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Cameras to replace peacekeepers at strategic Red Sea strait

Remote-controlled cameras will take over responsibility from U.S.-led peacekeepers for ensuring international shipping retains freedom of access to the Gulf of Aqaba, whose coastline is shared by Israel and three Arab nations, officials said.

Reuters

Egypt Seeks to Strengthen Naval Arsenal to Protect Maritime Borders, Secure Navigation

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met on Sunday with Peter Lürssen, owner and chairman of the German shipbuilding company, Lürssen, as part of Egypt’s plan to develop its maritime arsenal, raise its manufacturing capabilities, protect its maritime borders, and secure navigation and investments in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.…

Asharq Al-Awsat

What Do You Know About ‘Peacekeeping’ in Tiran?

US President Joe Biden’s Saturday announcement on reaching an agreement with Saudi officials regarding peacekeeping forces, which include US troops, exiting strategically located islands in the Red Sea has once again shed light on the presence of international forces in this vital and strategic region. It also stirred questions about…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Why does Saudi Arabia want Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir?

Peacekeepers will leave a strategic Red Sea island, boosting the prospect of contact between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Al Jazeera

Peacekeepers to leave strategic Red Sea island by year's end: White House

Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - A multinational peacekeeping force will leave a strategic Red Sea island by the end of the year, the White House said Friday, potentially boosting opportunities for future contact between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

AFP

Biden welcomed to Saudi Arabia by governor of Mecca region

U.S. President Joe Biden was welcomed on Friday on arrival in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah by the regional governor, at the start of a visit to the kingdom that is part of a Middle East tour, Saudi state television Al Ekhbariya reported.

Reuters

The Red Sea islands caught between Egypt, Saudi and Israel

Cairo (AFP) - As US President Joe Biden visits the Middle East this week, one issue on the table will be the status of two small Red Sea islands that are uninhabited but of key strategic value.

AFP

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Biden secures deal on Red Sea islands and Israeli use of Saudi airspace

The agreement brings Israel and Saudi Arabia closer to normalising relations

The Independent UK

Israel approves Red Sea islands deal, paving the way for Saudi normalization steps

The deal, which the U.S. has been quietly negotiating for months, would be a significant foreign policy achievement for Biden.

Axios

Herder-farmer conflict in the Sahel needs a new description: why 'eco-violence' fits

The Sahel – a 5,000km long strip of the African continent stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea – has become the most neglected and conflict-ridden part of the planet. Millions of people have been displaced in the region. Mass murders and property destruction occur almost daily.

The Conversation

Boy dies and dad fighting for life after food poisoning at Brit holiday hotspot

The six-year-old boy, who was on holiday with his dad Antonio Mirabile, 46, and pregnant mum Rosalia Manosperti, died after catching a nasty case of food poisoning in the popular beach resort of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt

Daily Mirror

Israel says Iranian warships have been patrolling the Red Sea

Israel's defense minister said on Tuesday that Iranian warships have been patrolling the Red Sea in recent months, and called it a threat to regional stability.

Reuters

Fatal shark attack victim’s final words to husband before ‘arm torn off’ snorkelling in Red Sea

Former Austrian councillor named as first victim as Romanian tourist killed in second attack just 650ft away

The Independent UK

Shark in Egypt’s Red Sea kills two tourists, an Austrian and a Romanian

Both the attacks took place within 600 metres of each other

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Jordan Dismisses Officials in Wake of Aqaba Port Incident

Jordan on Sunday dismissed senior officials at the country's main Red Sea port of Aqaba after finding gross negligence was behind the deaths of 13 people following a chlorine gas leak at a major berth. The cabinet took the decision to fire the director general of state-owned Aqaba Company for…

Daily Mirror

Lifeguards 'laughed at shark warnings from tourists minutes before fatal attack'

Yesterday two female holidaymakers in Egypt fell victim to horrific shark attacks in the Red Sea - with a clip of one mauling showing the moment an Austrian pensioner, 68, desperately tries to get back to shore after her limbs were torn off

Evening Standard

Two women killed in shark attacks off Egypt’s Red Sea coast only hours apart

Egyptian authorities have closed off a stretch of the country’s Red Sea coastline around the resort town of Hurghada

Daily Record

Second woman killed by shark as swimmers are attacked by savage beast at Red Sea beach resort

A woman was killed in the sea around the same time another woman had her leg and arm bitten off just 650ft away.

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2nd Woman Killed in Shark Attack in Egypt's Red Sea

Two women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt's Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. Two sources told Reuters that the body of a Romanian tourist in her late forties was discovered hours after an attack that left a 68-year-old…

Daily Mirror

Last words of tourist killed in horror shark attack on final day of holiday revealed

The 68-year-old Austrian woman died in an ambulance from "shock" after "losing an arm and leg" in the horror shark attack at a popular Egyptian resort on Friday

Reuters

Jordan port workers suspend work to protest deaths in chlorine gas leak

Workers at Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba began a work stoppage on Sunday to protest poor safety precautions following the deaths of thirteen people in a chlorine gas leak accident at a major berth, unionists said.

Reuters

Second woman killed in shark attack in Egypt's Red Sea

Two women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt's Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said on Sunday.

Daily Record

Woman dies after shark rips off leg and arm in horrifying attack at beach resort

The woman died of shock as doctors desperately tried to save her following the terrifying ordeal at a resort on the Red Sea in Egypt.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Red Sea Development Company Adopts Green Strategy to Support Tourism

As part of its commitment to developing a comprehensive sustainable landscape strategy to embrace the pristine environmental components and enhance biodiversity in the Red Sea region, the Red Sea Development Company - a subsidiary of the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) - is seeking to rely on local and regional…

Daily Mirror

Tourist dies after losing arm and leg in horrific shark attack at popular resort

The woman, 68, later died in an ambulance from “shock” after the Red Sea horror. Video footage shows her desperately swimming back to shore after “losing an arm and leg” in front of horrified families in Egypt

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