Egypt has the right to demand the repatriation of a stone sculpture of King Tutankhamun before it goes up for auction at Christie’s in London next month, according to the country’s former antiquities chief. Zahi Hawass, a renowned Egyptian archaeologist, has spearheaded numerous campaigns to repatriate Egyptian artifacts, and alleges the statue was stolen. “It seems that this sculpture was looted from [Luxor’s] Karnak Temple. ...

It is often said that accountability is a key tenet of good governance. This is something we clearly lack in Lebanon. Too often, government institutions fail to meet the needs of citizens or to properly allocate resources in a transparent way that benefits them. This is a country with so much potential and yet so little effort is made to ...

Conditions in Lebanon’s private sector economy deteriorated in May as company output dropped amid ever-slowing national growth, according to a survey. The Blom Lebanon Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) from Blominvest Bank, Lebanon’s largest lender, with research firm IHS Markit, dipped to 46.3 in May, down from 46.7 in April. The latest reading pointed to a continued decline in operating conditions ...

The Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Bou Saab inspected on Saturday the military units in Tripoli city and other northern towns including the crossings with Syria, surveying the army needs to carry out missions. Bou Saab met with Mufti of Tripoli and the North, Sheikh Malik Al Shaar, stressing that terrorism has “no religion or sect” and that people around the ...

Russia’s economy remains in the doldrums – in the first quarter of 2019 it grew by just half a percent year on year. And now, to address this, the government is tripling spending on digitising more areas of the economy. At the annual International Economic Forum in St Petersburg Euronews asked the CEO of IBS, one of Russia’s leading IT ...

The reconstruction of infrastructure damaged by natural disasters since 2016 has cost the government $500m without crippling the economy. While delivering the budget announcement in Parliament on Friday, Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says this was possible because of a healthy economy under the Bainimarama Government. “The scale of the rebuilding effort was only possible because of the strength of ...

odie Cunningham is rather busy. As well as playing full-back for St Helens and England, the 27-year-old is an ambassador for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup in England and a Super League pundit on Sky. You’ve made a great impression as a pundit. What’s it been like? “I’m really enjoying it. I was nervous at first. They never had female players ...

The playoffs are still a few weeks away, but I will get in early with this request to Sanzaar. If the Super Rugby final is played in New Zealand, don’t allow politicians to lumber up to the podium. Let’s not pretend the fans care about them or want them there. Minister for Sport and Recreation Grant Robertson was on the ...

Sloane Stephens will play one match with the New York Empire this summer, The Post has learned. Stephens, the 2017 US Open winner who’s currently ranked No. 7 in the world, will play for the Empire in it’s July 18 home match against the Orange County Breakers at Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning in the Bronx. That match ...

PARIS — Ash Barty was only 15 when she won the junior title at Wimbledon, a prodigy with a slice-and-dice game style tailor-made for grass. Three years later, burned out and struggling with depression, she quit tennis and took up professional cricket instead. Had she not taken the 18-month break, Barty says, she would have given up tennis entirely. And yet, another ...