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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/4/2022 8:16:02 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Paris for talks and a "working dinner" on Wednesday evening, hoping to prise New Delhi away from Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.
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Military
5/4/2022 7:26:47 PM
A Russian army helicopter violated Finland's airspace Wednesday, the defence ministry said, as the country mulls a potential NATO membership bid, which it hopes would be speedy.
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Military
5/4/2022 6:43:08 PM
Complaining that the West is ``stuffing Ukraine with weapons,'' Russia bombarded railroad stations and other supply-line targets across the country, as the European Union moved to further punish Moscow for the war Wednesday by proposing a ban on oil imports.
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Diplomacy
5/4/2022 6:31:40 PM
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was "open" to imposing more sanctions on Russia and would be discussing measures with allies from the G7 in the next few days.
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Diplomacy
5/4/2022 5:39:37 PM
The European Union plans to sanction the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in its next round of measures to punish Russia's invasion of Ukraine, EU diplomats said Wednesday, opening a new religious front in Europe's sanctions regime.
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Diplomacy
5/3/2022 4:28:26 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin told French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Tuesday the West must stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and accused Kyiv of not taking talks to end the conflict seriously, the Kremlin said.
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Diplomacy
5/1/2022 12:05:03 AM
Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin met Saturday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, his office said.
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Humanitarian
4/30/2022 11:31:00 PM
Hollywood actress and U.N. humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, the Lviv regional governor said on Telegram.
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Military
4/30/2022 11:09:36 PM
A group of 20 civilians are leaving the Azovstal steelworks, where the last Ukrainian troops are holed up in the Black Sea port of Mariupol, the soldiers there said Saturday.
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Military
4/30/2022 10:59:00 PM
A Russian reconnaissance plane briefly violated Sweden's airspace on Friday, Swedish defence officials said on Saturday, as the Scandinavian country ponders a bid for NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Military
4/30/2022 9:31:05 PM
Ukrainian forces fought village by village Saturday to hold back a Russian advance through the country's east, while the United Nations worked to broker a civilian evacuation from the last defensive stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the port city of Mariupol.
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Military
4/30/2022 8:49:04 PM
A Russian rocket attack destroyed an airport runway in Odesa, Ukraine's third-largest city and a key Black Sea port, the Ukrainian army said Saturday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
4/30/2022 4:06:00 PM
Al-Ahram Weekly talks to Roberta Gatti, World Bank chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa region, about projections for key Egyptian macroeconomic indices amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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World
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International
4/28/2022 11:42:59 PM
A retired Bosnian Muslim forces general was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday for war crimes committed by foreign jihadists during Bosnia's brutal 1990s conflict.
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World
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Africa
4/28/2022 4:02:10 PM
The Counter-Terrorism Watch at the Forum for Development and Human Rights Dialogue (FDHRD) issued on Thursday a new report entitled “Human Security in the African Sahel: Climate Change and Terrorism”.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/28/2022 4:00:00 PM
Egypt called for adequate, sustained, and predictable funding for peacebuilding activities in conflict-affected countries during a high-level meeting of the General Assembly on financing for peacebuilding at its 76th session on Wednesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/27/2022 4:43:18 PM
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine:
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Economy
4/27/2022 4:05:21 PM
Russia's Gazprom says it is halting natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, escalating tensions between the Kremlin and Europe over energy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine _ and adding new urgency to plans to reduce and then end the continent's dependence on Russia as a supplier of oil and gas.
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Diplomacy
4/27/2022 3:05:20 PM
Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America, a senior U.S. official and the Russian foreign ministry said.
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Business
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Economy
4/27/2022 2:02:37 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded its projection for the real GDP growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to five percent, down from 5.8 percent in 2021.
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