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12/16/2022 3:16:19 PM
A bomb hit an armored police van in southeastern Turkey on Friday, injuring nine people and reviving fears of new unrest in the mainly Kurdish region.
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12/15/2022 2:59:27 PM
Thousands of nurses walked off their jobs in England on Thursday, escalating a wave of industrial unrest in the U.K. this month as ambulance and postal workers, bus drivers and airport baggage handlers all stage strikes to demand better pay amid a cost-of-living crisis.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/13/2022 8:35:17 PM
For several years, turmoil and unrest in West African countries has resulted from security breakdowns, political vacuums, domestic conflicts and deteriorating economic conditions.
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International
12/11/2022 2:31:27 PM
Iran's currency fell to a record low against the dollar on Sunday, with nationwide anti-government protests now in their third month. A breakdown in negotiations to restore Tehran's nuclear deal has also hurt the value of the rial.
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Region
12/10/2022 6:37:17 PM
Two troops from Yemen's pro-government forces were killed in an armed ambush on a United Nations convoy in eastern Yemen, the U.N. said Saturday.
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Region
12/9/2022 7:23:47 PM
A Sunni cleric in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan was kidnapped and killed, the authorities said Friday -- the latest deadly incident in a region rocked by unrest.
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International
12/9/2022 3:47:47 PM
A Greek police officer accused of shooting and seriously wounding a Roma teenager during a police chase over an allegedly unpaid gas station bill will remain under house arrest, after a prosecutor and an investigating judge disagreed Friday on whether he should be jailed until his trial.
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International
12/8/2022 4:01:32 PM
Greece's government called for calm Thursday after overnight unrest in an Athens neighborhood and an area outside the country's second-largest city following the police shooting of a Roma teenager.
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Region
12/5/2022 7:06:46 PM
The United States on Monday said "nothing suggests" Iran is improving the treatment of women following reports Tehran was scrapping its notorious morality police amid a wave of civil unrest.
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Region
12/1/2022 6:12:40 PM
Iran's president paid a visit Thursday to Kurdistan province, the cradle of protests over Mahsa Amini's death, and urged people to thwart the "enemy" which his government accuses of stoking the unrest.
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International
11/29/2022 12:26:11 PM
China's major cities of Beijing and Shanghai were blanketed with security on Tuesday in the wake of nationwide rallies calling for political freedoms and an end to Covid lockdowns.
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International
11/29/2022 11:13:05 AM
Asian equities rose and the dollar weakened Tuesday as China avoided another night of protests after a weekend of unrest across, with speculation growing that officials will announce a further easing of the country's strict containment measures.
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World
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International
11/28/2022 10:33:14 PM
US President Joe Biden is closely monitoring unrest in China by protesters demanding an end to Covid lockdowns and greater political freedoms, the White House said Monday, as smaller demonstrations spilled over outside the country.
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Region
11/28/2022 8:34:15 PM
An Iranian general on Monday acknowledged that more than 300 people have been killed in the unrest surrounding nationwide protests, giving the first official word on casualties in two months.
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Africa
11/26/2022 8:49:06 PM
Militia fighters killed a lieutenant colonel and another soldier in the Democratic Republic of Congo's deeply troubled east, witnesses and local officials said Saturday.
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World
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International
11/23/2022 3:45:11 PM
Violent protests have broken out around a huge factory in central China's Zhengzhou, owned by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn and the world's largest manufacturer of iPhones, over Covid-19 restrictions and working conditions.
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World
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Africa
11/20/2022 8:49:40 PM
Facing calls to do more to resolve global crises, the world's French-speaking leaders met in Tunisia Sunday to discuss growing instability and popular discontent in francophone Africa.
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World
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Region
11/18/2022 7:24:13 PM
A senior Iranian military official visiting Baghdad this week threatened Iraq with a ground military operation in the country's north if the Iraqi army does not fortify the countries' shared border against Kurdish opposition groups, multiple Iraqi and Kurdish officials said.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 6:02:02 PM
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard issued a new warning on Saturday to antigovernment protesters, even as demonstrations continued in cities and university campuses across the country for the sixth straight week.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
10/25/2022 8:19:07 PM
For several years, turmoil and unrest in West African countries has resulted from security breakdowns, political vacuums, domestic conflicts and deteriorating economic conditions.
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