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News
1/14/2022 11:03:55 PM
Egypt will have only one thing in mind when they take on Guinea Bissau on Saturday: to win, and it better be in style.
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World
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Africa
12/31/2021 1:18:11 AM
Mali's military-dominated government on Thursday suggested that the poor Sahel country might take five years to return to democratic rule after holding a four-day "reform conference".
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World
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Africa
12/20/2021 6:48:50 PM
Nearly one in four people in Somalia are facing acute hunger as drought ravages the conflict-wracked country, following three seasons of poor rains and a fourth on the way, the United Nations warned Monday.
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World
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International
12/20/2021 11:47:53 AM
Islamic countries scrambled on Sunday to find ways to help Afghanistan avert an imminent economic collapse they say would have a ``horrendous'' global impact.
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World
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Africa
12/20/2021 9:19:34 AM
Nearly one in four people in Somalia are facing acute hunger as drought ravages the conflict-wracked country, following three seasons of poor rains and a fourth on the way, the United Nations warned Monday.
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World
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Region
12/19/2021 10:52:18 PM
Islamic countries scrambled on Sunday to find ways to help Afghanistan avert an imminent economic collapse they say would have a 'horrendous' global impact.
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Egypt
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Society
12/19/2021 5:31:57 PM
The Egyptian Ministry of Environment has advised the elderly, respiratory disease patients and children nationwide to stay indoors on Sunday and Monday due to poor air quality.
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Sports
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World
12/15/2021 9:34:17 AM
Diego Alonso has been hired as Uruguay's head coach to replace Oscar Tabarez, who was fired last month amid the national team's poor run in South American World Cup qualifying.
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Business
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Energy
12/12/2021 6:17:39 PM
Egypt is a key supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Turkish market, with seven cargoes shipped in the fourth quarter of 2021, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Global said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/7/2021 9:11:09 PM
As the Lebanese economy plummets, government plans to increase social assistance for poorer families are at best a stop-gap solution,
writes Rita Boulos Chahwan
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World
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International
12/3/2021 12:17:34 AM
The global initiative to share coronavirus vaccines fairly already scaled back its pledge to the world's poor once. Now, to meet even that limited promise, COVAX would have to deliver more than a million doses every hour until the end of the year in some of the world's most challenging places.
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Sports
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World
11/19/2021 11:26:15 PM
Iconic Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez was sacked on Friday after a record-breaking 15 years in the job, following a poor run of results that leaves the country's World Cup qualification hopes in the balance.
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Business
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Economy
11/13/2021 12:00:01 PM
The poorest countries will emerge from the COVID-19 crisis with their largest debt burdens in decades, while limited debt transparency in such countries will delay critical debt reconciliation and restructuring, the World Bank said a new report.
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World
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International
11/9/2021 5:38:33 PM
Large rifts remain as United Nations climate talks tick down to a Friday deadline. A lot of the divide comes down to money, which nations have it and which do not. So it's time for the diplomatic cavalry to ride in.
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World
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International
11/1/2021 11:16:31 AM
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.
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World
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International
10/30/2021 3:54:39 PM
Italy's Premier Mario Draghi opened a conference of the world's powerhouse economies with a sharp call to pick up the pace in getting vaccines to poor countries, calling the gaping global COVID-19 vaccine gap 'morally unacceptable'.
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World
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Region
10/30/2021 10:41:35 AM
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the U.K. will donate 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to developing countries as part of efforts to share vaccines with countries that sorely lack them.
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World
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International
10/27/2021 12:27:30 PM
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on jobs has been harder than previously expected, and a worrying two-speed recovery is emerging between richer and poorer nations, the UN's International Labour Organization warned Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
10/24/2021 3:36:48 PM
In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world's poorest people.
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Business
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Energy
10/19/2021 11:55:00 AM
Power shortages are turning out streetlights and shutting down factories in China. The poor in Brazil are choosing between paying for food or electricity. German corn and wheat farmers can't find fertilizer, made using natural gas. And fears are rising that Europe will have to ration electricity if it's a cold winter.
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