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EU Parliament chief tweets about Alexander the Great’s heritage
“I know my history very well. Alexander the Great was Greek and his ideas contributed to the birth of Europe,” he tweeted. Tajani had kicked up a storm last February saying, during a visit to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), that Alexander and Philip were very popular “ancestors” of the country’s Slavic population.…
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French Total preparing to drill off Cyprus for natural gas, says ministry source
Total, along with Italy’s ENI and Exxon Mobil, was awarded licenses for hydrocarbons exploration by Cyprus last month. The ministry source said Total plans to drill in block 11 of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone, which shares a boundary to the south with the giant Egyptian Zohr natural gas well, the largest ever field discovered in…
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Alexandria: locals adapt to floods as coastal waters inch closer
Gaber has managed the Latino cafe in Alexandria for six years, during which time the business has had to adapt to increasingly dramatic winter storms. With the storms come the floods, crashing waves engulfing large chunks of the many cafes nestled on the coastline. “There was another wall here before the flooding, but the steel…
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Hundreds of coffins to be restored in Egyptian conservation project
The conservation effort, funded by a US grant, will restore more than 600 wooden coffins that date to various eras of ancient Egypt and which are currently stored at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. “There has been no other project like this worldwide, with this number of coffins being documented or restored,” said head of…