The first time in three decades, Egypt and Iran have agreed to resume direct flights between their capitals.

埃及和伊朗同意重开两国之间的直达航班，这在三十年来还是首次。

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Egypt and Iran have agreed to resume direct flights between their capitals for the first time since 1979, Egypt's ministry of civil aviation said.

埃及民航部门表示，埃及和伊朗已经同意恢复首都直航，这在1979年以来尚属首次。

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The latest find would suggest that drinkers in China first began to develop a taste for beer around the same time as people in ancient Egypt and Iran - from where the barley may have come.

这份最新研究表明，中国的饮酒者们第一次品尝到啤酒的年代和古埃及、伊朗的人是差不多的(大麦从伊朗传入中国)。

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Or, as in the case of Egypt and Iran, they have simply ignored the fact that elections took place.

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And so Egypt and Iran have not had relations since 1979.

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Today the Islamic world boasts muscular companies and hectic stockmarkets (the market capitalisation of the region's three biggest countries, Turkey, Egypt and Iran, doubled between 2003 and 2008).

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