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World
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International
9/9/2022 3:39:48 PM
British railway and postal workers, at the forefront of sector-wide strikes over a cost-of-living crisis, have halted upcoming walkouts following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/4/2022 6:30:36 PM
Egypt is set to officially open the first line of its three-line high-speed train network – the country's first-ever electric railway – on 7 November, a statement by the Ministry of Transport said on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/24/2022 6:36:31 PM
Egypt’s Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly oversaw on Wednesday the signing of a contract with South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem to locally manufacture and import 320 new air-conditioned metro carriages.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/24/2022 5:31:38 PM
The Egyptian Ministry of Transportation has been building the Bashteel Railway Station in Giza governorate since 2020, with the aim of serving passengers travelling to and from Upper Egypt.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/21/2022 6:08:44 PM
Minister of Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir ordered on Sunday speeding up the transformation of the ministry's Railway Goods Transport Sector into a multimodal transport company independent of the Egyptian Railway Authority (ERA).
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World
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International
8/20/2022 1:25:13 PM
Railway staff in Britain on Saturday staged the latest in a series of strikes, the second in three days, as decades-high inflation hit salaries and prompted walkouts across various industries.
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World
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International
8/19/2022 2:56:01 PM
Public transport workers in London held fresh strikes Friday over pay and conditions, cutting services on almost all underground and overground rail lines that link up the UK capital.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/16/2022 2:03:33 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Transport – represented by the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) – has signed a preliminary agreement with a consortium of German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the Egyptian private-sector company El-Sewedi Electric on the management and operation of the country's first high-speed electric train network.
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World
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International
8/13/2022 1:06:41 PM
Thousands of U.K. train drivers walked off the job Saturday in a strike over jobs, pay and conditions, scuppering services across much of the country. The action was the latest in a spreading series of strikes by British workers seeking substantial raises to offset soaring prices for food and fuel.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/7/2022 12:53:09 PM
At least eight people were killed and 13 injured after two trucks collided on Sunday in Upper Egypt's Minya governorate, around 270 kilometres from the capital Cairo, authorities said.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
8/5/2022 1:01:00 PM
Amid the ongoing development and improvements in recent years of the roads and railway sector in Egypt, news of current major accidents drew headlines for their relatively large death tolls.
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World
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International
7/27/2022 11:37:20 AM
Britain's railway network ground to a crawl on Wednesday after 40,000 staff walked off the job in a dispute over jobs, pay and working conditions. Train companies said only about a fifth of services across the country were due to run.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
7/26/2022 9:16:40 PM
Egypt recorded a 9.3 percent drop in traffic injuries in 2021 compared to 2020, as well as a 46.5 percent increase in railway-related injuries over the same period, a recent report released by the country’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) said on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
7/25/2022 2:19:32 PM
Minister of Transportation Kamel El-Wazir revealed on Sunday evening that the ministry is conducting a study to implement “a small increase” in the fares for the Cairo Metro and railway trains, as the ministry is attempting to reduce a large budget deficit due to the increase in expenses amid global inflation.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
7/24/2022 5:04:48 PM
The high-speed electric railway network linking the whole country will reduce the travel time between governorates by more than 50 percent, said Minister of Transportation Kamel El-Wazir.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
7/23/2022 10:34:06 AM
Russian missile strikes on railway infrastructure and a military airfield in central Ukraine on Saturday left at least three people dead, including a Ukrainian serviceman, a regional governor said.
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World
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International
6/25/2022 7:41:34 PM
Britain's railway system once again came to a virtual standstill on Saturday and flights in Europe were disrupted as strikes in the travel sector hit the continent.
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World
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International
6/22/2022 10:19:37 PM
Britain faces the second of three national railway strikes Thursday after new negotiations between union and employers ended in deadlock.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
6/22/2022 10:09:42 PM
A woman died when a cargo train derailed in Beheira governorate in northern Egypt on Wednesday, according to the Egyptian National Railways (ENR).
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World
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International
6/21/2022 2:22:51 PM
Tens of thousands of railway workers walked off the job in Britain on Tuesday, bringing the train network to a crawl in the country's biggest transit strike for three decades.
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