War in Ukraine
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Military
5/19/2022 10:01:07 PM
Hundreds more Ukrainian fighters who made their stand inside Mariupol's bombed-out steel plant surrendered, bringing the total to over 1,700, Russia said Thursday, amid international fears about the fate of the prisoners in Moscow's hands.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/19/2022 7:09:53 PM
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed on Thursday the latest military and humanitarian developments in the Ukrainian crisis with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in a telephone call, the Egyptian foreign ministry said.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/19/2022 11:17:47 AM
The battle that turned Mariupol into a worldwide symbol of defiance and suffering drew toward a close as Russia said nearly 1,000 last-ditch Ukrainian fighters who held out inside a pulverized steel plant had surrendered.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/18/2022 3:36:46 PM
A Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the start of the war has pleaded guilty to charges of killing a Ukrainian civilian.
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Business
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Economy
5/18/2022 12:11:05 PM
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) is set to convene on Thursday to review the key interest rates for the third time in 2022 and for the second time since the breakout of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/18/2022 11:12:44 AM
The Russian Defense Ministry says that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian troops holed up in their last stronghold in Mariupol have handed themselves over.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/17/2022 9:55:28 PM
The war with Russia is entering "a protracted phase", Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said Tuesday, as Moscow's troops are now trying to take full control of the east and south of the country.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/17/2022 8:46:24 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky during a call on Tuesday that arms supplies from Paris would "increase in intensity", according to a statement from the French presidency.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/17/2022 7:05:18 PM
Russia said Tuesday that 265 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered after staging a last stand at the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, prompting Kyiv to call for a prisoner exchange.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/17/2022 5:38:27 PM
The Ukrainian forces who made a determined last stand in a Mariupol steel mill against Russian troops were a mixture of seasoned soldiers, border guards, a controversial national guard regiment and volunteers who took up arms in the weeks before Russia's invasion.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/17/2022 2:21:59 PM
The Vatican's foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, is heading to Kyiv this week as the Holy See seeks to balance its concern for Ukrainians amid Russia's war with its efforts to keep open a channel of dialogue with Moscow.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/17/2022 1:47:56 PM
Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters defending the last holdout in Mariupol were evacuated to areas controlled by Russian-backed separatists and officials worked Tuesday to get the rest out, signaling the beginning of the end of a siege that became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance.
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World
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Africa
5/16/2022 11:01:57 PM
The president of the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies on Monday rebuked what he said was Europe's starkly different treatment of African migrants compared to those from Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/16/2022 9:57:15 AM
Russian forces focused their latest attacks in Ukraine on the Donetsk region in the east, targeting civilian and military sites in multiple towns, the Ukrainian military said Monday.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
5/15/2022 7:28:17 PM
Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra, fresh off its Eurovision victory, released a new music video Sunday of its winning hit “Stefania” that features scenes of war-ravaged Ukraine and women in combat gear, as the annual song contest took on ever more political tones.
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Egypt
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Politics
5/15/2022 6:36:12 PM
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Egypt is working on a five-pillar plan to cope with the current global economic crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/14/2022 8:55:07 PM
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and a delegation of GOP senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv during an unannounced visit Saturday, delivering the latest show of American solidarity with the country at war with Russia.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/14/2022 5:29:31 PM
Russian troops are withdrawing from around Ukraine's second-largest city after bombarding it for weeks, the Ukrainian military said Saturday, as Kyiv and Moscow's forces engaged in a grinding battle for the country's eastern industrial heartland.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/14/2022 12:47:55 PM
Journalists packed a small courtroom in Kyiv for the trial of a captured Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian in the early days of the war, the first of dozens of war crimes cases that Ukraine's top prosecutor said her office is pursuing.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
5/13/2022 3:51:47 PM
Fleeing Ukraine, Natalia Ivanovska left her cello with her parents in Lviv -- it was too dangerous to try to carry it.
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