Cairo’s East Nile monorail opened to passengers this month as a flagship of Egypt’s infrastructure ambitions.
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A Baloch separatist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a train carrying soldiers in Quetta, Pakistan.
Plumes of smoke from a suspected car bomb explosion outside an armament management centre in Damascus.
Republicans seek to allocate $1bn in public funds for Secret Service security upgrades linked to the plans.
Dangote’s planned East Africa refinery will model his recent mega project in Nigeria’s Lagos.
At least nine people were killed and some 30 injured in a blast at a market in the Pakistani town of Sarai Naurang.
A suspected car bombing followed by a firefight at a police checkpoint has killed more than a dozen people in Bannu.
Data from satellites shows how Sudan’s war devastated its farming heartland, triggering a unprecedented hunger crisis.
Kharkiv and Kherson targeted by missiles, while Russian capital suffers rare hit from drones.
The European Union warns that the deal on the link to Croatia could jeopardise Bosnia’s bid to join the bloc.
The head of the national rescue agency says efforts continue to remove people trapped in wreckage.
