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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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World
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International
5/11/2022 3:03:37 PM
The European Union will no longer require masks to be worn at airports and on planes starting next week amid the easing of coronavirus restrictions across the bloc, authorities said Wednesday.
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Opinion
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5/11/2022 12:05:22 PM
China is now developing new engines of economic growth, new modes of social life and new pathways of people-to-people exchange, in order to facilitate cross-border trade, keep industrial and supply chains secure and smooth, and to promote steady and solid progress in global economic recovery.
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World
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International
5/9/2022 5:27:49 PM
Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, just as the city was emerging from a month of strict lockdown due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/6/2022 10:30:08 AM
The Asian Games due to take place in Hangzhou in September have been postponed indefinitely, organisers said Friday, as China battles a resurgence of Covid cases.
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World
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International
5/5/2022 2:26:47 PM
The Covid-19 pandemic killed 13.3 to 16.6 million people in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimated Thursday -- up to triple the number of deaths attributed directly to the disease.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
5/5/2022 12:25:40 PM
OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, are weighing conflicting forces Thursday as they decide how much crude should flow to volatile global markets. Europe's proposal to phase out Russian oil and other Western sanctions are choking back supply, while COVID-19 shutdowns in China are cutting demand.
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World
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International
5/4/2022 10:17:21 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive Wednesday for Covid-19 and will shift to a virtual work schedule, the State Department said.
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Egypt
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Politics
5/3/2022 7:50:00 PM
Ahram daily newspaper talked to Guy Ryder, the director-general of the International Labour Organisation, about the new challenges facing workers and economies across the world amid a multitude of crises, especially the COVID-19 pandemic.
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World
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International
5/1/2022 3:19:38 PM
Italy and Greece relaxed some COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday, in a sign that life was increasingly returning to normal before Europe's peak summer tourist season.
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World
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International
5/1/2022 1:14:49 PM
Only a few people strolled the pedestrian-only streets Sunday in central Beijing's historic Qianmen district, normally an area that would be bustling with tourists on what was a national holiday and a sunny spring day.
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Egypt
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Health
4/30/2022 5:51:00 PM
Egypt recorded a daily average of 46 coronavirus infections and five deaths over the past week (23 to 29 April 2022), as the country’s rates of infection and death continue to drop.
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World
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International
4/29/2022 12:51:26 PM
Inflation hit a new record for the 19 countries that use the euro as skyrocketing fuel prices boosted by the war in Ukraine add new burdens to household finances and weigh on a slowing economic recovery from the latest outbreaks of COVID-19.
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World
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International
4/28/2022 10:26:01 PM
In the weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians have fled the country as refugees. Hundreds of those refugees have now arrived at the southern border of the United States seeking asylum, after flying to Mexico on tourist visas.
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World
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International
4/28/2022 2:37:41 PM
Beijing is closing all city schools in a further tightening of COVID-19 restrictions, as China's capital seeks to prevent a wider outbreak.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
4/28/2022 11:57:00 AM
Muslims in the diaspora are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan together again this year after two years of Covid-19 restrictions
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World
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International
4/28/2022 12:01:04 AM
US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended the administration's handling of immigration Wednesday amid a huge surge at the Mexico border that is expected to intensify as pandemic-related entry curbs are dropped.
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World
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International
4/27/2022 11:18:27 PM
Measles cases have surged by nearly 80 percent worldwide this year, the UN said Wednesday, warning that the rise of the "canary in a coal mine" illness indicates that outbreaks of other diseases are likely on the way.
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World
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International
4/27/2022 7:19:31 PM
Dr. Anthony Fauci has given an upbeat assessment of the current state of the coronavirus in the United States, saying the country is ``out of the pandemic phase'' when it comes to new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, but that it appears to be making a transition to COVID-19 becoming an endemic disease, occurring regularly in certain areas.
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