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  • COVID-19: Scale of education loss ‘nearly insurmountable’, warns UNICEF

    Date: 2022-01-24 08:55:52 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:22 - ID:9382021

    NEW YORK, Jan 24 (MENA) - More than 635 million students remain affected by full or partial school closures. On the International Day of Education and as the COVID-19 pandemic nears its two-year mark, UNICEF shares the latest available data on the ....

  • Australia reports more than 40,000 new Covid cases

    Date: 2022-01-24 08:10:34 GMT - Australia - World - SN:19 - ID:9382026

    CANBERRA, Jan 24 (MENA) - Australia registered 40,662 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 2,239,310. Also, 58 new fatalities resulting from the virus were reported in the past 24 ....

  • Japan to expand COVID quasi-emergency to over 30 of 47 prefs.

    Date: 2022-01-24 07:57:18 GMT - Japan - World - SN:18 - ID:9382020

    TOKYO, Jan 24 (MENA) - Japan will expand a quasi-state of emergency to over 30 of the country's 47 prefectures to curb the rapid spread of coronavirus infections after 16 more prefectures asked to be included under the measure, Kyodo quoted senior ....

  • US advises citizens against travel to Russia

    Date: 2022-01-24 07:56:38 GMT - USA - World - SN:17 - ID:9382065

    WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (MENA) - The US State Department on Sunday issued a travel advisory warning Americans not to travel to Russia due to the mounting tensions on the border with Ukraine, MSN News reported. Meanwhile, it also ordered the families ....

  • JHU: World coronavirus cases hit 351,409,807

    Date: 2022-01-24 07:30:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:9381967

    WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (MENA) - As many as 351,409,807 people are reported to have been infected with the coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said on Monday. It added that 5,596,593 people have died from the virus worldwide. The ....

  • India logs 306,064 new Covid cases

    Date: 2022-01-24 07:29:59 GMT - India - World - SN:15 - ID:9381985

    NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (MENA) - India reported 306,064 new cases of Covid-19 and 439 deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours, Business Standard reported Monday. Total Covid-19 cases increased to 39.54 million and pandemic fatalities to ....

  • Mexico reports 98 more COVID-19 deaths; 20,872 new cases

    Date: 2022-01-24 06:59:48 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:12 - ID:9381943

    MEXICO CITY, Jan 24 (MENA) - Mexico on Sunday reported 98 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the official death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began to 303,183, according to media reports. The country also reported 20,872 new confirmed ....

  • Washington orders US staffers' families to leave Ukraine

    Date: 2022-01-24 06:34:45 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:9381927

    WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (MENA ) - The State Department ordered Sunday night the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine to leave the country amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion, MSN reported . The department told the ....

  • Ex-Afghan national security adviser lists causes for republic's fall

    Date: 2022-01-23 21:30:05 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:86 - ID:9381805

    KABUL, Jan 23 (MENA) - National Security Advisor (NSA) for the previous Afghan government Hamdullah Mohib, in an interview with Foreign Policy recounted multiple factors which led to the collapse of the republican system on August 15, 2021, Tolo ....

  • Armenia's president resigns

    Date: 2022-01-23 20:57:49 GMT - Armenia - World - SN:85 - ID:9381798

    YEREVAN, Jan 23 (MENA) - Armenian President Armen Sarkissian announced Sunday that he is resigning his largely ceremonial position. In a statement on his official website, Sarkissian attributed the the resignation move to the inability of his ....

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