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International
8/4/2022 11:29:37 AM
China is staging live-fire military drills in six self-declared zones surrounding Taiwan in response to a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island Beijing claims as its own territory.
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International
8/2/2022 3:44:15 AM
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped Osama bin Laden plot the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and ensured al-Qaida survived and spread in the years after.
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World
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Region
7/28/2022 9:34:00 PM
The followers of the influential populist Shia cleric came by the thousands to storm Iraq's parliament. Just as quickly, the protesters dispersed at his command.
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Business
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Economy
7/26/2022 9:14:27 PM
By one common definition, the US economy is on the cusp of a recession. Yet that definition isn't the one that counts.
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World
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Region
7/22/2022 7:09:00 PM
After artillery bombardment killed nine people in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Baghdad called for a withdrawal of Turkish forces and said Ankara should handle its "domestic problems" with PKK rebels far from Iraq's borders.
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Economy
7/20/2022 8:16:55 PM
Europe faced an energy crisis even before the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany went offline for regular maintenance.
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World
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International
7/18/2022 9:01:07 PM
Much of Italy was calling Monday for the blood of the Five Star Movement, accusing the populist party of torpedoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi's government in a bid to save itself from oblivion.
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Economy
7/17/2022 11:25:04 AM
The euro's plunge against the dollar, triggered by the Ukraine war and mounting risks to the EU economy, has driven the two currencies to parity for the first time in two decades.
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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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Business
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Economy
7/8/2022 6:02:00 PM
The euro fell below $1.02 this week to its lowest level in 20 years. Here are the concrete consequences of the decline in the value of the single European currency.
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Economy
7/6/2022 7:00:24 PM
It's not a summer heat wave that's making European leaders and businesses sweat. It's fear that Russia's manipulation of natural gas supplies will lead to an economic and political crisis next winter.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
7/2/2022 2:36:00 PM
Egypt will inaugurate its first light rail transit (LRT) system in July to be the first mass transportation means linking the New Administrative Capital to Greater Cairo following its pilot operation since January 2022.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/28/2022 4:00:36 PM
Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution more than a century ago, further alienating the country from the global financial system following sanctions imposed over its war in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/28/2022 2:39:14 PM
Russia appears to have defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the U.S. and its allies are taking aim at the former Soviet Union's second-largest export industry after energy, gold.
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Military
6/28/2022 8:45:17 AM
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shocked NATO back to first principles.
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World
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International
6/27/2022 11:18:30 AM
In 1975, leaders of the world's wealthy democracies gathered to deal with an energy crisis sparked by a war and rampant inflation. Those same sore points are bedeviling their successors representing 46% of the global economy at this week's Group of Seven summit, with high consumer and energy prices threatening to trigger recessions in the U.S. and Europe.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
6/26/2022 11:55:08 PM
Last week, Egypt and Greece signed an agreement to connect the two countries by extending a branch from a major subsea cable system, which is currently being laid across the Mediterranean Sea.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/26/2022 8:32:41 PM
Russia is poised to default on its foreign debt for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, further alienating the country from the global financial system following sanctions imposed over its war in Ukraine.
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World
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International
6/26/2022 11:32:24 AM
Germany is hosting this year's meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven leading economies in the Bavarian resort of Elmau. Before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia triggered a cascade of crises over food, energy and international security, the main focus of the meeting was meant to be on climate change.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
6/22/2022 9:48:49 PM
New tensions between Moscow and the West are rising after Lithuania decided to halt the transport of some goods through its territory to the Russian region of Kaliningrad as part of European Union sanctions on the Kremlin.
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