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No US gov't official will attend Beijing Winter Olympics, White House announces
Date: 2021-12-06 20:54:40 GMT - USA - World - SN:83 - ID:9306026
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (MENA) - The United States will not send President Biden or any US government official to the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, the White House announced Monday. "The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or ....
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US, European nations concerned over human rights violations in Ethiopia
Date: 2021-12-06 18:22:43 GMT - USA - World - SN:75 - ID:9305867
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (MENA) - The United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK have expressed their profound concern about recent reports of the Ethiopian government’s detention of large numbers of Ethiopian citizens on the basis ....
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Germany's Social Democrats announce ministers for new government
Date: 2021-12-06 15:17:52 GMT - Germany - World - SN:56 - ID:9305618
BERLIN, Dec 6 (MENA) - The next German Chancellor Olaf Scholz threw in a number of minor surprises as he nominated the Social Democrats' much-awaited Cabinet ministers on Monday, according to Deutsche Welle. Inviting each designated minister to ....
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Pakistan: 2 pilots killed in military helicopter crash near Indian borders
Date: 2021-12-06 14:42:20 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:54 - ID:9305237
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6 (MENA) - Two Pakistani pilots died Monday in a helicopter crash in the Siachen region near India's borders. Rescue helicopters and troops have been dispatched to Siachen, the military, quoted by Express Tribune, said. Siachen ....
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Karl Nehammer sworn in as new Austrian chancellor
Date: 2021-12-06 13:29:05 GMT - Austria - World - SN:46 - ID:9305405
VIENNA, Dec 6 (MENA) - Karl Nehammer was sworn in as Austrian chancellor by President Alexander Van der Bellen on Monday in a ceremony in Vienna's Hofburg Palace as the country's third leader in three months, Deutsche Welle reported. He now ....
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Poland registers over 13,000 new coronavirus cases
Date: 2021-12-06 13:06:41 GMT - Poland - World - SN:43 - ID:9305150
WARSAW, Dec 6 (MENA) - Poland's Health Ministry confirmed Monday registering 13,250 new cases of coronavirus and 25 new fatalities. The Health Ministry said that Poland’s all registered COVID-19 cases rose to 3,684,671 while death cases rose to ....
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Next pandemic could be more lethal than Covid - The Independent
Date: 2021-12-06 11:36:21 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:35 - ID:9305018
LONDON, Dec 6 (MENA) - Another pandemic will threaten human lives and could be “more contagious” and “more lethal”, one of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine inventors has warned. Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, delivering the 44th prestigious ....
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Blinken hopes Russia to opt for de-escalation path in Ukraine
Date: 2021-12-06 09:19:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:24 - ID:9304610
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (MENA) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hopes Russia will prefer to de-escalate the conflict with Ukraine and calls on Moscow to withdraw their troops away from the Ukrainian border. That’s according to the Voice of ....
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China seeks first military base on Africa’s Atlantic coast, US Intelligence finds
Date: 2021-12-06 08:22:09 GMT - USA - World - SN:18 - ID:9304514
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (MENA) - Classified American intelligence reports suggest China intends to establish its first permanent military presence on the Atlantic Ocean in the tiny Central African country of Equatorial Guinea, according to U.S. ....
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Japan PM vows to "prepare for worst" amid Omicron variant fears
Date: 2021-12-06 07:44:55 GMT - Japan - World - SN:17 - ID:9304510
TOKYO, Dec 6 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed to "prepare for the worst" in dealing with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus while still moving swiftly to get the economy back on track, Kyodo reported Monday. In a policy ....
