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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/9/2022 6:09:02 PM
Ukrainian authorities say the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, has been knocked off the power grid. Emergency generators are now supplying backup power.
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World
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International
3/7/2022 5:26:16 PM
The UN Security Council will hold a closed doors, informal meeting Monday on North Korea, after Pyongyang's latest suspected missile test, diplomats said.
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World
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International
3/6/2022 9:33:20 PM
Firefighters and emergency workers battled two massive wildfires Sunday in an area of the Florida Panhandle that was still recovering from the destruction caused by a Category 5 hurricane more than three years ago.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
3/4/2022 4:23:54 PM
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting requested by Britain Friday at 11:30 am (1630 GMT) after Russian forces attacked Europe's largest nuclear plant in Ukraine, diplomatic sources said.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
3/1/2022 9:52:27 PM
The vote on the document took place on Tuesday at an emergency plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
3/1/2022 7:44:18 PM
NATO foreign ministers will hold emergency talks in Brussels on Friday over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the alliance said in a statement.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
2/27/2022 8:08:34 PM
The UN Security Council will hold another emergency meeting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, diplomats said Sunday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/27/2022 4:09:29 PM
Egypt has called for holding an emergency meeting of the Arab League to discuss current developments in Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday.
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World
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International
2/24/2022 3:41:13 PM
EU chief Charles Michel on Thursday urged Belarus to "not take part" in Russia's military assault on Ukraine, ahead of an emergency European Union summit to decide new sanctions on Moscow over its invasion.
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Sports
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World
2/24/2022 1:36:29 PM
UEFA are to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to "evaluate the situation" concerning Russia's invasion of Ukraine with the former set to host the Champions League final in Saint Petersburg in May.
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World
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Region
2/23/2022 3:27:35 PM
Ukraine's security council on Wednesday approved plans to declare a state of national emergency, in response to the growing threat of a Russian invasion.
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Egypt
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Society
2/19/2022 6:37:47 PM
Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly ordered raising the state of emergency to the maximum in a meeting on Saturday with a number of governors as bad weather and heavy rain continue to hit many areas nationwide.
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Egypt
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Health
2/16/2022 7:29:09 PM
Egypt will sell Merck’s COVID-19 drug Molnupiravir – which received emergency use authorisation by the country's drug regulator in January – at government-affiliated pharmacies, the acting Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar announced on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
2/15/2022 10:48:46 PM
The United States welcomed Ethiopia's lifting of its wartime state of emergency Tuesday but urged the government to promptly release people detained during the recent conflict with the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
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World
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Africa
2/15/2022 1:21:18 PM
Ethiopia's parliament on Tuesday lifted a state of emergency imposed last November when Tigrayan rebels threatened to advance on the capital, the foreign ministry said, easing restrictions earlier than expected.
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World
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International
2/14/2022 11:05:01 PM
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has decided to invoke emergency powers across all of Canada to quell the protests by demonstrators who have paralyzed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country's COVID-19 restrictions, a senior government official said Monday.
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World
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International
2/14/2022 8:06:00 PM
EU leaders could hold an emergency summit on the Ukraine crisis this week, on the sidelines of a meeting with their African counterparts, a senior EU official said Monday.
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World
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International
2/13/2022 3:25:37 PM
The small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration, says the interior minister of the EU member state located closest to the Middle East.
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World
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Region
2/6/2022 10:54:17 AM
Morocco was in shock Sunday after emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well in a tragic end to a painstaking five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and the world.
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World
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Africa
2/3/2022 9:52:35 PM
West African leaders on Thursday decided against toughening sanctions against Burkina Faso after it became the region's latest country to be hit by a coup, opting instead to demand a timetable for a swift return to civilian rule, a source at an emergency summit said.
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