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India records 19,968 new Covid-19 cases, 673 deaths in a day
Date: 2022-02-20 07:27:36 GMT - India - World - SN:11 - ID:9426994
NEW DELHI, Feb 20 (MENA) - India on Sunday morning reported 19,968 new coronavirus cases, pushing the country’s infection tally since the pandemic broke out in January 2020 to 42,822,473. The number of new cases was 11.53% less than Saturday’s ....
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Japan's top COVID adviser says worth discussing new isolation period
Date: 2022-02-20 07:08:37 GMT - Japan - World - SN:9 - ID:9426983
TOKYO, Feb 20 (MENA) - Japan's top coronavirus adviser Shigeru Omi said Sunday it is time to start considering further shortening the quarantine period for people who have been in close contact with COVID-19 patients, Kyodo news reported. Omi ....
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JHU: global coronavirus cases exceed 423 million
Date: 2022-02-20 06:59:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:8 - ID:9426949
WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (MENA) - The overall global Covid-19 caseload topped 423 million and the deaths surged to more than five million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In its latest update, JHU revealed on Sunday that the current ....
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Biden to hold meeting with National Security Council on situation in Ukraine
Date: 2022-02-20 06:30:57 GMT - USA - World - SN:6 - ID:9426924
WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden will hold a meeting Sunday with the National Security Council as the White House warns Russia could attack Ukraine 'at any time'. According to a statement issued by the White House ....
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Egypt reports 2,025 new coronavirus cases, 62 fatalities
Date: 2022-02-19 23:09:17 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:72 - ID:9426876
CAIRO, Feb 19 (MENA) - The Health Ministry said Saturday night that 2,025 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed infections since the outbreak in the country began to 467,448. In a statement, Spokesman for the ....
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G7 foreign ministers concerned about Russia’s threatening military build-up around Ukraine
Date: 2022-02-19 22:05:07 GMT - Germany - World - SN:71 - ID:9426835
BERLIN, Feb 19 (MENA) - G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union remain gravely concerned about Russia’s threatening military ....
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Washington confident of its information on Ukrainian crisis - State Secretary
Date: 2022-02-19 22:04:38 GMT - Russia - World - SN:70 - ID:9426833
MOSCOW, Feb 19 (MENA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US is confident of the information it has concerning the Ukrainian crisis. In an interview with Dozhd TV on Saturday, he added “We’re very confident in the information ....
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Duma to discuss Donetsk, Lugansk at forthcoming session - speaker
Date: 2022-02-19 22:04:07 GMT - Russia - World - SN:69 - ID:9426837
MOSCOW, Feb 19 (MENA) - Russia’s State Duma at its forthcoming session on February 22 will discuss the situation in connection with the soaring tensions in Donbass and the western reaction, the speaker of the lower house of parliament Vyacheslav ....
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Ukrainian president calls to convene Budapest Memorandum summit
Date: 2022-02-19 22:03:48 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:68 - ID:9426834
KYIV, Feb 19 (MENA) - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has said he has instructed the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to call a summit conference of the Budapest Memorandum’s signatories, TASS reported on Saturday. "I have instructed the Foreign ....
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Border guards say stray shells crash on Russian territory near Ukraine
Date: 2022-02-19 22:03:19 GMT - Russia - World - SN:67 - ID:9426832
MOSCOW, Feb 19 (MENA) – The Rostov Region’s border guard directorate of the federal security service FSB says several artillery shells have crashed in Russia’s territory near the border with Ukraine, Tass reported. One shell exploded two ....
