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Settlement Growth in the Nile Delta - Egypt

Handout Photomontage shows Settlement Growth in the Nile Delta. The United Nations’ World Urbanisation Prospects 2025 was published on 17 November 2025. Drawing on data from the Joint Research Centre’s Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL), developed under the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS), the report tracks changes in population distribution across more than 12,000 urban settlements. It highlights a global shift in settlement patterns, with the majority of the world’s population now living in urban areas. This image, created with GHSL data, focuses on the Nile Delta in Egypt, one of the world’s most densely populated regions. By comparing estimates of built-up surface at three points in time, it shows how the extent of urban development has changed between 1975 and 2025, along with projections for 2075. Using satellite data and national census inputs, GHSL provides a broad range of data on human settlements worldwide, including estimates of built-up surfaces per square kilometre and, at even

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Nicolas Sarkozy In Police Custody Over Campaign Financing

File photo - Nicolas Sarkozy, France's newly-elected President, with Claude Gueant beside, addresses his supporters at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, May 6, 2007. French voters elected reform-minded Nicolas Sarkozy as their new president on Sunday, giving him a comfortable winning margin, preliminary official results and projections from four polling agencies showed. With more than half of the vote counted, Sarkozy was scoring just over 53 percent to a little more than 46 percent for Socialist Segolene Royal. Polling agencies also had the conservative Sarkozy winning 53 percent of the vote compared to 47 for Royal amid massive turnout of 85 percent. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in police custody on Tuesday morning March 20, 2018, an official in the country’s judiciary said. He was to be questioned as part of an investigation into suspected irregularities over his election campaign financing, the same source added. The probe related to alleged Libyan funding for Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign, Le Monde new

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Bulgaria: Festival of Lights Turns Sofia Into Open-Air Gallery

Sofia's LUNAR Festival of Lights transformed the capital into an extraordinary open-air gallery from May 8 to 11. Over 20 artists from around the globe presented stunning 3D projection mapping and laser shows at 14 key locations, turning historic buildings, parks, and squares into an open-air gallery of light.

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Toyota releases fiscal 2024 earnings

TOKYO, Japan, May 8 Kyodo - Toyota Motor Corp. President Koji Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2025, after the company released fiscal 2024 earnings and earnings projections for fiscal 2025. (Kyodo)

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Toyota releases fiscal 2024 earnings

Toyota Motor Corp. President Koji Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2025, after the company released fiscal 2024 earnings and earnings projections for fiscal 2025.

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Toyota releases fiscal 2024 earnings

Toyota Motor Corp. President Koji Sato holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 8, 2025, after the company released fiscal 2024 earnings and earnings projections for fiscal 2025.

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