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World
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Africa
7/31/2024 11:42:09 AM
The World Bank has approved a $1.5 billion financial package to support cash-strapped Ethiopia's economic reform programme after officials loosened curbs on the local currency.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
7/30/2024 5:38:00 PM
Five people were killed and nine others, including Egyptian and Saudi nationals, injured as a boat tragically capsized in the Nile River in Cairo on Tuesday, as per local news reports.
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World
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Region
7/29/2024 6:16:15 PM
Israeli officials faced fierce protests from locals as they attended the funerals of young victims killed by a rocket strike at the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams.
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Business
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Economy
7/29/2024 5:58:00 PM
Potatoes are one of Egypt's strategic crops and a staple that Egyptians rely on, especially with the inflationary wave the country is experiencing and the low purchasing power resulting from local currency devaluation for the fourth time.
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World
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Africa
7/29/2024 12:35:16 PM
Ethiopia's central bank announced on Monday that it was easing curbs on its foreign exchange regime, a move which saw the value of the local currency slide by about 30 percent.
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Egypt
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Society
7/29/2024 11:31:46 AM
The third Egypt Media Forum will take place on 23-24 November and is expected to draw over 2,000 local and international journalists.
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World
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Africa
7/24/2024 9:26:23 PM
Tearful crowds gathered around a mud pit containing dead bodies Wednesday as volunteers dug for survivors of landslides that have killed 229 people and displaced thousands more in southern Ethiopia.
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World
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Africa
7/23/2024 6:27:45 PM
Using shovels or their bare hands, local residents on Tuesday searched desperately for survivors after a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia killed at least 229 people, the deadliest such disaster recorded in the Horn of Africa nation.
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World
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Africa
7/23/2024 11:18:01 AM
At least 55 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, according to a local official.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
7/21/2024 10:59:23 PM
The local market witnessed a surge in potato prices, ranging from EGP 13.5 to EGP 18.5 per kilo, on Saturday at El-Obour market, one of Egypt's largest wholesale fresh vegetable and fruit markets for consumers and traders.
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World
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International
7/18/2024 12:33:55 PM
China's leadership agreed on the need to "resolve risks" in real estate and local government debt while also boosting demand at a key political meeting that wrapped up Thursday, state media said.
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Egypt
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Society
7/18/2024 11:25:44 AM
Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Sherif Farouk said on Thursday that Egypt's reserve of local and imported wheat is enough for 6.9 months.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/16/2024 11:02:18 PM
Wastewater pumping stations in one of Gaza's main cities stopped working on Tuesday because fuel had run out, the local authority said, expressing fears that disease could rapidly spread.
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World
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Africa
7/16/2024 6:44:11 PM
At least 70 people, including nine soldiers and a soldier's wife, were killed when armed men attacked a village in western Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said, as violence intensifies between two rival communities.
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Opinion
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7/15/2024 9:50:42 PM
There are at least 55 ongoing wars around the world. Politicians have consistently failed to end the armed conflicts that are ravaging their societies, and the dangers have been multiplied by the fact that local wars no longer remain local.
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Business
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Economy
7/15/2024 11:10:11 AM
"Doctor, please write down an alternative medication for each type on the prescription" is a common plea among patients in Egypt now due to the severe shortage of medicines in the local market, intensifying daily and impacting both healthy and ill individuals.
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World
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Region
7/15/2024 9:12:33 AM
Nine people were killed in a powerful car bomb blast late Sunday at a cafe in the Somali capital Mogadishu that was packed with football fans watching the Euro 2024 final, local media said, citing police.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/14/2024 11:14:40 PM
Israeli warplanes on Sunday staged a fifth attack in eight days on a Gaza school sheltering war displaced, killing at least 12 Palestinians and wounding dozens, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported citing local sources.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
7/14/2024 3:46:24 PM
Egypt’s largest tobacco producer, Eastern Company, has raised the price of its local cigarette products by EGP 22 piasters, effective last Friday, according to a disclosure the company submitted to the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) published on Sunday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/13/2024 3:22:47 PM
An oil depot caught fire in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region Saturday following a Ukrainian drone attack in the early hours, local officials said, in the latest long-range strike by Kyiv’s forces on a border region.
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