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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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World
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International
4/26/2022 10:36:19 PM
US Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday but is asymptomatic and not considered a current close contact of President Joe Biden, the White House said.
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World
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International
4/26/2022 10:35:36 PM
Finnish president Sauli Niinisto is in hospital for monitoring due to "prolonged Covid-19 symptoms," his office said Tuesday.
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World
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International
4/26/2022 9:10:06 PM
A dramatic drop in testing for Covid-19 has left the world blind to the virus's continuing rampage and its potentially dangerous mutations, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
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World
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International
4/26/2022 11:19:33 AM
China's capital Beijing is enforcing mass testing and closing down access to neighborhoods as it seeks to contain a new COVID-19 outbreak.
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