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Xi meets Serbian president
Date: 2022-02-05 08:38:49 GMT - China - World - SN:17 - ID:9401762
BEIJING, Feb 5 (MENA) - Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed the ironclad friendship between China and Serbia when meeting with visiting Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Beijing on Saturday. Xi said that the two countries enjoy high-level ....
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Tremors felt in parts of India over earthquake in Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region
Date: 2022-02-05 08:14:17 GMT - India - World - SN:15 - ID:9401680
NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (MENA) – An earthquake measuring 5.7 magnitude in the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region sent tremors across parts of India’s Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi NCR, the Indian Express reported. An earthquake, which occurred at a ....
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US supports Deutsche Welle after Russia’s reciprocal measures
Date: 2022-02-05 08:00:00 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:9401679
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (MENA) – US State Department Spokesman Ned Price supported Germany's Deutsche Welle media company after Russia’s reciprocal measures against it following the ban on broadcasts of the RT DE TV channel, TASS news agency ....
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JHU: Global coronavirus cases exceed 390 mn
Date: 2022-02-05 07:26:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:9401579
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (MENA) – The overall global Covid-19 caseload topped 390 million and the deaths surged to more than five million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In its latest update, JHU revealed on Saturday that the current ....
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India's COVID-19 tally surpasses 42 million, deaths over 500,000
Date: 2022-02-05 07:23:33 GMT - USA - World - SN:9 - ID:9401561
NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (MENA) – India's COVID-19 tally rose to 42,080,664 on Saturday as 127,952 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country. Besides, 1,059 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the total ....
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US hails Djibouti’s contributions to peace, security in Horn of Africa
Date: 2022-02-05 06:25:19 GMT - USA - World - SN:4 - ID:9401605
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke Thursday with Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, the US Department of State said in a press release. Blinken thanked Foreign Minister Youssouf for Djibouti’s ....
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US, Poland reiterate their commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty
Date: 2022-02-05 06:14:46 GMT - USA - World - SN:3 - ID:9401595
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (MENA) – US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met Thursday with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in Washington, D.C., as part of the US-Poland Strategic Dialogue, the US Department of State said in a statement published on ....
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Albanian ex-minister jailed for assisting drug trafficking
Date: 2022-02-04 22:30:17 GMT - Albania - World - SN:85 - ID:9401512
TIRANA, Feb 4 (MENA) - An Albanian court on Friday sentenced a former interior minister to more than three years in prison for abuse of office over ties to a criminal drug trafficking network, ABC News reported. Saimir Tahiri was sentenced three ....
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7 dead as tourist plane crashes near Peru's Nazca lines
Date: 2022-02-04 22:13:24 GMT - Peru - World - SN:84 - ID:9401507
LIMA, Feb 4 (MENA) – Five tourists and two crew died Friday when their plane crashed on a trip to view Peru's famous Nazca lines, the transport ministry said. The Cessna 207 single-engine plane belonging to the Aerosantos tourism company came ....
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WHO chief hopes Olympic Games can help end Covid-19 pandemic
Date: 2022-02-04 21:50:08 GMT - China - World - SN:83 - ID:9401492
BEIJING, Feb 4 (MENA) – Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom hoped that the coming Olympic Games would contribute to putting an end to the Covid-19 pandemic. "Humbled to participate in Beijing 2022 Torch Relay. ....
