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International
11/2/2022 2:08:45 PM
Chinese authorities imposed lockdowns on 600,000 people in the area surrounding the world's largest iPhone factory on Wednesday, as workers complained of disorderly Covid controls at the facility.
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International
10/30/2022 10:41:03 AM
Emergency workers scrambled to rescue residents trapped by floods in and around the Philippine capital on Sunday as Tropical Storm Nalgae swept out of the country after killing at least 48 people.
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World
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International
10/26/2022 3:31:13 PM
Bangladesh rescue workers found the bodies of four missing crew of a dredger boat, taking the death toll from Cyclone Sitrang to 28 as millions remained without power, officials said Wednesday.
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10/23/2022 4:41:42 PM
Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar attended the launch of a campaign to administer hepatitis A vaccinations to workers serving and preparing food in Sharm El-Sheikh hotels in cooperation with GlaxoSmithKline company.
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Region
10/22/2022 5:45:32 PM
Shopkeepers and factory workers went on strike in Iran on Saturday as women-led nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini entered the sixth week, activists said.
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Business
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Energy
10/20/2022 7:27:02 PM
The Energy and Environment Committee of the House of Representatives approved on Wednesday new government-drafted legislative amendments to the law regulating the performance of the country's Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA), which aim to speed up the construction of Dabaa nuclear Power Plant (NPP).
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International
10/18/2022 4:08:06 PM
As the sun beat down on Tuesday on the English seaside resort of Brighton, gathering union leaders warned of mass winter strikes in the face of Britain's cost-of-living crisis.
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World
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International
10/18/2022 2:55:19 PM
Industries across France went on strike Tuesday to push for pay hikes that keep up with rising inflation, ramping up the clash between workers and the government after weeks of walkouts that hobbled oil refineries and sparked gasoline shortages around the country.
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World
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International
10/15/2022 7:02:49 PM
Even close to midnight on a school night, the tipoff was too important to ignore: A nearby gas station had just been resupplied.
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Africa
10/15/2022 6:04:17 PM
The International Rescue Committee said Saturday one of its aid workers was among three civilians killed in an attack in Tigray where Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have launched an offensive.
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World
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International
10/15/2022 2:53:30 PM
A man was found dead and two others were missing on Saturday after torrential rain brought major flooding to the Greek island of Crete, emergency workers said.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
10/10/2022 11:52:10 PM
Over 18,000 workers in Sharm El-Sheikh, including hotel staffers and taxi drivers, received booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine in preparation for the 27th UN Climate Change Conference COP27, slated for November in Egypt’s coastal city.
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World
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Region
10/10/2022 10:07:50 PM
Workers at refineries crucial for Iran's oil and natural gas production protested Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos appeared to show, escalating the crisis faced by Tehran.
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World
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International
10/8/2022 5:14:49 PM
The death toll from a gas station explosion that shattered a small village in northwest Ireland rose to 10 on Saturday, and emergency workers who combed through piles of rubble said they did not expect to find more bodies.
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World
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International
10/8/2022 2:50:40 PM
Most train services across the U.K. were cancelled Saturday as thousands of rail workers staged the latest in a string of strikes over jobs, pay and working conditions.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
10/6/2022 10:51:06 AM
Alone in his apartment in the Russian-occupied city of Enerhodar in southeastern Ukraine, nuclear plant security guard Serhiy Shvets looked out his kitchen window in late May and saw gunmen approaching on the street below. When his buzzer rang, he was sure he was about to die.
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World
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International
10/5/2022 8:05:56 PM
Train travel in Britain was disrupted on Wednesday by the latest in a string of strikes by railway workers over wages.
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Sports
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World
10/4/2022 4:02:46 PM
Paris will not broadcast World Cup matches on giant screens in public fan zones amid concerns over rights violations of migrant workers and the environmental impact of the tournament in Qatar.
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World
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Africa
9/30/2022 4:49:28 PM
An airstrike in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed at least five civilians earlier this week as the revived war continues, according to humanitarian workers and an internal document seen by The Associated Press.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
9/29/2022 5:16:18 PM
Russia's effort to conscript 300,000 reservists to counter Ukraine's military advances in Kharkiv has drawn a lot of attention from military and political analysts. But there's also a potential energy angle.
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