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  • S.Korean president to make three-nation European trip next week

    Date: 2021-10-22 16:22:02 GMT - south korea - World - SN:48 - ID:9231341

    SEOUL, Oct 22 (MENA) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will make a three-nation European trip next week for a G20 summit in Italy, the COP26 climate summit in the UK, as well as a state visit to Hungary, Yonhap news agency quoted his office as ....

  • Over 80 million reached as Africa trailblazes novel polio vaccine

    Date: 2021-10-22 16:09:18 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:46 - ID:9231328

    GENEVA, Oct 22 (MENA) - More than 80 million children have been vaccinated with the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) in six countries in Africa, the world’s first region to rollout of the vaccine just months after the World Health ....

  • Australia's free trade talks with EU paused until 2022

    Date: 2021-10-22 16:04:35 GMT - Australia - World - SN:45 - ID:9231313

    CANABERRA, Oct 22 (MENA) - The European Union has postponed the next round of free trade talks with Australia for a second time amid simmering anger over Canberra's decision to cancel a dlrs 90 billion submarine contract with France. Australian ....

  • NATO’s Russia strategy validates halting official dialogue, Kremlin says

    Date: 2021-10-22 14:56:14 GMT - Russia - World - SN:40 - ID:9231175

    MOSCOW, Oct 22 (MENA) - NATO’s strategy on containing Russia validates Moscow’s decision to cease official dialogue with the alliance, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday. "This vividly confirms the correctness of the ....

  • Russia to provide extra gas supplies to Europe if necessary, vows upper house speaker

    Date: 2021-10-22 14:17:21 GMT - Russia - World - SN:35 - ID:9231016

    ATHENS, Oct 22 (MENA) - Russia will fully meet its current obligations on gas supplies to Europe and will also try to provide extra supplies, should the need arise, Russia's Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said in an interview with ....

  • Pfizer booster dose to be given to Sinovac vaccine recipients in Malaysia

    Date: 2021-10-22 12:09:02 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:30 - ID:9230814

    KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 (MENA) - The Malaysian Ministry of Health will be extending Comirnaty (Pfizer-BionTech) COVID-19 vaccine booster dose to individuals who have completed vaccination with Sinovac for at least three months, the Malaysian National ....

  • 7 killed in Rohingya refugee camp attack in Bangladesh: Police

    Date: 2021-10-22 11:55:29 GMT - Bangladesh - World - SN:27 - ID:9230930

    DHAKA, Oct 22 (MENA) - Gunmen killed at least seven people and left others wounded in an assault Friday on a seminary in a Rohingya refugee camp on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, NDTV quoted the police as saying. The attackers shot some victims ....

  • Russian security prevents Daesh-plotted terror attack in Stavropol

    Date: 2021-10-22 09:22:21 GMT - Russia - World - SN:18 - ID:9230677

    MOSCOW, Oct 22 (MENA) - Russia’s Federal Security Service has prevented a terror attack plotted by a supporter of Daesh terrorist group in the Stavropol Region, a source in the service's Public Relations Centre told TASS news agency on ....

  • Tokyo, Osaka to ease eatery restrictions Monday

    Date: 2021-10-22 09:12:59 GMT - Japan - World - SN:17 - ID:9230651

    TOKYO, Oct 22 (MENA) - Prefectures in Japan including Tokyo and Osaka are easing restrictions on bars and resta-urants as coronavirus cases decline, public broadcaster NHK reported. Officials in Tokyo confirmed 36 new cases on Thursday. The daily ....

  • JHU: Global coronavirus cases hit 242,482,541

    Date: 2021-10-22 06:28:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:2 - ID:9230472

    WAHSINGTON, Oct 22 (MENA) - As many as 242,482,541 people are reported to have been infected with the novel coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said on Friday. It added that 4,929,545 people have died from the virus ....

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