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  • JHU: Global Covid-19 caseload tops 235m

    Date: 2021-10-05 06:08:38 GMT - USA - World - SN:3 - ID:9201705

    WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (MENA) - The overall global Covid-19 caseload topped 235 million and the deaths surged to more than four million, according to CNN. In its latest update, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) revealed that the current global caseload ....

  • US State Department: Washington ready to meet with North Korea without preconditions

    Date: 2021-10-04 22:54:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:106 - ID:9201623

    WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (MENA) - Spokesperson for the US Department of State Ned Price said that the US is ready to meet with North Korea without preconditions, The Hill reported Monday. In a press briefing, the spokesman said Washington is working ....

  • IATA estimates over dlrs 200 bn in losses between 2020 & 2022

    Date: 2021-10-04 22:17:15 GMT - Canada - World - SN:104 - ID:9201546

    MONTREAL, Oct 4 (MENA) - Airlines are now expected to lose dlrs 51.8 billion this year, remain in the red as an industry next year and rack up collective losses of over dlrs 200 million between 2020 and 2022, IATA’s latest economic forecast ....

  • UK’s Sunak says he can’t rule out further tax increases

    Date: 2021-10-04 20:58:41 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:99 - ID:9201545

    MANCHESTER, Oct 4 (MENA) – UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak said he can’t rule out further tax increases to pay for social care, raising the prospect of further tension within the governing Conservative Party over how the government will ....

  • Moscow says to take part in G20 on Afghanistan after clarifying details

    Date: 2021-10-04 20:58:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:98 - ID:9201460

    MOSCOW, Oct 4 (MENA) - Moscow will decide on the level of participation in the G20 summit, devoted to the situation in Afghanistan after clarifying all the details, the Department of Information and Press of Russia’s Foreign Ministry reported on ....

  • EU Commission approves Finland's 2.1 bln euro recovery plan

    Date: 2021-10-04 20:58:05 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:97 - ID:9201459

    BRUSSELS, Oct 4 (MENA) - The European Commission approved on Monday Finland's 2.1 billion euro plan to recover from the pandemic and make the economy greener and more digitalized in coming years. Under the scheme, Finland will get from the EU 2.1 ....

  • Teachers across America are fleeing in record numbers

    Date: 2021-10-04 19:25:34 GMT - USA - World - SN:93 - ID:9201455

    WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (MENA) - Schools reopening are causing teachers to quit or retire because there has been a surge of COVID-19 outbreaks due to some states banning mask mandates. There have been more than 200,000 reported weekly cases among ....

  • Detained Myanmar leader asks to reduce court time due to ‘strained’ health

    Date: 2021-10-04 19:24:44 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:91 - ID:9201429

    LONDON, Oct 4 (MENA) - Aung San Suu Kyi has requested her court sessions be held every two weeks rather than every week on health grounds, according to her lawyer, as hearings for a series of legal charges filed against her by Myanmar’s junta ....

  • Malaysia warns Myanmar to cooperate with ASEAN envoy or no summit

    Date: 2021-10-04 18:15:54 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:89 - ID:9201431

    KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 (MENA) - Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah warned Monday that Myanmar may be excluded from a summit of South-East Asian leaders this month if it refuses to cooperate with the bloc's special envoy in resolving ....

  • No conditions yet for meeting between Putin, Zelensky, Kremlin says

    Date: 2021-10-04 18:14:14 GMT - Russia - World - SN:86 - ID:9201427

    MOSCOW, Oct 4 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has never rejected the possibility of a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky, yet so far there are no conditions or subjects for the possible contact of the two leaders, ....

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