War in Ukraine
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Military
8/20/2022 3:13:35 PM
Russian forces stepped up their battle to seize one of the dwindling numbers of cities in embattled eastern Ukraine not already under their control while continuing to fire on towns and villages in the country's north and south, Ukrainian officials said Saturday.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
8/20/2022 12:25:53 PM
The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war, the World Food Program chief has told The Associated Press.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/19/2022 8:12:30 PM
The US for the first time Friday said it will give Ukraine Scan Eagle surveillance drones, mine-resistant vehicles, anti-armor rounds and howitzer weapons to help Ukrainian forces regain territory and mount a counteroffensive against Russian invaders.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
8/19/2022 5:50:26 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron called for independent inspections at the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the Kremlin said in a statement Friday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/19/2022 3:41:51 PM
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Friday asked that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station not be cut off from Ukraine's grid, following Ukrainian reports that Moscow was planning to do so.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/19/2022 12:15:11 PM
The residents of two villages in Russia's Belgorod region on Ukraine's northeastern border were evacuated after a fire at a munitions depot near the village of Timonovo, the region's governor said Friday.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
8/18/2022 9:42:34 PM
People in Moscow who were disappointed when Starbucks closed its coffee shops after Russia sent troops into Ukraine may now feel a caffeine jolt of hope: A nearly identical operation is opening in the capital.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
8/18/2022 2:58:51 PM
Kyiv said Thursday that a 25th cargo ship carrying grain had departed Ukraine under a deal with Russia brokered by Turkey and the UN to unblock the country's blockaded ports.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
8/18/2022 2:39:04 PM
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday that Germany would temporarily slash the sales tax on gas to help consumers facing soaring bills amid a crunch in Russian energy supplies.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/18/2022 2:09:45 PM
Two Russian fighter jets are believed to have violated Finnish airspace on Thursday, Finland's defence ministry said, as the Nordic country seeks NATO membership following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
8/18/2022 1:24:46 PM
Turkey's leader and the UN chief met with in Ukraine with President Volodymr Zelenskyy on Thursday in a high-powered bid to ratchet down a war raging for nearly six months. But little immediate progress was reported.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/17/2022 11:06:46 PM
It is "urgent" the UN's atomic watchdog be allowed to inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine that is under Russian military control, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/17/2022 10:25:00 PM
Ukraine's president has condemned a Russian strike that the region's governor said killed at least six people and wounded 16 in Ukraine's Kharkiv on Wednesday as "despicable and cynical".
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
8/17/2022 12:54:00 PM
A UN-chartered vessel laden with grain set off from Ukraine for Africa on Tuesday following a deal to relieve a global food crisis, the ministry in charge of shipments said.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
8/17/2022 11:43:58 AM
German energy giant Uniper on Wednesday reported heavy first-half losses which it blamed on Russia squeezing gas deliveries in the wake of the Ukraine war.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
8/17/2022 9:57:25 AM
It was early one morning when life under Russian occupation became too much for Volodymyr Zhdanov: Rocket fire aimed at Ukrainian forces struck near his home in the city of Kherson, terrifying one of his two children.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/16/2022 11:05:42 PM
Ukraine's nuclear operator Energoatom on Tuesday reported what it called an "unprecedented" cyberattack on its website, but said its operations had not been disrupted.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
8/16/2022 8:46:54 PM
A Russian court on Tuesday found Soviet rock legend and Kremlin critic Yuri Shevchuk guilty of "discrediting" the Russian army after he condemned Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
8/16/2022 8:06:38 PM
The United Nations said Tuesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN chief Antonio Guterres would meet this week in Ukraine.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/16/2022 6:38:23 PM
Abdel-Moneim Said shares his thoughts on a new book of wide-ranging relevance
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