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Egypt
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Society
1/4/2022 12:13:00 PM
Thursday 6 January will be a paid day off for public sector workers on the occasion of the Coptic Orthodox Christmas, which falls on 7 January, according to a decree issued by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly.
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World
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International
1/3/2022 8:26:40 PM
Dutch schools will reopen next week as planned after a longer than usual Christmas holiday, the government announced Monday, despite rising infections fuelled by the Omicron variant.
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World
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International
1/2/2022 11:02:06 PM
Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first days of the new year.
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World
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International
1/2/2022 7:06:20 PM
The UK government has been making contingency plans in case hospitals, schools and other workplaces are hit by major staff shortages amid the country's record-breaking spike in coronavirus infections.
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Egypt
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Society
1/2/2022 5:46:00 PM
Like Orthodox churches around the world, Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on 7 January, according to the Julian Calendar.
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Egypt
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Society
12/31/2021 4:57:00 PM
You know it's that time of the year when you see all those lights hanging throughout Shubra's main commercial streets, on the buildings, and across shop windows. It's Christmas time.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
12/30/2021 9:25:38 PM
In celebration of Christmas, the ambassador of Egypt in Belgrade Amr Aljowaily held an event titled ‘Cultural Heritage of Egypt: Journey of the Holy Family, Churches and Monasteries’, which featured photos, booklets, and documentaries on the architecture of Egyptian churches and encouraged Serbian tourists to visit them.
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Egypt
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Society
12/30/2021 4:45:53 PM
Egypt's Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb greeted Thursday Pope Francis of the Vatican, head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, and Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I as well as all Christians around the world on the occasion of Christmas.
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Egypt
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Society
12/30/2021 10:58:46 AM
Egypt’s Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfik raised the national security alert to the highest level ahead of New Year and Christmas celebrations.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
12/29/2021 3:51:22 PM
In many parts of the world, it is not Christmas until people can have their fun playing in the snow!
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World
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International
12/28/2021 7:29:00 PM
The United States renewed calls Tuesday for an arms embargo on Myanmar's junta after a Christmas Eve massacre in which Save the Children said two of the group's staff were killed.
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World
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International
12/28/2021 5:04:07 PM
The humanitarian group Save the Children said Tuesday it has confirmed that two of its staff were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in eastern Myanmar on Christmas Eve in an attack it blamed on the country's military.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
12/27/2021 1:57:55 PM
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Heritage
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Walks
12/26/2021 7:32:00 PM
Own the City is a series documenting the social history of historic districts of Egypt. Share your memories and photographs of your favourite neighbourhood with us and we will add/update it to the story that runs for one month.
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World
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Region
12/26/2021 5:22:00 PM
The head of Iran's judiciary on Sunday granted Christian prisoners 10 days' liberty to spend the holidays with families, in a rare move towards the minority community.
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World
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International
12/26/2021 3:00:21 PM
More than 7,000 flights have been canceled worldwide over the Christmas weekend and thousands more delayed, a tracking website reported Sunday, as the highly infectious Omicron variant brings holiday hurt to millions.
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World
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Africa
12/25/2021 10:08:35 PM
A bomb exploded at a restaurant Saturday as patrons gathered on Christmas Day, killing at least seven people in an eastern Congolese town where Islamic extremists are known to be active.
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World
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Region
12/25/2021 2:41:52 PM
The biblical town of Bethlehem marked its second straight Christmas Eve under the shadow of the coronavirus -- with small crowds and gray, gloomy weather dampening celebrations Friday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
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World
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International
12/25/2021 12:31:09 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines, Asia's largest Roman Catholic nation, marked Christmas on Saturday without homes, adequate food and water, electricity and cellphone connections after a powerful typhoon left at least 375 people dead last week and devastated mostly central island provinces.
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World
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International
12/25/2021 10:18:46 AM
Pope Francis called for more solidarity with those living in poverty as he celebrated mass in Rome in front of a masked congregation of around 2,000 people, while billions around the world again marked Christmas under the shadow of the coronavirus.
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