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World
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International
9/22/2023 6:15:50 PM
The French port city of Marseille, for centuries a multiethnic and multifaith melting pot, awaited the arrival Friday of Pope Francis, who plans to amplify his call for the Mediterranean region of Europe to be a place of welcome for migrants.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/22/2023 1:25:22 PM
Ukrainian forces have mounted coordinated assaults on several villages in the eastern Donetsk region and are heavily shelling the city of Bakhmut, a Russian-installed official in the region said Friday.
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World
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Africa
9/22/2023 12:45:43 PM
Attacks in northern Mali have more than doubled since U.N. peacekeepers completed the first phase of their withdrawal last month after a decade of fighting Islamic extremists, resulting in more than 150 deaths.
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World
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Africa
9/22/2023 12:30:46 PM
A prominent peace forum in Ethiopia has been postponed as clashes between the federal government and fighters from a major ethnic group continue to destabilize the region.
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World
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International
9/21/2023 1:21:14 PM
Armenia warned the United Nations Thursday that Azerbaijan was carrying out "ethnic cleansing" and committing a "crime against humanity" as it regained control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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World
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Region
9/20/2023 11:04:01 PM
Azerbaijan claimed full control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region Wednesday after local Armenian forces there agreed to lay down their weapons following the latest outbreak of fighting in the decades-long separatist conflict.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/20/2023 8:28:34 PM
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry called on Wednesday for international cooperation to support the humanitarian response to the crisis in Sudan.
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World
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International
9/20/2023 12:51:13 PM
A cease-fire agreement with Azerbaijan was reached on Wednesday to end two days of fighting in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region, local authorities and Azerbaijani officials said.
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World
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International
9/20/2023 12:38:52 PM
Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday raised fears that another full-scale conflict with Armenia could be underway, less than three years after a war that killed more than 6,000 people.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
9/20/2023 12:13:00 PM
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still the main and most pressing issue in the Middle East, and at their meeting on reviving the Middle East Peace Process held on the sidelines of the 78th UN General Assembly meetings in New York (UNGA78), Egyptian, Arab and European ministers reiterated that the two-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace in the region.
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World
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International
9/20/2023 10:23:46 AM
Russia and the United Nations called Wednesday for an end to fighting in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, after the launch of a military operation against separatist forces.
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World
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Region
9/20/2023 9:44:23 AM
Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank and unrest in the Gaza Strip have killed six Palestinians, Palestinian health officials said Wednesday, the latest spike in a wave of violence that has roiled the region for more than a year.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/20/2023 1:00:00 AM
On the sideline of the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 78) in New York, Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry met with his counterparts from Canada, Croatia, and Sierra Leone on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Sudan, bilateral relations, and the global economic crisis.
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World
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International
9/19/2023 9:17:30 PM
Azerbaijan's close ally Turkey on Tuesday defended Baku's military operation against Nagorno-Karabakh, saying it was addressing "justified" security concerns in the ethnically Armenian breakaway region.
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World
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International
9/19/2023 6:08:01 PM
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday slammed calls for a "coup" in Armenia, as protesters gathered outside government offices in Yerevan, hours after Azerbaijan launched a military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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World
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Africa
9/19/2023 4:45:15 PM
U.N.-backed human rights experts say war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace accord signed nearly a year ago to end a conflict that engulfed the country’s northern Tigray region. The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence — mostly women and girls, they found.
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World
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International
9/19/2023 4:18:55 PM
Azerbaijan on Tuesday launched a military operation in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region and demanded the total withdrawal of Armenian forces from the disputed mountainous territory as a precondition for peace.
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Business
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Tech
9/19/2023 1:10:00 PM
The Egyptian company eCards signed an agreement with Emirati e-payment company Network International to support expansion in the production, customization, and processing of smart financial cards in various regional markets.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/18/2023 11:37:55 PM
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan discussed several issues during their meeting in Abu Dhabi on Monday, according to a statement by the Egyptian presidency.
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World
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Africa
9/18/2023 3:19:02 PM
Serious violations are continuing in Ethiopia despite a peace deal in the north, UN rights experts said Monday, warning the conflict was spreading across the country and putting regional stability at risk.
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