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Region
8/9/2022 1:38:10 PM
The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group issued a warning Tuesday to archenemy Israel over the two countries' maritime border dispute, saying that ``any arm'' that reaches to steal Lebanon's wealth ``will be cut off.''
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World
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International
8/9/2022 11:51:44 AM
Taiwan's foreign minister said Tuesday that China is using military drills to rehearse an invasion of the self-governing island democracy, while Taiwan's military began its own live-fire exercises in a show of readiness to thwart off a potential attack.
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Business
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Tech
8/4/2022 6:31:06 PM
More than 700 Amazon warehouse workers in England staged a protest Thursday in a dispute over pay, in the latest sign of workplace friction stoked by Britain's cost of living crisis and a growing discontent among employees over wage and working conditions.
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World
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International
8/2/2022 5:14:26 PM
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday night despite threats from Beijing of serious consequences, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China.
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World
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Region
7/31/2022 4:14:34 PM
US envoy Amos Hochstein arrived in Beirut Sunday to push talks to resolve a bitter maritime border dispute between Lebanon and Israel over Mediterranean waters with offshore gas fields.
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World
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International
7/31/2022 3:46:11 PM
Pilots at Lufthansa, Europe's biggest airline, have overwhelmingly backed a strike to press for higher pay, their union said Sunday.
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World
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Region
7/31/2022 11:39:52 AM
Lebanon's Hezbollah on Sunday aired drone footage of Israeli ships in a disputed gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, highlighting the tension at the center of US-mediated maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel.
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Business
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Economy
7/27/2022 6:42:27 PM
Talks between Egypt and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on an Egyptian request for a new loan have achieved "great progress," and the government is still working to resolve disputed points with the international lender, Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait told Al-Arabiya on Wednesday.
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World
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International
7/27/2022 11:37:20 AM
Britain's railway network ground to a crawl on Wednesday after 40,000 staff walked off the job in a dispute over jobs, pay and working conditions. Train companies said only about a fifth of services across the country were due to run.
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World
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Region
7/27/2022 10:19:50 AM
A dispute between Iraq and Turkey over a recent deadly attack in Iraq's northern Kurdish region escalated at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.
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World
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International
7/27/2022 9:58:10 AM
Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will speak Thursday, according to a U.S. official, their first conversation in four months coming amid new tension between Washington and Beijing over China's claims on Taiwan.
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World
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International
7/25/2022 1:31:33 PM
Taiwan's capital staged air raid drills Monday and its military mobilized for routine defense exercises, coinciding with concerns over a forceful Chinese response to a possible visit to the island by U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
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World
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Region
7/19/2022 5:50:29 PM
Thousands of Sudan's Hausa people protested in multiple cities Tuesday, demanding justice for dozens of comrades killed in a deadly land dispute with a rival ethnic group in the country's south.
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World
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International
7/16/2022 5:44:40 PM
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Saturday held their first bilateral talks since the 2020 war between the arch-foes for control of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, officials said.
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World
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International
7/13/2022 1:27:47 PM
The U.S. Navy on Wednesday sailed a destroyer close to China-controlled islands in the South China Sea in what Washington said was a patrol aimed at asserting freedom of navigation through the strategic seaway.
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World
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International
7/12/2022 12:30:41 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on China to comply with a 2016 arbitration ruling that invalidated Beijing's vast territorial claims in the South China Sea and warned that Washington is obligated to defend treaty ally Philippines if its forces, vessels or aircraft come under attack in the disputed waters.
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World
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Region
7/4/2022 11:23:59 PM
The United Nations envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, was on a visit to Morocco on Monday but has cancelled a planned trip to the disputed territory itself, the UN said.
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World
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International
7/4/2022 2:17:39 PM
Japan protested to Beijing after spotting Chinese and Russian warships just outside its territorial waters around the disputed East China Sea islands on Monday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/3/2022 5:16:09 PM
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg affirmed to his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry his country's support to Egypt's right to its share of the Nile River waters as the pair exchanged views on the Grand thiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute in a meeting in Cairo on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
7/2/2022 10:20:14 PM
Allegations that Ethiopian forces captured and killed Sudanese troops in a contested area along their border -- charges denied by Addis Ababa -- have revived a decades-old dispute over the fertile land.
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