CAIRO: Egypt’s state news agency says 21 more people have died due to a scorching heat wave, raising this week’s death toll to more than 60.
The official MENA news agency said Wednesday that the latest deaths are from the previous day, mostly elderly people. It says 581 people are in hospital for heat exhaustion.
The Mideast has been hit by a heat wave since late July. Egyptian summers are usually hot, but temperatures this week soared to 46 degrees Celsius (114 degrees Fahrenheit) in the south.
At least 40 people had died on Sunday and Monday, including detainees and patients in a psychiatric hospital, according to officials. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Tuesday’s death toll includes a German national living in the southern city of Luxor who died from heatstroke.
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Death toll in Egypt’s scorching heat wave rises to over 60
Death toll in Egypt’s scorching heat wave rises to over 60
Syria says impossible to move forward in talks without clear binding timeline for Israeli withdrawal
Syria says impossible to move forward in talks without clear binding timeline for Israeli withdrawal
- Israel’s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the issue
A Syrian official said on Tuesday it would not be possible to move forward on “strategic files” in talks with Israel without a clear, binding timeline for Israeli troops to quit Syrian territory seized after Bashar Assad’s fall in December 2024.
The official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the latest round of US-brokered talks in Paris, held on Monday and Tuesday, concluded with a US initiative to suspend all Israeli military activities against Syria.
Israel’s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the issue.
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