World
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War in Ukraine
3/26/2023 4:18:56 PM
Ukraine's government on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to “counter the Kremlin's nuclear blackmail” after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus.
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World
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War in Ukraine
3/24/2023 11:30:28 AM
A Russian strike on a humanitarian support centre in an eastern Ukraine town killed five people, emergency services said on Friday, as Moscow's forces push to capture the entire industrial Donetsk region.
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World
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Region
3/20/2023 11:28:02 AM
The Kuwait Oil Company declared a "state of emergency" on Monday following an oil spill on land, but said no injuries or disruption to production had been reported.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
3/13/2023 7:31:18 PM
wo large banks that cater to the tech industry have collapsed after a bank run, government agencies are taking emergency measures to backstop the financial system, and President Joe Biden is reassuring Americans that the money they have in banks is safe.
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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
2/19/2023 1:42:58 PM
The group Doctors Without Borders called Sunday for the "urgent scaling up" of earthquake aid to northwest Syria as it delivered a convoy laden with emergency assistance.
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World
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Region
2/12/2023 12:59:04 PM
An earthquake measuring 3.7 degrees struck the city of Kahramanmaras on Sunday, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said.
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World
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Region
2/10/2023 1:17:41 PM
Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people, some almost unscathed, from the rubble, four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 20,000.
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World
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Region
2/9/2023 10:07:51 PM
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and war-torn Syria on Monday has killed more than 19,000 people in the two countries. Emergency crews are still searching for survivors but in some areas work is now underway to demolish unsteady buildings.
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World
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Region
2/9/2023 4:23:06 PM
France on Thursday promised 12 million euros (almost $13 million) in emergency aid to Syrians after the earthquake that hit Turkey and neighboring Syria earlier this week.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/7/2023 11:18:00 PM
The deadliest earthquake this century, which hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, had already claimed more than 5000 lives by the time Al-Ahram Weekly went to print. The figures are expected to continue rising, with every minute passing, meaning less hope of survivors among the thousands buried under the rubble.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/7/2023 11:08:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued on Tuesday his directives to send five military planes carrying emergency medical aid to Turkey and Syria to contribute to relief efforts following the devastating earthquake that killed more than 5,400 in both countries on Monday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
2/7/2023 11:06:06 PM
A High Emergency State Security Court sentenced on Tuesday a man to death and 11 others to life in prison over various terror charges in the 2017 case dubbed by the media as the 'Daesh Al-Omraniya cell case'.
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World
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Region
2/7/2023 6:33:31 PM
Search teams and emergency aid from around the world poured into Turkey and Syria on Tuesday as rescuers working in freezing temperatures dug - sometimes with their bare hands - through the remains of buildings flattened by a powerful earthquake. The death toll soared above 5,300 and was still expected to rise.
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World
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Region
2/7/2023 3:08:32 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday declared a three-month state of emergency in 10 southeastern provinces hit by a major earthquake that has claimed thousands of lives.
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World
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Region
2/7/2023 12:12:26 PM
Up to 23 million people could be affected by the massive earthquake that has killed thousands in Turkey and Syria, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/30/2023 3:57:46 PM
Three years to the day after the World Health Organization sounded the highest level of global alert over Covid-19, it said on Monday the pandemic remains an international emergency.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/27/2023 4:59:43 PM
The World Health Organization's emergency committee on Covid-19 was meeting Friday to discuss whether the pandemic still merits the highest level of global alert.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
1/22/2023 6:30:49 PM
A Cairo High Emergency State Security Criminal Court sentenced on Sunday six men to death and one other to life on terror charges.
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World
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International
1/19/2023 5:22:52 PM
Emergency teams in Serbia are searching for two people who were swept away by a swollen river in a southwestern town, state RTS television reported on Thursday.
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