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Presidents Lee Jae Myung and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi signed or revised 12 agreements in Seoul, building on a defense relationship centered on K9 howitzers and aiming to widen it into trade, energy and shipbuilding. SEOUL, South Korea and Egypt have upgraded their bilateral relations to a strategic partnership and formally launched negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), Seoul said on Thursday. The decisions followed summit talks in Seoul between South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The upgrade matters because it pairs a higher diplomatic status with a concrete trade negotiation, something a ceremonial upgrade does not always include. Speaking at a joint press conference on October 8, Lee said the two sides had i...

The number of refugee children out of school worldwide stood at 5.8 million in 2025, according to a new UNHCR report that warns shrinking aid budgets could shut millions more out of classrooms. The UN refugee agency says that is 44 per cent of the 13.1 million refugee children of school age. What the new UNHCR report says The annual report, titled Pathways to the Future: Education, Opportunity and Self-Reliance, was published on Friday 2 October. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih, who spent years as a refugee himself, said education gave him opportunities that displacement might have denied, and summed it up as "Education is protection." UNHCR is asking international partners and development agencies to safeguard education funding and to invest in the national school ...

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South Korea and Egypt Upgrade Ties to Strategic Partnership, Open Trade Agreement Talks

Aid Cuts Put Refugee Classrooms at Risk as 5.8 Million Children Remain Without School