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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
6/22/2022 5:53:11 PM
Representing a qualitative leap in local transportation, Egypt’s first monorail is set to operate by 2023, with its two lines extending for almost 100km, making it the longest monorail network in the world.
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World
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Region
6/22/2022 5:04:29 PM
After barely 12 months in office, the leaders of Israel's broad-based but severely weakened coalition government threw in the towel this week, saying they would dissolve parliament and hold new elections, the fifth in 3 1/2 years.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/21/2022 1:57:06 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. Or, in the worst case, even sooner.
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World
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Africa
6/18/2022 5:48:46 PM
The threat of war with neighboring Congo is simmering under the tidy surface of Rwanda's capital as the East African nation hosts the British prime minister and other world leaders next week for the Commonwealth summit.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/18/2022 10:30:38 AM
Russian hostilities in Ukraine is preventing grain from leaving the ``breadbasket of the world`` and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
6/16/2022 6:07:56 PM
Ukraine's request to join the European Union may advance Friday with a recommendation from the EU's executive arm that the war-torn country deserves to become a candidate for membership in the 27-nation bloc.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/26/2022 3:00:58 PM
Within a two-week span, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan caused a stir by throwing a wrench in Sweden and Finland's historic request to join NATO, lashing out at fellow alliance member Greece and announcing plans for a new incursion into Syria.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/17/2022 5:38:27 PM
The Ukrainian forces who made a determined last stand in a Mariupol steel mill against Russian troops were a mixture of seasoned soldiers, border guards, a controversial national guard regiment and volunteers who took up arms in the weeks before Russia's invasion.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
5/16/2022 8:18:36 PM
The US is set to remove five inactive extremist groups from its foreign terrorist organisations list, including Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya, which is blamed for terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds of policemen, civilians and tourists in Egypt.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/16/2022 3:02:35 PM
Finland and Sweden have signaled their intention to join NATO over Russia's war in Ukraine and things will move fast once they formally apply for membership in the world's biggest security alliance.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/15/2022 9:04:59 PM
With Finland and Sweden inching closer to applying for NATO membership amid Russia's war in Ukraine, the list of ``neutral'' or nonaligned countries in Europe appears poised to shrink.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/12/2022 1:54:56 PM
It's likely to be the quickest NATO enlargement ever and one that would redraw Europe's security map. Finnish leaders announced Thursday their belief that Finland should join the world's biggest military organization because of Russia's war in Ukraine. Sweden could soon follow suit.
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World
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International
5/9/2022 10:16:10 AM
There was little doubt about John Lee's election as Hong Kong's next leader.
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World
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International
5/7/2022 10:29:50 PM
The election of Sinn Fein as the biggest party in Northern Ireland's Assembly is a historic moment -- the first time an Irish nationalist party, rather than a British unionist one, has topped the voting.
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World
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International
5/2/2022 3:14:53 PM
Victorious over his far-right rival in last month's presidential vote, centrist Emmanuel Macron now faces a gathering challenge from the left in France's upcoming legislative elections.
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World
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International
4/28/2022 2:18:00 PM
If Elon Musk and Twitter get their way, the company will soon be privately held and under his control.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
4/27/2022 11:02:36 PM
Brittney Griner remains detained in Russia and it's unclear how an unexpected prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia that freed marine veteran Trevor Reed on Wednesday will affect the status of the WNBA star.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
4/27/2022 4:05:21 PM
Russia's Gazprom says it is halting natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, escalating tensions between the Kremlin and Europe over energy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine _ and adding new urgency to plans to reduce and then end the continent's dependence on Russia as a supplier of oil and gas.
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World
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International
4/26/2022 10:15:13 AM
Twitter's acceptance of Elon Musk's roughly $44 billion takeover bid brings the billionaire Tesla CEO one step closer to owning the social media platform.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
4/21/2022 1:54:57 PM
Europe is struggling to find ways to stop paying Russia $850 million a day for energy and hit the Kremlin's finances over its invasion of Ukraine. Leaders of the 27-member European Union are finding that reversing decades of dependence on Russian oil and natural gas is not a simple matter.
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