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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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Egypt
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Politics
5/1/2022 4:28:23 PM
Egypt’s celebration of Labour Day is an opportunity to highlight the progress made by loyal Egyptian workers in building the “new republic,” President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said in a recorded speech aired Sunday on the holiday, which is observed worldwide on 1 May.
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World
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Region
4/28/2022 4:38:51 PM
Millions of workers staged a crippling strike in Sri Lanka on Thursday, adding to pressure on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his ruling family to quit over the country's worst-ever economic crisis.
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World
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International
4/28/2022 11:36:02 AM
Businesses were closed, teachers absent and public transportation interrupted as Sri Lankans heeded a call for a general strike Thursday to pressure the president to step down over a growing economic and political crisis.
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Egypt
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Society
4/26/2022 4:49:15 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Manpower Mohamed Saafan said the country’s recent national development projects created a multitude of job opportunities and contributed to reducing the rate of unemployment.
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World
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Region
4/25/2022 8:29:56 PM
Israel will re-open its only crossing from Gaza for workers two days after closing it, the defence ministry said Monday, following a lull in rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave.
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Egypt
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Society
4/24/2022 2:20:06 PM
Young men on bikes and scooters zip through Cairo, Egypt's sprawling megalopolis, dodging cars to deliver more than a million orders each day, with little physical or legal protection.
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World
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Region
4/23/2022 12:01:44 PM
Israel said Saturday that it would close its crossing to thousands of Gaza workers after a series of rockets were fired from the territory ruled by the militant Hamas group in recent days.
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World
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Region
4/17/2022 1:47:01 PM
Israeli police on Sunday entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City to secure the way for Jewish visitors to the flashpoint holy site, fueling clashes that left 17 Palestinians wounded, according to Palestinian medical workers.
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Egypt
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Society
4/13/2022 6:06:36 PM
Pensions for public sector workers for May will be disbursed on 22 April, pushed up from early May, head of Egypt’s National Authority for Social Insurance Gamal Awad said on Wednesday.
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World
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International
4/6/2022 12:27:00 PM
Public transport largely ground to a halt in the Greek capital Wednesday and state-run services remained shuttered as workers walked off the job in a 24-hour general strike to protest rising prices.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/4/2022 11:32:06 PM
Egypt has extended condolences to Sudan over the drowning of more than 20 people when a boat carrying agricultural workers capsized in southeastern Sennar province last week.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/29/2022 12:41:28 PM
Russia on Tuesday temporarily exempted young IT workers from military service after an exodus of programmers following Moscow's military operation in Ukraine.
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World
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International
3/29/2022 11:58:29 AM
Hundreds of workers marched with the red flags of the labor unions and chanted anti-government slogans in India's capital on Tuesday as part of a two-day nationwide strike that began Monday.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/16/2022 3:08:04 PM
A hundred technicians are working under armed guard to maintain the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, held hostage for three weeks by Russian forces who seized the compound in the first hours of the invasion.
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World
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International
3/6/2022 9:33:20 PM
Firefighters and emergency workers battled two massive wildfires Sunday in an area of the Florida Panhandle that was still recovering from the destruction caused by a Category 5 hurricane more than three years ago.
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World
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Region
2/23/2022 4:09:46 PM
Soaring inflation in Turkey has propelled a wave of strikes unlike any the country has seen since the 1970s, as workers demand more money to counter the shrinking value of their pay.
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Egypt
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Society
2/22/2022 10:00:00 PM
Three thousand irregularly employed female farmers (rural poineers) have been included to the social insurance system for irregular workers according to the social insurance law as of January 2022, Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine El-Qabbaj announced on Tuesday.
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World
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International
2/22/2022 1:40:05 PM
Women working in Afghan government departments must cover-up, even with a blanket if necessary, or they may lose their jobs, the Taliban's religious police said Tuesday.
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World
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Region
2/20/2022 6:01:43 PM
Pope Francis on Sunday hailed healthcare workers as heroes for their service every day, not just during the pandemic, asking the public in St. Peter's Square to join with him in applause.
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