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Sharm el Sheikh and the Strait of Tiran in the 1840 Kiepert map of the Sinai Peninsula. The town of Shurm is shown just north of two bays: Sharm El Sheikh and Sharm El Miya (Arabic: شرم المية). This area forms the southern tip of the modern city. Sharm El Sheikh is located on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, at the southern tip of the Sinai ...
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP27, [1] was the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 6 November until 20 November 2022 [2] in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
It was the first time since 2009 (Sharm El Sheikh) that the NAM summit was organized in Africa and first time since 1998 it was organized in Sub-Saharan Africa. The hosting of the event coincided with the hosting of the Group of 77 summit later that year, marking the first instance where both summits were organized by the same country. [2]
On 31 October 2015, Metrojet Flight 9268, an Airbus A321-231 registered as EI-ETJ operated by Russian airline company Kogalymavia and branded as Metrojet, crashed in the Hasana area of central Sinai, Egypt while en route from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to St. Petersburg, Russia. There were 224 people on board (217 passengers and 7 crew).
As part of MSC’s new Middle East itineraries for winter 2023, MSC Orchestra departs Safaga, Luxor for a seven-night voyage to new port stops including Jeddah, Agaba and Sharm el-Sheikh ...
Flash Airlines Flight 604 was a charter flight from Sharm El Sheikh International Airport in Egypt to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France, with a stop-over at Cairo International Airport, provided by Egyptian private charter company Flash Airlines.
In April 2016, on a rare visit to Egypt, King Salman of Saudi Arabia announced with Egypt's President El-Sisi an agreement to build a bridge between the two countries. [9] The announcement followed Egypt and Saudi Arabia signing an agreement on maritime border demarcation and marking the islands of Tiran and Sanafir within Saudi regional waters ...
Control tower at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport. The airport was opened on 14 May 1968 as an Israeli Air Force base. [citation needed] After the signing of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979 and subsequent Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, it was reopened as a civilian airport.