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World
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International
9/5/2022 8:31:00 PM
At least 46 people were reported killed and 16 missing in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a COVID-19 lockdown.
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World
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International
9/3/2022 8:57:52 PM
A wind-swept wildfire in rural Northern California tore through a neighborhood and destroyed about 100 homes and other buildings, fire officials said Saturday after at least two people were injured and thousands were forced from their homes.
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Egypt
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Society
8/9/2022 2:10:06 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Housing Assem El-Gazzar has directed his ministry to study a plan to rationalise energy and water consumption across Egypt, which includes reducing lighting on roads, regulating the use of air conditioners in government buildings amid the ongoing global energy crisis.
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World
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International
7/27/2022 12:01:54 PM
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least four people in the northern Philippines Wednesday, toppling buildings, and shaking high-rise towers more than 300 kilometres (185 miles) away in the capital Manila.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
7/26/2022 2:09:08 PM
Russia targeted Ukraine's Black Sea regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv with air strikes Tuesday, hitting private buildings and port infrastructure along the country's southern coast, the Ukrainian military said.
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World
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Region
7/18/2022 10:52:32 PM
Thousands of Sudan's Hausa people set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities Monday, witnesses said, after a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country's south.
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Business
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Economy
7/18/2022 6:13:39 PM
Egypt’s New Administrative Capital (NAC) is set to launch an international tender to install photovoltaic solar cells on the rooftops of some of its residential buildings to generate electricity with an estimated capacity of 130 megawatts.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
7/15/2022 1:48:33 PM
The European Commission is expected next week to ask EU countries to reduce the heating and cooling of public buildings and offices to cut demand for gas, according to a document seen by AFP.
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World
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International
7/10/2022 12:51:28 PM
Sri Lanka's opposition political parties will meet Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the country's president and prime minister offered to resign in the most dramatic day of months long political turmoil, with protesters storming both leaders' homes and setting fire to one of the buildings in a rage over the economic crisis.
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Egypt
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Society
6/14/2022 7:05:56 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Environment and top religious authority Al-Azhar signed a cooperation protocol on Tuesday to increase environmental awareness and join efforts to turn Al-Azhar buildings and its facilities to become eco-friendly by reducing energy and water consumption rates.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/31/2022 11:43:01 AM
A court in Ukraine has convicted two Russian soldiers of war crimes for the shelling of civilian buildings and sentenced both to 11 1/2 years in prison. Tuesday's verdict concluded the country's second war crimes trial since the Russian invasion started.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/27/2022 2:09:52 PM
Russian forces on Friday pounded the last Ukrainian strongholds in a separatist-controlled eastern province of Ukraine, including a city where authorities said 1,500 people have been killed and 60% of residential buildings destroyed since the start of the war.
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World
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Region
5/23/2022 10:41:53 AM
Iraq closed airports and public buildings on Monday as another sandstorm -- the ninth since mid-April -- hit the country, authorities said.
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Books
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News
5/19/2022 3:23:09 PM
The American University in Cairo Press, has recently released “Ottoman Cairo” book by late author Chahinda Karim. The book was published posthumously.
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World
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International
5/4/2022 9:45:05 PM
Tens of thousands of protesters blocked streets and gathered around government buildings in Armenia's capital on Wednesday to demand the prime minister's resignation over his calls for a formal peace agreement with neighboring Azerbaijan.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
4/28/2022 7:18:00 PM
Restoration work on the Mausoleum of Qansuh Abu Said in Cairo and the Mosque of Abdullah Asi in Al-Mahala Al-Kobra has been completed, with both buildings set to be reopened soon.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/29/2022 4:54:13 PM
The bodies of two Russian soldiers lie abandoned in the woods. Ukrainian forces piled atop a tank flash victory signs. Dazed people line up amid charred buildings to reach for aid. These are the sights in a Ukrainian town that has seized back control from Russian forces, at least for now.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
3/20/2022 8:40:48 PM
A total of 6,511 buildings have been demolished on 1.1 million square metres nationwide in two weeks during the ongoing campaign to remove encroachments on state-owned properties and agricultural lands, announced Minister of Local Development Mahmoud Shaarawy in a statement on Sunday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/16/2022 9:29:23 AM
Several explosions rocked Kyiv early Wednesday, according to AFP journalists in the city, with emergency services saying two residential buildings were damaged and two people wounded.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
3/15/2022 9:07:19 PM
The architecture of many older buildings in Alexandria is symbolic of how Egypt’s Levantines were once part and parcel of the country’s cosmopolitan character, writes Farah El-Akkad
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