World
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International
10/17/2022 5:20:00 PM
France on Monday braced for nationwide transport strike action as the government and unions remained in deadlock over walkouts at oil depots that have sparked fuel shortages.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/5/2022 1:39:37 PM
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, who is the president-designate of the 27th UN Conference on Climate Change (COP27), said that developing countries receive only 6 percent of the total funding dispensed by the developed world to combat climate change.
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World
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International
9/28/2022 9:23:14 PM
The Nord Stream pipeline leaks pumping huge volumes of natural gas into the Baltic Sea could emit the equivalent of one third of Denmark's total annual greenhouse gas emissions, a Danish official warned Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
9/23/2022 5:07:23 PM
A total of four people have died from the highly contagious Ebola virus in Uganda, where the authorities declared an outbreak earlier this week, health officials said on Friday.
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Business
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Economy
9/17/2022 11:16:43 PM
The Sovereign Fund of Egypt (TSFE) implemented or signed binding deals to execute 10 projects worth EGP 25.5 billion in 2021, and is studying 44 projects for total investments worth EGP 140 billion over the coming five years, TSFE CEO Ayman Soliman said on Saturday.
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Books
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News
9/16/2022 7:09:04 PM
The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported Friday. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year's totals, which were the highest in decades.
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Egypt
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Health
9/9/2022 6:56:59 PM
Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population, said on Friday that the percentage of "unjustified" caesarean deliveries has exceeded 62 percent of total deliveries in Egypt, many of which could have been done naturally.
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Business
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Economy
9/5/2022 3:38:13 PM
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) sold 91-day-maturity treasury bills (T-bills) on Sunday at a total of EGP 61.8 billion, the highest value for short-term T-bills sales since the beginning of 2022, surpassing the CBE’s target.
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Egypt
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Health
9/4/2022 3:46:29 PM
A total of 202 patients were granted permission to receive medical treatment at the state's expense in August, and 109 surgeries were performed free of charge, the Egyptian cabinet's Higher Medical and Relief Committee said in a report on Sunday.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
9/3/2022 2:52:11 PM
EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said Saturday that the European Union was "well prepared" in the event of a total halt in Russian gas deliveries, thanks to storage capacity and energy-saving measures.
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World
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International
9/1/2022 9:07:36 PM
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has proposed legislation that would transfer the country's nominally civilian National Guard to total military authority, completing a dramatic shift for a politician who earlier in his career called for soldiers to return to the barracks.
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Egypt
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Health
8/30/2022 11:29:29 PM
The fertility rate per woman in Egypt declined in 2021 to 2.8, a 20 percent drop from the 3.5 births per woman figure in the last survey conducted in 2014, the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) said on Tuesday
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
8/26/2022 5:03:27 PM
French energy firm TotalEnergies said Friday it was divesting its stake in a Russian gas field that was reported this week to be providing fuel that ends up in Russian fighter jets.
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Egypt
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Society
8/23/2022 10:32:58 PM
The total number of marriages across Egypt increased to 880,041 contracts in 2021 compared to 876,015 in 2020, with an increase of 0.5 percent, said the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/6/2022 2:55:30 PM
A record of 89 ships carrying a total net tonnage of 5.2 million tons passed through Egypt's Suez Canal in both directions on Saturday, the highest daily traffic rate in the international waterway's history, stated Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Chairman Osama Rabie.
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Egypt
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Politics
8/3/2022 11:12:30 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered on Wednesday allocating an additional EGP 1 billion in government support to the National Alliance for Civil Development Work (NACDW), raising the total funding provided by the state to the alliance to EGP 10 billion.
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Business
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Economy
8/1/2022 3:07:54 PM
Egypt ranked third among Arab countries in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 2021 with $5.4 billion. The sum represents 16.4 percent of total FDI inflows to the region.
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Business
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Economy
7/28/2022 9:35:39 PM
ADNOC Distribution, the UAE’S largest fuel and retail distributor, signed on Thursday an agreement to acquire an over 50 percent stake in TotalEnergies Egypt in a deal worth $186 million, with an additional earn-out of up to $17.3 million.
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Egypt
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Health
7/28/2022 8:40:56 PM
Egypt recorded a daily average of 177 coronavirus cases over the past week (19-27 July), with 12 deaths total recorded over the same period, Acting Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar said on Thursday.
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Business
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Energy
7/25/2022 10:53:52 PM
Egypt is at the top of the Arab region’s countries in combined utility-scale solar and wind generation at 3.5 GW in total, the Egyptian Cabinet said on Monday, citing a June report by the US-based Global Energy Monitor (GEM).
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