Egypt restores mail service to Qatar despite diplomatic row

Egypt has restored postal services to Qatar last week after a three-year halt due to the Qatar diplomatic row, Reuters reported, quoting a UN statement. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are also expected to follow suit, along with the UAE, which brought back mail services to the Gulf state earlier this month. The move followed a UN Universal Postal Union meeting with postal representatives from the four countries late last month. It is still “not immediately clear why the service had been restored amid the wider, protracted row,” the newswire said.