World
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International
8/9/2023 10:38:00 PM
Norwegian authorities said Wednesday thousands had been evacuated following massive floods and that they were considering blowing open a dam after the floodgates failed to open.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/8/2023 12:36:26 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Housing Assem El-Gazzar inspected the ongoing progress of the Julius Nyerere Hydroelectric Power Project (JNHPP) on the Rufiji River in Tanzania, which is being built by an Egyptian consortium, the Ministry of Housing announced on Monday.
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Sports
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Omni sports
8/6/2023 2:41:07 PM
Excessive pollution in Paris' Seine River forced organisers to cancel a pre-Olympics test swimming competition due to take place on Sunday, the sport's international federation said.
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Sports
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Omni sports
8/4/2023 5:37:09 PM
Heavy rains have set back plans to test Paris’ readiness for swimmers to race in the River Seine at next year’s Summer Olympics but Games organizers say the waterway will be better prepared in 2024.
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Sports
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Omni sports
7/17/2023 3:07:08 PM
Around 40 boats took part in a practice run of the hugely ambitious opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on the river Seine on Monday, almost exactly a year until the sporting extravaganza begins.
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World
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Region
7/14/2023 6:53:42 PM
With scorching temperatures and power cuts, Wissam Abed cools off from Baghdad's brutal summer by swimming in the Tigris river, but as Iraqi rivers dry up, so does the age-old pastime.
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World
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International
6/22/2023 10:03:58 PM
Greek authorities said they rescued 145 migrants found stranded Thursday on a small islet on the river that runs along the northeastern land border with Turkey.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/22/2023 2:47:47 PM
In war-torn Sudan, a Blue Nile river town has become a relative sanctuary from the fighting, but survivors living there endure overcrowding, widespread disease and creeping hunger.
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World
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Africa
6/14/2023 12:02:02 PM
More than 100 people have drowned in north central Nigeria after a boat carrying families returning from a wedding sank in a river, police and local authorities said.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/12/2023 9:01:26 PM
Ukraine on Monday said 41 people were still missing in the floods caused by a dam breach that it blamed on Russia, and which killed 10 people in the southern Kherson region.
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World
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International
6/11/2023 8:40:25 PM
Six people were dead and thirty five people missing in southern Ukraine on Sunday following a devastating flood prosecutors called the "worst environmental catastrophe since Chernobyl."
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/10/2023 4:09:05 PM
Ukraine’s military reported intense fighting with Russian forces on Saturday, while the country's nuclear energy agency said it put the last operating reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant into a “cold shutdown” for safety as Russia's war on Ukraine drags on through its 16th month.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/8/2023 10:25:55 AM
Flooding from the Kakhovka dam breach extends over 600 square kilometres on the Ukrainian-held right bank of the Dnipro River and the Russian-held left bank, the region's governor said on Thursday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/7/2023 6:58:01 PM
Authorities on Wednesday rushed supplies of drinking water to flooded areas from a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine as officials weighed where they might have to resettle thousands of residents who relied on the breached reservoir on the Dnieper River that forms part of the front line in the 15-month war.
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World
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International
6/7/2023 6:56:45 PM
Greek officials have launched a series of high-level contacts with the newly elected government in Turkey in an effort to counter a surge in attempted crossings by migrants over a river that divides the two countries.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/7/2023 12:59:05 PM
The fallout from the breach of a river dam along a frontline of Russia's war in Ukraine continued to wreak havoc with lives, livelihoods and the environment on Wednesday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/6/2023 9:02:41 PM
The collapse of a major dam in southern Ukraine sent global prices of wheat and corn higher early Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/24/2023 5:19:00 PM
Egypt has called on Ethiopia to stop the "tendentious invocation" of what it falsely describes as "colonial agreements" to evade both its legal obligations on the GERD as well as its moral duty not to harm downstream countries Egypt and Sudan.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/16/2023 7:30:40 PM
The Philadelphia 76ers have fired head coach Doc Rivers after their exit from the NBA playoffs at the hands of the Boston Celtics.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 5:13:09 PM
Paradoxically, the fruit of Oslo will perhaps be that the Palestinian struggle for justice will "return to the source," writes Norman G Finkelstein
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