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  • 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 ....

  • Buried AK-47 rifles, grenades and ammo discovered in shallow grave in South Africa

    Date: 2021-10-21 22:23:12 GMT - South Africa - World - SN:103 - ID:9230361

    JOHANNESBURG, Oct 21 (MENA) - Police in the South Africa’s West Rand have discovered pistols, rifles, stun grenades and live ammunition, buried in a shallow grave in a veld, IOL reported. The police were alerted to the weapons, when members of ....

  • Gun violence increased by 30% in US during pandemic

    Date: 2021-10-21 22:07:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:102 - ID:9230360

    NEW YORK, Oct 21 (MENA) - There was a sharp rise in gun violence in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, a new study finds. Researchers from the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, in Hershey, found a 30 percent increase in ....

  • Haiti gang threatens to ‘put a bullet’ in all 17 hostages, including 16 Americans

    Date: 2021-10-21 21:30:55 GMT - Haiti - World - SN:101 - ID:9230376

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 21 (MENA) - The notorious Haiti gang that kidnapped 16 Americans and a Canadian on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince on Saturday is threatening to “put a bullet” in the heads of the hostages if its ransom demand of $17 million is ....

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