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Portugal confirms 5 monkeypox cases
Date: 2022-05-20 17:13:32 GMT - Portugal - World - SN:71 - ID:9579982
LISBON, May 20 (MENA) - Health authorities have confirmed five cases of infection with the Monkeypox virus, known as "monkey smallpox", in Portugal and there are 20 more suspected cases, the Portugal News reported. In a statement, the ....
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Canada provides additional loan of dlrs 250 mln to Ukraine
Date: 2022-05-20 16:38:49 GMT - Canada - World - SN:67 - ID:9579939
OTTAWA, May 20 (MENA) - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland announced an additional loan of dlrs 250 million to Ukraine through the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Administered Account for Ukraine, the Canadian ....
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Russia will obviously not supply gas to anyone for free, says Kremlin
Date: 2022-05-20 11:36:57 GMT - Russia - World - SN:41 - ID:9579412
MOSCOW, May 20 (MENA) - Russia will not supply gas to anyone for free, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday when commenting on a statement made by the Finnish company Gasum, saying that it will not fulfill the requirement on ....
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EU transfers EUR 600mln to Ukraine – von der Leyen
Date: 2022-05-20 11:35:09 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:40 - ID:9579391
KIEV, May 20 (MENA) - The European Union has disbursed a new tranche of EUR 600 million to Ukraine and is working on a procedure to provide an additional EUR 9 billion loan by the end of this year, Ukrinform news agency reported on Friday. ....
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Finland loses main gas supply after refusing payment in rubles
Date: 2022-05-20 11:30:14 GMT - Russia - World - SN:39 - ID:9579382
MOSCOW, May 20 (MENA) - Finland is becoming the third European country to be cut off from Russian natural gas after refusing to pay for the fuel in rubles, Bloomberg reported Friday. Flows on a main pipeline from the region’s top supplier are set ....
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UN: 18 million facing severe hunger in West Africa's Sahel
Date: 2022-05-20 11:24:28 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:37 - ID:9579368
GENEVA, May 20 (MENA) - The UN is warning that 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months, citing the impacts of Russia's war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, climate-induced shocks and rising costs, ....
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N.Korea reports over 260,000 cases of fever in single day
Date: 2022-05-20 11:22:56 GMT - North Korea - World - SN:36 - ID:9579337
PYONGYANG, May 20 (MENA) - North Korea reported more than 260,000 new suspected cases of the coronavirus with fever symptoms in a single day, pushing up the total number of suspected infections to over 2 million, NHK reported on Friday. Over ....
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Japan reports over 37,000 new coronavirus cases
Date: 2022-05-20 11:12:37 GMT - Japan - World - SN:35 - ID:9579316
TOKYO, May 20 (MENA) - Japan recorded 37,438 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 8,561,791, NHK reported on Friday. Health authorities said that 44 deaths have also been ....
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9 killed in fire after tanker-truck collision in India
Date: 2022-05-20 10:48:15 GMT - India - World - SN:30 - ID:9579283
NEW DELHI, May 20 (MENA) – Nine persons were charred to death in a fire that broke out after a collision between a diesel-laden tanker and a truck carrying wood on the outskirts of the Indian city of Chandrapur in Maharashtra, NDTV reported. The ....
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Australia: Monkeypox confirmed in Melbourne and Sydney
Date: 2022-05-20 10:29:56 GMT - Australia - World - SN:26 - ID:9579211
CANBERRA, May 20 (MENA) - Two cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in Australia: one in Melbourne and another in Sydney, ABC news reported Friday. The case in Melbourne is a man in his 30s who developed mild symptoms before returning home from ....