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8/11/2022 8:03:27 PM
Torrential rains across southwestern Yemen and the country's capital of Sanaa have triggered flashfloods and collapsed homes, killing at least 38 people over the past two days, officials said Thursday.
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World
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Region
8/2/2022 10:53:02 PM
Yemen's warring parties agreed to extend a four-month long truce just hours before it was due to expire, the UN envoy announced Tuesday, vowing to "intensify" efforts to secure lasting peace.
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Africa
7/31/2022 2:15:09 PM
Senegal on Sunday voted in parliamentary elections the opposition hopes will force a coalition with President Macky Sall and curb any ambitions he may hold for a third term.
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World
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Africa
7/30/2022 9:11:28 PM
A Guinean opposition coalition on Saturday said it was calling off protests for a week following deadly clashes and a plea for calm by West Africa's regional bloc.
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World
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Region
7/24/2022 10:11:43 PM
The UN envoy for Yemen on Sunday condemned suspected rebel shelling of a residential neighborhood in the southwestern city of Taiz the previous day that killed at least one child and wounded 10.
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World
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International
7/21/2022 10:45:35 AM
The expected resignation of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi will open a "period of uncertainty" and mark the loss of a "pillar of Europe," France's European affairs minister said on Thursday.
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World
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International
7/21/2022 10:45:01 AM
Italian Premier Mario Draghi resigned Thursday after key coalition allies boycotted a confidence vote, signaling the likelihood of early elections and a renewed period of uncertainty for Italy and Europe at a critical time.
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World
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International
7/21/2022 9:57:59 AM
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was expected to resign Thursday after efforts to bring the country's fractious parties to heel failed, kicking off a snap election campaign before the government had even fallen.
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World
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International
7/20/2022 9:21:11 PM
Italian Premier Mario Draghi won a confidence vote Wednesday in the Senate, but it was a hollow victory after boycotts by three of his key coalition allies in the voting virtually doomed any prospects for his unity government's survival.
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World
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International
7/20/2022 2:12:56 PM
Italian Premier Mario Draghi said spontaneous displays of support for his government were ``unprecedented and impossible to ignore'' as he weighed Wednesday whether to rescind his resignation offer.
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World
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Region
6/29/2022 7:25:47 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will not run in upcoming elections, his office said Wednesday, after he led a broad but fragile coalition government that came unraveled barely a year after taking office.
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World
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Region
6/28/2022 11:24:49 AM
A drone strike by the U.S.-led coalition in northwestern Syria killed a senior member of an al-Qaeda-linked group, Syrian opposition activists and the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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World
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International
6/28/2022 12:03:09 AM
Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov submitted the resignation of his coalition government to the National Assembly on Monday after it was ousted in a no-confidence motion, the press office of the Parliament said.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
6/26/2022 8:49:56 PM
President Joe Biden and Western allies opened a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday intent on keeping economic fallout from the war in Ukraine from fracturing the global coalition working to punish Russia's aggression.
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World
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Region
6/22/2022 5:04:29 PM
After barely 12 months in office, the leaders of Israel's broad-based but severely weakened coalition government threw in the towel this week, saying they would dissolve parliament and hold new elections, the fifth in 3 1/2 years.
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World
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Region
6/21/2022 8:00:26 PM
Israel's unlikely coalition government, the first ever backed by an Arab party, was forged a year ago to oust right-wing premier Benjamin Netanyahu, but ultimately collapsed over the Palestinian conflict.
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World
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Region
6/20/2022 8:55:37 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office announced Monday that his weakened coalition will be disbanded and the country will head to new elections.
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World
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International
6/19/2022 9:38:21 AM
France began voting Sunday in the final round of parliamentary elections, with centrist President Emmanuel Macron's coalition looking to hold off a challenge from a newly formed left-wing alliance.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/16/2022 5:04:11 PM
Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development (ECHRD) issued a report on Thursday detailing a threefold increase in Israeli hate speech and incitement against Palestinians on social media in 2021 over 2020 and describing its long term harms.
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World
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Region
6/12/2022 1:01:16 PM
Saudi Arabia on Sunday pledged $10 million to help prevent an ageing Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea bordering its waters.
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