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Business
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Tech
5/26/2022 3:17:43 PM
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday its profit fell 59 percent in the last fiscal year, joining other tech firms that reported lacklustre results while grappling with Covid-19 restrictions and a sector crackdown.
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Business
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Economy
5/25/2022 3:36:08 PM
Soaring inflation. Russia's war in Ukraine. Squeezed supply chains. The threat of food insecurity around the world. The lingering COVID-19 pandemic.
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World
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Africa
5/25/2022 11:23:04 AM
Pfizer says it will provide nearly two dozen products, including its top-selling COVID-19 vaccine and treatment, at not-for-profit prices in Africa and some of the world's poorest countries.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/24/2022 9:52:33 PM
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World
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International
5/24/2022 12:47:20 PM
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency's member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday.
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World
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International
5/23/2022 10:02:26 PM
Parents hoping to get their youngest children vaccinated against COVID-19 got some encouraging news Monday.
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World
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International
5/23/2022 5:57:06 PM
Three doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday. Pfizer plans to give the data to U.S. regulators later this week in a step toward letting the littlest kids get the shots.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/22/2022 12:43:58 PM
Global reform efforts to better ward off new pandemic threats have been slow and fragmented, leaving the world as unprepared as when COVID-19 first surfaced, a report warned.
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World
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International
5/21/2022 7:38:14 PM
The White House is planning for ``dire'' contingencies that could include rationing supplies of vaccines and treatments this fall if Congress doesn't approve more money for fighting COVID-19.
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Sports
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Egyptian Football
5/19/2022 8:39:00 PM
Ahly’s Moroccan defender Badr Benoun started a rehabilitation program with the Reds on Thursday after recovering from a heart condition that he suffered due to a COVID-19 infection earlier in January.
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World
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International
5/17/2022 10:15:16 PM
An expert group convened by the World Health Organization says there may be some benefit in giving a second booster dose of coronavirus vaccine to the most vulnerable people amid the continuing global spread of omicron and its subvariants.
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Sports
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Africa
5/16/2022 6:10:03 PM
Sao Tome and Principe was thrown out of the African Cup of Nations qualifying tournament on Monday for breaching COVID-19 protocols in a preliminary tie against Mauritius in March.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
5/16/2022 2:01:02 PM
After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was cancelled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back _ even kisses were forbade on the red carpet _ the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/15/2022 3:42:00 PM
Life is back without coronavirus restrictions, but not everyone is happy.
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Egypt
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Health
5/14/2022 2:00:11 PM
Egypt recorded a daily average of five coronavirus infections and three deaths over the past week (7-13 May), hitting its lowest level since the start of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health and Population announced on Saturday.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/14/2022 12:48:19 PM
The WHO said that 348 probable cases of hepatitis of unknown origin had been identified, as studies into the potential role of adenovirus and COVID-19 infection gather pace.
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World
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International
5/12/2022 9:15:59 PM
The number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide has continued to fall except in the Americas and Africa, the World Health Organization said in its latest assessment of the pandemic.
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World
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International
5/12/2022 5:07:06 PM
President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders on Thursday for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 as he led the U.S. in marking the approaching ``tragic milestone'' of 1 million deaths at home from the virus. He ordered flags lowered to half-staff and warned against ``complacency'' around the globe.
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World
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Region
5/12/2022 4:11:58 PM
China said Thursday it was ready to "fully support" North Korea in its pandemic prevention efforts after Pyongyang reported its first official Covid-19 case and declared a national emergency.
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World
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International
5/12/2022 12:30:55 PM
North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record-keeping of the virus that has spread to nearly every place in the world.
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