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World
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Region
5/24/2023 10:30:11 PM
Saudi Arabia and Canada will restore full diplomatic relations, the kingdom said Wednesday, following a 2018 dispute over human rights that saw Riyadh expel Ottawa's ambassador and freeze new trade.
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Business
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Economy
5/24/2023 7:07:55 PM
President Joe Biden offered to freeze government spending at current levels during crunch debt talks with Republicans, which would reduce the deficit by $1 trillion, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday.
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World
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International
5/17/2023 1:51:23 PM
Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said Wednesday that Russia had frozen in late April the bank accounts of its embassy in Moscow and consulate in Saint Petersburg.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/15/2023 8:00:00 PM
Sudan’s military chief ordered the freezing of all bank accounts belonging to a rival paramilitary force, the latest step in a fight for control of the resource-rich nation.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/20/2023 8:05:57 PM
Italy said Thursday it was seeking to freeze the assets of a Russian arrested in Milan at Washington's request who disappeared while under house arrest only to re-emerge in Russia.
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World
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Region
4/18/2023 3:50:00 PM
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Damascus on Tuesday, state media reported, ending more than a decade of diplomatic deep-freeze between the two countries.
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World
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Region
4/14/2023 1:43:45 PM
Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr, who wields great influence over national politics, said Friday he was "freezing" for a year his powerful movement over "sinful" practices among supporters.
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World
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Region
3/27/2023 3:01:05 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce a freeze on the government's judicial overhaul as his far-right government is facing more protests and a general strike on Monday against its controversial push to overhaul the justice system, Likud Party sources told Haartez newspaper.
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World
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Region
3/20/2023 5:14:40 PM
The UK on Monday sanctioned more senior officials of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including financiers and commanders, in its latest set of asset freezes and visa bans.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
3/10/2023 1:37:00 PM
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Al-Ahram Weekly looks into the rising number of Egyptian women opting to freeze their eggs.
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World
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Region
2/20/2023 10:20:09 AM
The Biden administration has convinced Israel and the Palestinian authorities to agree to a six-month freeze in Israeli settlement expansion to forestall a likely US veto of a contentious UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel for settlement expansion and demanded a halt to future activity.
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World
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Region
2/16/2023 10:21:50 AM
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to extend the arms embargo on Yemen's Houthi rebels and an asset freeze and travel ban on Houthi leaders and top officials until Nov. 15.
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World
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Region
1/26/2023 5:33:13 PM
Lebanon's central bank said Thursday it has frozen the accounts of a foreign exchange trader and his sons, after the US sanctioned them this week over links to Hezbollah.
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World
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Region
1/23/2023 3:25:02 PM
The EU on Monday placed 37 more Iranian officials and entities on an asset-freeze and visa-ban blacklist over Tehran's bloody crackdown on protesters, officials said.
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World
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International
12/26/2022 9:52:26 AM
The deep freeze from a deadly winter storm that walloped much of the United States will continue into the week as people in western New York deal with massive snow drifts that snarled emergency vehicles and travelers across the country see cancelled flights and dangerous roads.
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World
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International
12/25/2022 8:27:42 AM
Millions of people hunkered down in a deep freeze overnight and early morning to ride out the frigid storm that has killed at least 18 people across the United States, trapping some residents inside homes with heaping snow drifts and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
12/22/2022 7:13:00 PM
An Egyptian court has ordered the lifting the asset freeze order on the funds and properties of political activist and former diplomat Massoum Marzouk, according to a statement from the Public prosecution.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/7/2022 2:22:00 PM
Russia was looking to stall the fighting in Ukraine over the winter in order to build up its forces for a renewed assault next year, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 9:21:10 PM
Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua welcomed Saturday the resumption of formal talks with US counterpart John Kerry as "very constructive", as the world's two top polluters ended a freeze in cooperation.
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Sports
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World
10/28/2022 7:14:45 PM
Media group beIN said on Friday it had made a payment to La Liga for television rights two weeks after the Spanish league took out a court injunction to freeze 50 million euros ($48.5 million) of assets after the money was not paid.
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