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Business
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Economy
5/10/2022 3:47:00 PM
Egypt-based Paymob, a financial services for merchants platform, raised $50 million in Series B funding, which the platform will use to grow its product range, expanding in the Egyptian market as well as into new markets across the Middle East and Africa region.
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Business
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Economy
5/10/2022 12:19:11 PM
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) raised its projections for Egypt’s GDP growth for the current FY2021/22 to 5.7 percent — which ends in June — up from the 4.9 percent it projected in November before slowing down to 5 percent in FY2022/23 — which begins in July — according to the Regional Economic Prospects Report the bank released on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Defence
5/9/2022 9:28:30 PM
Egypt’s Defence and Military Production Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces General Mohamed Zaki met on Monday with Commander of the US Central Command (US CENTCOM) Michael E. Kurilla, where they discussed the latest developments in regional security issues, the Egyptian Armed Forces said.
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World
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International
5/8/2022 9:53:47 PM
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD suffered a stinging defeat at regional elections on Sunday, with the opposition conservatives securing a thumping win in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein a week before a bigger test.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
5/8/2022 5:09:33 PM
U.S. first lady Jill Biden made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine on Sunday, holding a surprise Mother's Day meeting with the nation's first lady, Olena Zelenskyy, as Russia presses its punishing war in the eastern regions.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/5/2022 9:51:56 PM
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed with French President Emmanuel Macron developments in the Ukraine crisis as well as Egypt’s scheduled hosting of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in November.
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World
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Africa
5/5/2022 6:18:16 PM
Defence chiefs from West Africa's ECOWAS bloc began a two-day meeting Thursday aimed at boosting military cooperation in a region that has suffered hundreds of attacks this year alone.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/5/2022 2:18:00 PM
A 500-million-euro ($530 million) Lithuanian-Polish natural gas transmission pipeline was inaugurated Thursday, completing another stage of regional independence from Russian energy sources.
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World
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International
5/5/2022 2:09:19 PM
Local and regional elections were being held across the UK on Thursday that could prove historic in Northern Ireland and heap further pressure on embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
5/3/2022 7:41:06 PM
Ukrainian civilians fleeing Russian-occupied parts of the country allege violence, extortion, and theft at the hands of Russian troops, not to mention daily humiliation at checkpoints.
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World
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International
5/3/2022 4:27:33 PM
Police in Armenia on Tuesday detained more than 200 anti-government protesters as opposition parties up pressure on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his handling of a territorial dispute with Azerbaijan.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
5/3/2022 2:51:32 PM
A top European Union official is joining the leaders of four Balkan countries on a tour Tuesday of liquefied natural gas facilities being built in northern Greece to challenge Russia's energy dominance in the region.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
4/30/2022 11:31:00 PM
Hollywood actress and U.N. humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, the Lviv regional governor said on Telegram.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
4/30/2022 4:57:00 PM
After nearly eight years of hard work, whether in fighting terrorism, restructuring the economy, rebuilding the infrastructure or confronting regional challenges, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi announced recently that he was about to launch a new “political dialogue that suits the notion of building the new republic”.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
4/30/2022 4:08:00 PM
Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund Jihad Azour discusses the findings of the World Regional Economic Outlook report for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
4/30/2022 4:06:00 PM
Al-Ahram Weekly talks to Roberta Gatti, World Bank chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa region, about projections for key Egyptian macroeconomic indices amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/30/2022 12:15:38 PM
Ukrainian forces fought to hold off Russian attempts to advance in the south and east, where the Kremlin is seeking to capture the country's industrial Donbas region, and a senior U.S. defense official said Moscow's offensive is going much slower than planned.
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World
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Africa
4/29/2022 5:51:15 PM
Ethiopia on Friday rejected as "lies" claims of withdrawal by Tigrayan rebels from a region neighbouring war-wracked Tigray and accused them of trying to "impede" the delivery of aid.
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World
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Africa
4/28/2022 11:00:00 PM
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday praised West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS for developing what he called a "decisive" anti-coup strategy.
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World
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Region
4/28/2022 11:11:43 AM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will to travel to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, his office announced, on the latest leg of Ankara's bridge-building efforts with regional rivals.
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