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Business
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International
7/25/2023 3:00:18 PM
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region need to drastically increase their investments in disaster warning systems and other tools to counter rising risks from climate change, a United Nations report said Tuesday.
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World
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Region
7/25/2023 1:40:37 PM
The United Nations said on Tuesday it had begun transferring one million barrels of oil from a rusting super-tanker off war-torn Yemen, in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
7/24/2023 6:19:22 PM
The number of people entering Ethiopia from conflict-affected Sudan has exceeded 68,000, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Monday.
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World
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International
7/24/2023 5:36:24 PM
A three-day United Nations summit opened in Rome on Monday aimed at tackling a "broken" global food system where millions are starving, billions are obese and the planet is suffering.
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World
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Region
7/20/2023 8:47:04 PM
United Nations experts on Thursday slammed a Libyan government policy effectively blocking women and girls from travelling abroad without a male guardian as discriminatory and a violation of their rights.
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World
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Region
7/19/2023 10:27:53 AM
The United Nations food agency said Tuesday it will reduce monthly cash aid for 120,000 Syrian refugees living in two camps in Jordan because of what it described as an “unprecedented funding crisis.”
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/18/2023 2:50:58 PM
Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations celebrated the 75th Anniversary of the UN's Peacekeeping Operations in a joint ceremony at the Tahrir Palace in Cairo on Monday.
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World
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Region
7/15/2023 10:18:20 PM
The United Nations agency responsible for overseeing humanitarian aid has described conditions placed by the Syrian government on aid deliveries from Turkey to northwest Syria as “unacceptable.”
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/15/2023 3:26:07 PM
Agreements that the United Nations and Turkey brokered with Ukraine and Russia to allow food and fertilizer to get from the warring nations to parts of the world where millions are going hungry have eased concerns over global food security. But they face increasing risks.
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World
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Region
7/15/2023 9:50:08 AM
The United Nations is concerned about "unacceptable conditions" set by Damascus for allowing aid to flow through its Bab al-Hawa crossing to rebel-held areas in northwest Syria, according to a document reviewed Friday by AFP.
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World
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International
7/14/2023 3:30:38 PM
Some 289 children are known to have died in the first half of 2023 while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, the United Nations said Friday.
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World
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Region
7/13/2023 10:07:40 PM
Syrians in the country's last rebel enclave expressed alarm after the United Nations Security Council failed to renew an aid delivery mechanism to the area, imperilling critical humanitarian assistance.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/12/2023 5:46:44 PM
Concerns are growing that Russia will not extend a United Nations-brokered deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to parts of the world struggling with hunger, with ships no longer heading to the war-torn country's Black Sea ports and food exports dwindling.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
7/11/2023 8:50:56 PM
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World
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Region
7/11/2023 7:15:04 PM
Russia blocked a nine-month extension of a key Syria aid route at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that allows for the delivery of aid overland from Turkey into rebel-held areas of Syria.
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World
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Region
7/11/2023 10:39:11 AM
Negotiations continued at the United Nations late Monday as officials scrambled to reach a last-minute agreement on extending vital cross-border aid to millions of people in Syria.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
7/9/2023 11:16:46 AM
Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a "full-scale civil war" that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warned Sunday, after an air strike on a residential area killed around two dozen civilians.
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World
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International
7/9/2023 10:00:16 AM
North Korea on Sunday slammed the United Nations' nuclear watchdog for approving Japan's plan to discharge treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/8/2023 7:11:52 PM
The ministerial conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which was held in Rome from 1- 7 July, unanimously elected Egypt to become a member of the organization’s council for the next three years until 2026.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/8/2023 2:16:28 PM
The United Nations condemned the civilian cost inflicted by Russia’s war in Ukraine as the fighting passed the 500-day mark with no end to the conflict in sight.
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