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Business
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Tech
5/23/2022 5:30:29 PM
Mohamed El-Shinawi, advisor to the Minister of Higher Education and co-chair of the PRIMA foundation, spoke to Ahram Online about the North-South cooperation between Mediterranean countries to tackle the challenging issues of food shortage, water management and clean energy.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
5/22/2022 5:42:43 PM
Fears over global food shortages as the Ukraine war grinds on is spurring calls for a safe corridor for ships to exit the Black Sea, but the logistics are daunting and would need Russian cooperation.
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World
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International
5/22/2022 5:25:58 PM
Davos _ the hub of an elite annual gathering in the Swiss Alps _ is back, more than two years after the coronavirus pandemic kept its business gurus, political leaders and high-minded activists away. There's no shortage of urgent issues for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting to tackle.
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World
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Africa
5/14/2022 8:01:27 PM
A top United Nations humanitarian official has raised concern about people going hungry in a remote part of northern Kenya, joining calls for the international community to commit more resources to address the wider region's drought crisis.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
5/14/2022 6:26:54 PM
India banned wheat exports without government approval Saturday after its hottest March on record hit production, in a blow to countries reeling from supply shortages and soaring prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Sports
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Talents Abroad
5/13/2022 2:43:16 PM
Egyptian Liverpool star Mohamed Salah was included in the shortlist of the 2021-22 Premier League (PL) Player of the Season award.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/12/2022 7:30:34 PM
The UN's top human rights body has overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on its investigators to specifically look into possible rights abuses and violations in northern Ukraine shortly after Russia's invasion.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
5/11/2022 6:36:10 PM
Shortly following news of the death of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by alleged Israeli gunfire in the West Bank, Arab artists took to social media to express their sorrow and condemn the killing.
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Business
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Economy
5/4/2022 8:19:49 PM
The Federal Reserve intensified its fight against the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by a half-percentage point Wednesday - its most aggressive move since 2000 - and signaling further large rate hikes to come.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
4/28/2022 11:41:21 PM
Acclaimed Egyptian film director Yousry Nasrallah has been unveiled as the jury chairman of the Short Films competition of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, which will take place between 17 and 28 May.
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World
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International
4/28/2022 11:36:02 AM
Businesses were closed, teachers absent and public transportation interrupted as Sri Lankans heeded a call for a general strike Thursday to pressure the president to step down over a growing economic and political crisis.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/25/2022 1:52:00 PM
Two months into the war in Ukraine, military experts say they have been shocked about how ill-prepared Russia has been in its invasion of its pro-Western neighbour.
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Business
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Economy
4/24/2022 1:49:08 PM
Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has affirmed Egypt’s long and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings at B/B, S&P announced on Saturday.
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World
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Region
4/20/2022 4:55:17 PM
Child vaccination rates in Lebanon have dropped by more than 30 percent, compounding a health crisis marked by drug shortages and an exodus of trained professionals, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
4/20/2022 1:38:33 PM
European car sales sank in March as Russia's invasion of Ukraine added more problems to a sector already struggling with shortages of semiconductors, industry data showed Wednesday.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
4/12/2022 12:11:02 PM
Short film ‘18/11’ won the Gold Award for Best Student Film and Silver Award for Best Short Film in the Fiction Category at the sixth edition of the One Earth Awards.
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World
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International
4/10/2022 5:20:36 PM
Sri Lankan protesters occupied the entrance to the president's office for a second day on Sunday, demanding Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign over the debt-ridden country's worst economic crisis in memory.
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Books
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News
4/7/2022 3:04:40 PM
The International Booker Prize announced on Thursday, the six books in contention for this year’s prize, which celebrates fiction from around the world, translated into English.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
4/6/2022 10:27:56 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was clearly a miscalculation and will shorten his time in office, a top ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Wednesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
4/5/2022 2:30:02 PM
The Kremlin on Tuesday called mass expulsions of Russian diplomats by a number of European countries a "short-sighted move" that will only complicate communication.
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