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  • New COVID-19 cases below 20,000 for 4th day as omicron wave recedes

    Date: 2022-05-29 08:12:19 GMT - south korea - World - SN:17 - ID:9593717

    SEOUL, May 29 (MENA) - New COVID-19 cases stayed below 20,000 for the fourth consecutive day Sunday, as the omicron-fueled spread of the virus has slowed down in recent weeks, Yonhap reported. The country added 12,654 new infections, including 26 ....

  • Brazil: Landslides, floods kill at least 31 in northeast Brazil

    Date: 2022-05-29 07:44:45 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:14 - ID:9593625

    BRASILIA, May 29 (MENA) - Landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 29 people in the state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil on Saturday, ABC News reported Sunday quoting authorities. More than 1,000 people have been forced to leave their ....

  • Nepal plane with 22 on board, including 4 Indians, Missing: Report

    Date: 2022-05-29 06:49:39 GMT - Nepal - World - SN:9 - ID:9593592

    KHATHMANDU, May 29 (MENA) - A small passenger plane operated by a private airline in Nepal went missing on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, NDTV reported, quoting airline officials. According to the developing reports, the ....

  • Russia won't use nuclear weapons, says ambassador

    Date: 2022-05-29 06:28:06 GMT - Russia - World - SN:7 - ID:9593577

    MOSCOW, May 29 (MENA) - Russia's ambassador in Britain has told the BBC he does not believe his country will use tactical nuclear weapons in the military operations in Ukraine. Andrei Kelin said that according to Russian military rules, such ....

  • New Zealand reports 4,899 new cases

    Date: 2022-05-29 06:22:14 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:6 - ID:9593585

    WELLINGTON, May 29 (MENA) - New Zealand recorded 4,899 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 1,148,045, according to TVNZ. The total number of publicly reported deaths with ....

  • India records 2,828 new infections

    Date: 2022-05-29 06:07:29 GMT - India - World - SN:3 - ID:9593566

    NEW DELHI, May 29 (MENA) - With 2,828 new coronavirus infections being recorded in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,31,53,043, while the active cases rose to 17,087, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on ....

  • Stephen King calls on world to keep economic pressure on Russia

    Date: 2022-05-28 23:01:06 GMT - USA - World - SN:72 - ID:9593494

    WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) - World-famous American writer Stephen King has called on the world to keep economic pressure on Russia, according to Ukrinform, he wrote this on Twitter. "Keep the economic pressure on Russia," he said, adding in Latin, ....

  • EU mulls diluting Russian oil ban to get Hungary on board

    Date: 2022-05-28 22:29:33 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:70 - ID:9593482

    BRUSSELS, May 28 (MENA) – A tentative compromise is being hashed out among EU countries over plans to sanction Russian oil imports, in an attempt to find a way forward that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will support, Politico quoted ....

  • Nationalists plan to shell Russia, blow up chemical tanks in Sumy - Russian Defense Ministry

    Date: 2022-05-28 21:46:41 GMT - Russia - World - SN:68 - ID:9593448

    MOSCOW, May 28 (MENA) - Nationalists intend to open fire on Russian territory and blow up chemical tanks in the city of Sumy in order to pin the blame for a chemical weapons attack on Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s ....

  • World’s second-strongest army can and should be defeated - Ukraine’s Defense Minister

    Date: 2022-05-28 21:45:23 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:67 - ID:9593429

    KYIV, May 28 (MENA) – Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov and Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyy have visited an exhibition of destroyed Russian military equipment in Kyiv’s Mykhailivska Square, ukrinform reported. Oleksiy Reznikov said ....

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