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  • India sends team to help with deadly Afghanistan earthquake

    Date: 2022-06-24 07:27:41 GMT - India - World - SN:13 - ID:9638715

    NEW DELHI, June 24 (MENA) - India said it sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that state media reported killed 1,000 people, ABC News reported ....

  • France aims to fill gas reserves by autumn, PM says

    Date: 2022-06-24 07:23:40 GMT - France - World - SN:12 - ID:9638708

    PARIS, June 24 (MENA) - France aims to fill its gas storage facilities by early autumn from 59% full now, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Thursday, as reduced Russian deliveries shake up the European market, the Global and Mail reported. ....

  • EC welcomes deal on new EU law on serious cross-border threats to health

    Date: 2022-06-24 07:11:49 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:11 - ID:9638642

    BRUSSELS, June 24 (MENA) – The European Commission (EC) has welcomed the political agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council on the Serious Cross-Border Threats to Health Regulation, according to a press release issued by the ....

  • India records 17,336 new Covid cases in 24 hours

    Date: 2022-06-24 07:04:28 GMT - India - World - SN:9 - ID:9638689

    NEW DELHI, June 24 (MENA) - India reported 17,336 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 43,362,294, NDTV reported Friday. The Union Health Ministry said 13 new fatalities were reported in the ....

  • US Senate passes gun control bill

    Date: 2022-06-24 06:31:42 GMT - USA - World - SN:8 - ID:9638651

    WASHINGTON, June 24 (MENA) - A bipartisan package of modest gun safety measures passed the US Senate late on Thursday even as the Supreme Court broadly expanded gun rights by ruling Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns in public ....

  • Cisco decides to phase out operations in Russia

    Date: 2022-06-24 06:30:10 GMT - Russia - World - SN:7 - ID:9638639

    MOSCOW, June 24 (MENA) – American manufacturer of network equipment and software Cisco will start to gradually withdraw from the markets of Russia and Belarus, TASS news agency reported. "We have now made the decision to begin an orderly ....

  • 4 killed in military plane crash south of Moscow

    Date: 2022-06-24 05:15:23 GMT - Russia - World - SN:1 - ID:9638605

    MOSCOW, June 24 (MENA) - A Russian military cargo plane crash landed and caught fire south of Moscow on Friday, killing at least four out of nine to 10 people on board, The Moscow Times reported. The Il-76 cargo aircraft crashed in the city of ....

  • Canada to provide C$250 million to UN to address global food crisis, says Trudeau

    Date: 2022-06-23 23:52:57 GMT - Canada - World - SN:97 - ID:9638578

    OTTAWA, June 23 (MENA) - Canada will provide C$250 million ($193 million) to the United Nations to address a food crisis exacerbated by supply chain constraints and high inflation after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, US News reported. "We ....

  • Canada will not be able to replace Russia on energy and rare metal markets — ambassador

    Date: 2022-06-23 22:56:06 GMT - Russia - World - SN:96 - ID:9638574

    MOSCOW, June 23 (MENA) - Canada will not be able to replace Russia on the markets of energy and rare earth metals, Russia’s Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Thursday, TASS ....

  • Polio warning: Virus could 'mutate and become infectious' as thousands not vaccinated

    Date: 2022-06-23 21:39:00 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:94 - ID:9638545

    LONDON, June 23 (MENA) - People are being urged to ensure their polio vaccines are up to date after an outbreak of the virus was detected in UK sewage samples. Polio, which was officially eradicated in the UK in 2003, can cause paralysis in rare ....

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