Egypt says ready to receive newborns from Gaza's largest hospital

IANS | November 17, 2023 1:26 PM

Cairo, Nov 18 (IANS) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has instructed the country's medical sector to receive newborn babies from the Al-Shifa Hospital, the enclave's largest medical facility that suspended its operation on November 11 after it ran out of fuel.

Biden asks Xi to keep communication lines open

Yashwant Raj | November 16, 2023 3:14 AM

Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) US President Joe Biden told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday that they should keep their communications lines open and get to understand each other so as “to ensure that competition (between their countries) does not veer into conflict” while the Chinese President reiterated his opposition to describing the relationship as competition saying it “is not the prevailing trend of current times”.