Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
7/15/2023 5:46:00 PM
Last month’s mutiny by Russian Wagner Group forces may help Turkey and Iran to further their agendas in the Middle East and Africa.
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World
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Region
7/15/2023 9:50:08 AM
The United Nations is concerned about "unacceptable conditions" set by Damascus for allowing aid to flow through its Bab al-Hawa crossing to rebel-held areas in northwest Syria, according to a document reviewed Friday by AFP.
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World
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Region
7/13/2023 10:07:40 PM
Syrians in the country's last rebel enclave expressed alarm after the United Nations Security Council failed to renew an aid delivery mechanism to the area, imperilling critical humanitarian assistance.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/12/2023 9:47:48 PM
Mercenaries of the Wagner Group are completing the handover of their weapons to the Russian military, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday, a move that follows the private army's brief rebellion last month that challenged the Kremlin's authority.
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World
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Region
7/11/2023 7:15:04 PM
Russia blocked a nine-month extension of a key Syria aid route at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that allows for the delivery of aid overland from Turkey into rebel-held areas of Syria.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/10/2023 5:54:48 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at the Kremlin days after the commander led a short-lived rebellion, a senior government spokesman said Monday, the latest twist in a baffling episode that has raised questions about the power and influence held by both men.
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World
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Region
7/8/2023 11:18:20 AM
The U.N. Security Council is to vote Monday on extending aid deliveries from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest, with a resolution sponsored by Brazil and Switzerland calling for a 12-month extension and a rival Russia resolution limiting a renewal to just six months.
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World
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International
7/7/2023 12:36:50 PM
Russia’s rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin walked free from prosecution for his June 24 armed mutiny, and it's still unclear if anyone will face any charges in the aborted uprising against military leaders or for the deaths of the soldiers killed in it.
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World
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International
7/4/2023 10:46:59 PM
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the Russian people are “united as never before,” seeking to project confidence in the wake of a short-lived revolt while participating in a meeting of an international organization that offered him a sympathetic audience.
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World
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Region
7/4/2023 9:33:36 PM
A UN official visiting Syria's Idlib on Tuesday urged a 12-month extension of a cross-border aid mechanism to the rebel-held, quake-hit region, just days before the current six-month period expires.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/3/2023 9:53:00 AM
President Vladimir Putin will participate this week in his first multilateral summit since an armed rebellion rattled Russia, as part of a rare international grouping in which his country still enjoys support.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/28/2023 5:55:38 PM
Ukrainian authorities arrested on Wednesday a man they accused of helping Russia direct a missile strike that killed at least 10 people, including three teenagers, at a popular pizza restaurant in east Ukraine.
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World
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Africa
6/28/2023 3:43:39 PM
The Russian mercenary group that briefly threatened President Vladimir Putin’s authority has for years been a ruthless force-for-hire across Africa, protecting rulers at the expense of the masses.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/28/2023 2:35:39 PM
NATO is ready to defend itself against any threat from "Moscow or Minsk", alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said late on Tuesday, after Belarus welcomed Wagner rebel leader Yevgeny Prigozhin into exile.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/27/2023 7:48:46 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin told troops gathered Tuesday at the Kremlin they prevented civil war after a revolt by Wagner mercenaries, and held a minute's silence for pilots killed during the insurrection.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/27/2023 7:07:27 PM
Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the private army of inmate recruits and other mercenaries that has fought some of the deadliest battles in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is in Belarus after his abortive armed rebellion against the Kremlin, Belarus’s president said Tuesday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/27/2023 2:54:43 PM
On the surface, the turmoil in Russia would seem like something for the US to celebrate: a powerful mercenary Wagner group engaging in a short-lived clash with Russia’s military at the very moment that Ukraine is trying to gain momentum in a critical counteroffensive.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/27/2023 12:25:03 PM
Russian authorities said Tuesday they have closed a criminal investigation into the armed rebellion led by Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, with no charges against him or any of the other participants.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/26/2023 3:14:42 PM
The head of the Wagner group is still under investigation for trying to organise an armed rebellion, Russian news agencies reported on Monday, despite a deal to end his mutiny announced earlier by the Kremlin.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/26/2023 9:50:07 AM
The rebellious mercenary soldiers who briefly took over a Russian military headquarters on an ominous march toward Moscow were gone Sunday, but the short-lived revolt has weakened President Vladimir Putin just as his forces are facing a fierce counteroffensive in Ukraine.
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