group of people in Jaffa Street, near the Darraj neighborhood in Gaza City, killing four people and wounding others.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on ‌the incident.

Palestinian ‌group Hamas and Israel have ‌traded blame ⁠for violations of ⁠the ceasefire agreed last October, which halted two years of full-blown war.

The Gaza health ministry says Israeli fire has killed at least 700 people since the ceasefire began. Israel says four soldiers have been killed by gunmen in Gaza ⁠over the same period.

A Hamas delegation met ‌Egyptian, Qatari and ‌Turkish mediators in Cairo last week to give its initial ‌response to a disarmament proposal presented to the ‌group last month, two Egyptian sources and a Palestinian official said.

The group has told mediators it will not discuss giving up arms without guarantees that Israel ‌will fully quit Gaza as laid out in a disarmament plan from ⁠US President ⁠Donald Trump's "Board of Peace", three sources told Reuters on Thursday.

Hamas' disarmament is a sticking point in talks to implement Trump's plan for the Palestinian enclave and cement the ceasefire.

Hamas' October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.

Israel's ensuing two-year campaign killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to Gazan health authorities, and has spread famine, demolished most buildings, and displaced most of the territory's population, in many cases numerous times.