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  • New Zealand registers first monkeypox case

    Date: 2022-07-09 15:13:47 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:43 - ID:9664155

    WELLINGTON, July 9 (MENA) - New Zealand has registered its first case of monkeypox tonight, NZ Herald reported. The person is in their 30s, lives in Auckland and has recently returned from overseas travel in a country with reported cases of ....

  • Singapore reports 8,659 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2022-07-09 13:33:39 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:31 - ID:9664062

    SINGAPORE, July 9 (MENA) - Singapore reported 8,659 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, Channel News Asia quoted the Singaporean Ministry of Health as saying. Only one fatality was recorded, taking the death toll from coronavirus to 1,428, the ....

  • Pope 'deeply saddened' by 'senseless' assassination of Shinzo Abe

    Date: 2022-07-09 13:24:40 GMT - Vatican - World - SN:30 - ID:9664076

    VATICAN, July 9 (MENA) - Pope Francis has offered his "heartfelt condolences" to the loved ones of Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, in the wake of his assassination on Friday, CNN reported. Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal ....

  • Canadian PM greets Muslims on Eidul Adha

    Date: 2022-07-09 13:08:57 GMT - Canada - World - SN:26 - ID:9663986

    OTTAWA, July 9 (MENA) – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greeted the Muslims in Canada and worldwide on Eidul Adha. “Today, Muslims in Canada and around the world mark the end of the annual Hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca, one of the five ....

  • Sri Lanka leader flees as protesters storm home

    Date: 2022-07-09 12:47:37 GMT - Sri Lanka - World - SN:25 - ID:9663924

    COLOMBO, July 9 (MENA) - Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence on Saturday shortly before protesters, angered by an unprecedented economic crisis, stormed and overran the compound, France 24 reported. Huge crowds ....

  • Sri Lanka prime minister summons emergency party leaders meeting after street unrest

    Date: 2022-07-09 11:23:28 GMT - Sri Lanka - World - SN:15 - ID:9663867

    COLOMBO, July 9 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Prime Minister on Saturday summoned an emergency meeting of political party leaders after protesters stormed the president's house in the commercial capital Colombo amid growing anger over the government's ....

  • Body of assassinated former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe arrives back in Tokyo

    Date: 2022-07-09 07:51:20 GMT - Japan - World - SN:9 - ID:9663632

    TOKYO, July 9 (MENA) – The body of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived back at his home in Tokyo on Saturday, a day after he was assassinated in a daylight shooting, sending a nation unaccustomed to gun violence into a state of shock ....

  • US seeks to drag out conflict in Ukraine by supplying it with new weapons – Russian Embassy

    Date: 2022-07-09 07:39:54 GMT - Russia - World - SN:8 - ID:9663599

    MOSCOW, July 9 (MENA) – The United States keeps supplying Ukraine with more weapons, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), because it wants to drag out the conflict at any cost, TASS reported. The Russian Embassy in the ....

  • India reports 18,840 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2022-07-09 07:23:39 GMT - India - World - SN:7 - ID:9663601

    NEW DELHI, July 9 (MENA) – India recorded 18,840 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 43,604,394, Xinhua reported. A total of 454,778 COVID-19 tests were conducted across the country in the past 24 hours, showed data ....

  • US announces $400 mln in additional security assistance for Ukraine

    Date: 2022-07-08 23:10:00 GMT - USA - World - SN:83 - ID:9663433

    WASHINGTON, July 8 (MENA) - The Biden administration will provide Ukraine with four more high mobility artillery rocket systems in the latest security assistance package, according to a senior defense official, CNN reported Friday. A senior US ....

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