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International
7/15/2022 2:01:56 PM
Sri Lanka's prime minister was sworn in as its interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office.
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World
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International
7/12/2022 1:07:58 PM
Sri Lanka's leaders agreed that lawmakers will elect a new president next week but struggled Tuesday to decide on the makeup of a new government to lead the bankrupt country out of a economic and political collapse.
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World
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International
7/10/2022 3:42:41 PM
Sri Lanka's prime minister said late last month that the island nation's debt-laden economy had ``collapsed'' as it runs out of money to pay for food and fuel. Short of cash to pay for imports of such necessities and already defaulting on its debt, it is seeking help from neighboring India and China and from the International Monetary Fund.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
7/9/2022 3:04:03 PM
Iranian authorities arrested two film directors for "inciting unrest" following the deadly collapse of a building in the country's southwest in May, state media reported late Friday.
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World
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International
7/3/2022 10:40:18 PM
An avalanche set off by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others Sunday, an emergency services spokeswoman said.
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Business
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Economy
6/27/2022 4:52:26 PM
Sri Lanka is sending two government ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel, one of the necessities nearly exhausted amid the Indian Ocean island nation's economic collapse.
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World
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International
6/22/2022 1:22:45 PM
Sri Lanka's debt-laden economy has ``collapsed'' after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, its prime minister told lawmakers Wednesday, in comments underscoring the country's dire situation as it seeks help from international lenders.
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World
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Region
6/21/2022 8:00:26 PM
Israel's unlikely coalition government, the first ever backed by an Arab party, was forged a year ago to oust right-wing premier Benjamin Netanyahu, but ultimately collapsed over the Palestinian conflict.
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Egypt
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Society
6/17/2022 3:19:00 PM
Six people from one family were killed in a building collapse on Friday in Cairo’s El-Weili district, according to authorities.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
6/5/2022 2:47:55 PM
The question was posed in a private briefing to U.S. intelligence officials weeks before Russia launched its invasion in late February: Was Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, made in the mold of Britain's Winston Churchill or Afghanistan's Ashraf Ghani?
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World
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Region
5/31/2022 4:13:40 PM
Iran disrupted internet access to the outside world as angry demonstrators rallied over the collapse of a tower in southwestern Iran that has killed at least 34 people, experts said Tuesday as outrage and grief continued to grow in the country.
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World
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Region
5/30/2022 10:53:52 AM
Hundreds of people gathered in southwestern Iran to pay their respects to dozens who died in a building collapse, local media said Monday, as two more bodies were discovered.
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World
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Region
5/26/2022 10:15:54 AM
The death toll from the collapse of a tower block in southwestern Iran rose to 18, state media reported on Thursday, making it the country's deadliest such disaster in years.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
5/25/2022 9:58:25 AM
Chunks of thick, twisted metal and wood splinters lie among the swings and slides in the playground outside a bombed-out school. Some streets away, a yellow bathtub dangles over the void left when part of an apartment building collapsed in a bombing.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
5/18/2022 2:16:35 PM
Artyom Kotenko's world collapsed when Russia invaded Ukraine.
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World
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Region
5/15/2022 4:30:11 PM
Lebanese voted for a new parliament Sunday against the backdrop of an economic meltdown that is transforming the country and low expectations that the election would significantly alter the political landscape.
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World
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Region
5/10/2022 10:03:50 PM
Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine to independence amid the collapse of the Soviet Union and served as its first president, has died, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday. He was 88.
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World
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Region
5/9/2022 11:54:45 AM
The government of Israel's embattled prime minister was limping on Monday into the opening of parliament's summer session on the verge of collapse.
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Sports
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World
5/7/2022 6:26:19 PM
Chelsea's prospective new ownership watched Romelu Lukaku score his first English Premier League goals in 2022 before the team collapsed to 2-2 against Wolverhampton on Saturday, leaving work still to do to wrap up Champions League qualification.
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World
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Africa
5/5/2022 6:18:08 PM
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Mali could collapse if a UN peacekeeping mission withdrew, but suggested an option could be to replace it with an African Union force backed by a tougher operating mandate.
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