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  • N.Korea-China trade fair resumes after 7-yr halt over UN sanctions

    Date: 2022-04-29 08:45:00 GMT - North Korea - World - SN:18 - ID:9545081

    PYONGYANG, April 29 (MENA) - An international trade fair co-hosted by North Korea and China opened for the first time in seven years, according to Pyongyang's state media on Friday. It had been suspended since 2016 after China, the North's ....

  • China launches two new satellites

    Date: 2022-04-29 08:12:06 GMT - China - World - SN:17 - ID:9545047

    BEIJING, April 29 (MENA) - China successfully sent two satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported. The satellites, Siwei 01 and 02, were launched by a Long March-2C ....

  • EU-Armenia Partnership Committee convenes in Yerevan

    Date: 2022-04-29 07:56:05 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:16 - ID:9544998

    BRUSSELS, April 29 (MENA) - Established under the EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the EU-Armenia Partnership Committee met for the third time in Yerevan on Thursday, and for the first time since the CEPA entered ....

  • Australia reports more than 41,000 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2022-04-29 07:42:20 GMT - Australia - World - SN:14 - ID:9545022

    CANBERRA, April 29 (MENA) - Australia registered 41,696 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Australian Health Ministry said Friday. The caseload hit 5,889,048 in the country, according to the ministry. Also, 26 new fatalities ....

  • Poland receives more than 3 million refugees from Ukraine since Russian operation

    Date: 2022-04-29 07:39:32 GMT - Poland - World - SN:13 - ID:9545015

    WARSAW, April 29 (MENA) - Over 3 million refugees from Ukraine had crossed the border with Poland since the start of the Russian military operation, announced Poland's Border Guard on Friday. As many as 24,100 refugees crossed the ....

  • 12 women killed by landslide in Indonesia gold mine

    Date: 2022-04-29 07:21:52 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:12 - ID:9544997

    JAKARTA, April 29 (MENA) - Twelve women working in an illegal gold mine in Indonesia's North Sumatra province were killed when a cliff collapsed and triggered a landslide that buried them, the Star quoted the Indonesian police as saying on ....

  • Japan PM departs for Indonesia at start of Southeast Asia, Europe tour

    Date: 2022-04-29 06:38:00 GMT - Japan - World - SN:9 - ID:9544970

    TOKYO, April 29 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida departed on an eight-day tour of five nations in Southeast Asia and Europe on Friday to boost relations amid China's growing assertiveness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyodo news ....

  • South Korea reports 50,568 fresh COVID cases, lifts outdoor mask mandate

    Date: 2022-04-29 06:26:21 GMT - south korea - World - SN:8 - ID:9544962

    SEOUL, April 29 (MENA) - South Korea reported 50,568 new COVID-19 infections, including 30 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 17,194,616, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. South Korea will lift the ....

  • Russian Foreign Ministry denied accusations of damaging the safety of Ukrainian nuclear power plants

    Date: 2022-04-28 20:45:16 GMT - Russia - World - SN:88 - ID:9544839

    MOSCOW, April 28 (MENA) - The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, denied allegations of damage to the nuclear and physical nuclear safety of Ukrainian nuclear power plants due to Russia's actions, Tass News ....

  • Russia suspended from WTO Coordinating Group

    Date: 2022-04-28 20:40:34 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:87 - ID:9544825

    NEW YORK, April 28 (MENA) - The United States and the European Union have announced the suspension of Russia from the Developed Countries Coordination Group at the World Trade Organization (WTO) due to Moscow’s “unprovoked and unjustified” attack ....

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