World
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International
1/28/2023 2:15:48 PM
At least 166 people have died in a wave of bitterly cold weather sweeping Afghanistan, an official said Saturday, as extreme conditions heaped misery on the poverty-stricken nation.
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World
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International
1/20/2023 11:14:04 AM
A massive fire broke out inside one of the last remaining slums in South Korea's capital on Friday, forcing 500 people to flee their homes ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, authorities said.
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World
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International
1/16/2023 9:46:08 AM
Food companies making big profits as inflation has surged should face windfall taxes to help cut global inequality, anti-poverty group Oxfam said Monday as the World Economic Forum's annual meeting gets underway.
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Business
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Economy
1/10/2023 6:16:54 PM
The global economy will slow "perilously close" to a recession this year, led by weaker growth in all the world's top economies _ the United States, Europe and China, the World Bank warned on Tuesday.
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World
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International
12/25/2022 12:00:05 PM
The US has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions.
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World
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International
12/24/2022 9:55:19 PM
Recalling Jesus' birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those ``ravenous'' for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
12/19/2022 4:50:16 PM
The Russia-Ukraine war is not only leading to the deaths and displacement of children in Ukraine, but is also pushing millions of others into poverty, writes Gihan Shahine
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World
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Africa
12/12/2022 8:39:06 PM
"Everything is increasing except our wages," Ethiopian porter Zerihun told AFP, summing up the financial crisis facing the Horn of Africa nation as it reels from skyrocketing inflation and an economic slowdown.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/7/2022 9:55:00 AM
Africa is the continent that contributes least to the causes of climate change — it is responsible for less than four per cent of global emissions — yet it remains one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts. Its exposure is driven mainly by low levels of socioeconomic growth, poverty, and the absence of resources to mitigate the repercussions of climate change and recover from the worst of its effects.
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World
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International
10/31/2022 12:47:41 PM
Four years ago, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's reputation and political future were in tatters. After an unlikely rise from poverty to union leader to Brazil's presidency, the man universally known as Lula had landed in prison.
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Egypt
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Society
10/17/2022 5:30:47 PM
The poverty rate in Egypt dropped to 29.7 percent in 2019/20, compared to 32.5 percent in 2018/17, the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced on Monday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
10/13/2022 10:59:00 PM
Experts at a Cairo seminar this week concurred that climate action must be mindful of poverty reduction and development
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World
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:48:37 PM
Around 909,000 people have reportedly been affected by flooding in South Sudan, the UN's emergency response agency said Tuesday, more than doubling estimates released last month as torrential rains ravage crops and destroy homes.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/8/2022 4:27:46 PM
African integration and trade liberalisation is capable of stopping African “boats of death” in the Mediterranean and reducing poverty in the continent, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Wamkele Mene said Friday.
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World
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International
10/8/2022 3:23:52 PM
The back-to-back shipwrecks of migrant smuggling boats off Greece have once again put the spotlight on the dangers of the Mediterranean migration route, the risks migrants and refugees are willing to take and the political infighting that has thwarted a safe European response to people fleeing war, poverty and climate change.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
9/27/2022 10:06:10 PM
The Decent Life initiative continues to improve living standards in Egypt’s most impoverished rural areas.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/27/2022 9:17:45 PM
The Russian-Ukrainian war continues to have serious economic impacts throughout the world, affecting food and energy prices and threatening increasing poverty rates and political disorder, writes Amr Wagdy
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Egypt
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Health
9/27/2022 5:37:21 PM
2.6 million Egyptian women wish to postpone pregnancy but lack awareness and resources to do so, said Deputy Minister of Health and Population Tarek Tawfik, citing intense poverty, physical isolation and a lack of female doctors as the key drivers.
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World
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International
9/20/2022 11:24:41 AM
Warning that the world is in "great peril,'' the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must tackle conflicts and climate catastrophes, increasing poverty and inequality, and address divisions among major powers that have gotten worse since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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World
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Region
8/29/2022 4:58:10 PM
The granddaughter of a former Lebanese president Monday announced her bid for the cash-strapped country's upcoming presidential elections on a platform critical of the Iran-backed Shia group Hezbollah.
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