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World
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Africa
7/29/2023 4:07:52 PM
General Abdourahamane Tiani, the chief of Niger's powerful presidential guard who took power after a military coup, is an army veteran who has foiled similar uprisings in the restive West African nation.
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World
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International
7/7/2023 12:36:50 PM
Russia’s rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin walked free from prosecution for his June 24 armed mutiny, and it's still unclear if anyone will face any charges in the aborted uprising against military leaders or for the deaths of the soldiers killed in it.
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World
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Region
7/5/2023 2:29:17 PM
Airstrikes targeting Palestinians in a crowded residential area. Armored bulldozers plowing through narrow streets, crushing cars and piling up debris. Protesters burning tires. A mounting death toll.
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World
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International
6/26/2023 6:47:09 PM
The leader of the Wagner mercenary group defended his short-lived insurrection in an audio statement Monday, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made his first public appearance since the uprising that demanded his ouster, in a video aimed at projecting a sense of order after the country’s most serious political crisis in decades.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/25/2023 5:15:14 PM
Russia's foreign ministry said Sunday that Beijing had backed Moscow's efforts to counter a short-lived armed uprising led by the head of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/24/2023 6:39:48 PM
Russia's close ally Belarus said Saturday that the armed insurrection underway by the Wagner mercenary group was a "gift" to Western countries, warning the uprising could spell "disaster".
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/24/2023 5:35:37 PM
Once a low-profile businessman who benefited from having President Vladimir Putin as a powerful patron, Yevgeny Prigozhin moved into the global spotlight with Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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World
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International
6/20/2023 7:49:05 PM
The French government said Tuesday that it would shut down an activist climate group over a series of recent demonstrations including one that led to fierce clashes with police over a controversial irrigation project.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
6/6/2023 9:05:04 PM
Since the Arab Spring wave of popular uprisings in 2011, several key Arab countries have practically disintegrated, with competing governments and armed militias fighting against each other for control.
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World
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Region
1/30/2023 9:04:59 PM
Just 11.4 percent of Tunisian voters took part in a second round of elections for the toothless legislature, the electoral board said Monday in a final figure.
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World
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International
1/21/2023 9:17:33 PM
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fired Brazil's army chief Saturday amid concerns over threats to the country's democracy following the Jan. 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters.
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World
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International
1/14/2023 10:08:39 PM
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday authorized adding former President Jair Bolsonaro in its investigation into who incited the Jan. 8 riot in the nation's capital, as part of a broader crackdown to hold responsible parties to account.
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World
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Region
1/11/2023 8:39:39 PM
Brazil's capital prepared for the possibility of more violent demonstrations Wednesday by people seeking to overturn the presidential election, with local security officials blocking access to buildings trashed four days earlier by a horde of rioters.
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Egypt
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Society
10/25/2022 1:50:29 PM
High profile lawyer Farid El-Dib, who represented former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons in several cases following the January 2011 popular uprising, passed away at the age of 79 after a long illness, his daughter announced on Tuesday.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
5/26/2022 2:53:56 PM
The former president of the Louvre museum in Paris has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of Egyptian archaeological treasures that investigators suspect were spirited out of the country during the Arab Spring uprisings, a French judicial source said Thursday.
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World
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Africa
2/3/2022 6:03:16 PM
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visited northern Mozambique on Thursday, supporting the government's latest effort to reassure neighbours and investors that an Islamist uprising is under control.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/23/2021 12:52:00 PM
Three challenges still stand in the way of democratic change in the region in the wake of the grassroots uprisings of the Arab Spring.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/19/2021 11:22:09 PM
A new book details how the Obama administration secretly supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood across the Middle East in the wake of the 2011 Arab uprisings, writes Hany Ghoraba
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World
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International
9/7/2021 9:21:30 AM
Myanmar's military seized power in February from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The country has been wracked by unrest ever since, with a low-level insurrection in many urban areas
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World
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International
8/11/2021 4:34:53 PM
Amruddin Wali, a member of the Kunduz provincial council, said soldiers, police and uprising forces 'surrendered to the Taliban with all their military gear'
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