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World
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International
5/11/2023 10:22:36 AM
The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
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World
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Africa
5/10/2023 1:05:38 PM
Fifteen children drowned and 25 others were missing when a boat capsized in a river in northwest Nigeria's Sokoto state, a local official told AFP Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
5/7/2023 7:34:43 PM
Weather related disasters that hit Rwanda earlier this week have displaced more than 9,000 people in different provinces of the country, an official has said.
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World
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International
5/7/2023 10:20:41 AM
Washington's power brokers love playing chicken. But the rest of the world will watch in dread Tuesday when President Joe Biden and Republican leaders meet to negotiate the US debt ceiling -- praying that one side finally blinks.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/1/2023 2:33:23 PM
Sudan's already troubled health sector faces the risk of "disaster" after more than two weeks of heavy fighting have rocked the poverty-stricken country, a UN World Health Organization official warns.
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World
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Africa
4/11/2023 10:34:01 AM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Mogadishu on Tuesday to kick off a brief visit to Somalia, a country scarred by protracted armed conflict and climate disasters.
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World
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Africa
4/5/2023 4:03:00 PM
The South African government on Wednesday lifted a National State of Disaster, a legal move introduced in February to fast-track efforts to tackle a crippling electricity shortage.
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World
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International
4/3/2023 12:45:03 PM
Five weeks after Greece's worst rail disaster, which killed 57 people, partial service resumed on Monday on the main train line linking Athens and Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/27/2023 11:57:07 PM
Foreign Minister and President of the 27th session of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, Sameh Shoukry has reaffirmed the importance of activating a breakthrough agreement to provide “loss and damage” funding for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate disasters.
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World
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Region
3/13/2023 10:47:49 PM
Greece’s prime minister Monday said a massive earthquake in Turkey and deadly rail disaster in northern Greece have helped de-escalate tension between the two neighbors, driven by a popular feeling of solidarity.
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World
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Africa
3/13/2023 10:04:56 PM
Nearly 100 people have died in Malawi's southern districts after Cyclone Freddy made a rare return to southern Africa with torrential rains that triggered flooding, the country's disaster agency said Monday.
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World
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Region
3/9/2023 8:39:48 PM
The United Nations said Thursday it had bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen.
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World
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International
3/5/2023 11:40:58 AM
The Greek prime minister on Sunday asked for forgiveness from the families of the 57 dead in the nation's worst rail disaster ahead of a major rally by students and rail workers in Athens.
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World
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International
3/3/2023 3:59:33 PM
Checks of all the human remains recovered so far from the scene of the deadliest train crash in Greece's history indicate the number of people killed in this week's rail disaster still stands at 57, authorities said Friday.
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World
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International
3/3/2023 2:52:29 PM
Greek police raided a train station Friday as part of their probe into the rail collision that killed at least 57 people, as the nation braced for new strikes and protests over the disaster.
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World
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International
3/2/2023 4:10:07 PM
Dozens of people were killed in Greece on Tuesday in a head-on collision of a freight train with a passenger train carrying over 350 people on board, the country's worst-ever rail disaster.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
3/2/2023 2:52:00 PM
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World
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Region
2/27/2023 1:29:34 PM
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey on Monday, with initial reports indicating that buildings were destroyed, Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) reported.
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World
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Region
2/25/2023 4:29:30 PM
Fears of another major earthquake have been rekindled in Istanbul since the February 6 disaster that hit Turkey and Syria, but a prominent Turkish seismologist has reassured the risk "hasn't increased".
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
2/21/2023 10:00:00 PM
The aftermath of the earthquake that struck northwestern Syria earlier this month has added to the suffering already caused by the country’s long-running civil war, writes Bassel Oudat in Damascus
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