CAIRO: Eleven people were killed and 27 injured on Sunday when a bus collided with a heavy-duty truck on the Zafarana-Ras Ghareb Road, 40 kilometers north of Ras Ghareb city in the Red Sea Governorate, southeast of Egypt.

The deceased and injured were taken to Ras Gharib Central Hospital. Legal action is being initiated by the families of the victims.

Fifteen ambulances were dispatched to the scene of the accident when the governorate’s operations room received notification of the collision.

A security source said the dead and injured were all Egyptians.

NEW YORK CITY: Granting Palestine full state membership status at the UN would be a “practical” step that could preserve the two-state solution and help reinvigorate the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, according to Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN.

Mansour initiated consultations this year with members of the UN Security Council to push for a resolution to elevate Palestine from its current status as an observer state at the global organization and recognize it as a full member.

CAIRO: Flu-like symptoms have been spreading in Egyptian homes, especially among children resulting from a virus called Respiratory Syncytial Virus, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Health.

Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, a spokesperson for the ministry, told Arab News: “The preventive medicine sector recently swabbed a number of children, and the results of the survey showed that 73 percent of them were infected with the virus.”

He added: “People infected with RSV show symptoms of the common cold such as runny nose, headache, high fever, coughing, and severe fatigue.”

BEIRUT: A recent courtroom drama in which a judge offered to pay the bail amounts for two destitute brothers, who had been arrested in a financial dispute, has served to highlight the impact of Lebanon’s economic crisis on children.

The arrested duo, who collect and sell tin cans and scrap from streets and landfill for a living, had been detained for a month following a row.

Dany Zeeny, the investigating judge, helped the minors and ordered their release from an Akkar police station in the far north of Lebanon.

CAIRO: Several kings, presidents, leaders, senior officials and diplomats packed their bags following their participation in the COP27 summit in Sharm El-Sheikh and headed to Egypt’s archaeological sites, most notably the pyramids and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.

Saint Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai received many VIPs, notably Andri Anastasiades, Cypriot first lady.