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EU slaps new sanctions against 78 people, 8 entities in Belarus
Date: 2021-06-21 19:08:51 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:97 - ID:9022339
BRUSSELS, June 21 (MENA) - The European Union has expanded its sanctions against Belarus by additionally blacklisting 78 natural persons and eight legal entities, the European Council said in a statement issued on Monday. "The Council today decided ....
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US slaps sanctions on Belarus over human rights abuses, erosion of democracy
Date: 2021-06-21 18:32:21 GMT - Belarus - World - SN:93 - ID:9022338
WASHINGTON, June 21 (MENA) - The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Belarusian individuals and entities, the US Treasury Department said, joining Britain, Canada and the European Union in applying pressure for human ....
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UK reports 5 more coronavirus deaths, 10,633 new cases
Date: 2021-06-21 16:54:55 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:84 - ID:9022217
LONDON, June 21 (MENA) - The UK has reported five coronavirus deaths and 10,633 new cases over the past 24 hours, Sky News reported Monday. Another 163,750 people also had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and 109,408 had a second dose. It ....
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EIB, Santander provide €2 bln to support European companies affected by COVID-19
Date: 2021-06-21 15:26:10 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:74 - ID:9022082
BRUSSELS, June 21 (MENA) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) signed two agreements with Santander under the Pan-European Guarantee Fund (EGF), approved as part of the €540 billion package of measures with which the European Union is responding to ....
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Afghanistan records 1,847 new cases of coronavirus, 78 deaths
Date: 2021-06-21 13:26:30 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:53 - ID:9021798
KABUL, June 21 (MENA) - The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 1,847 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 4,629 samples tested in the last 24 hours, said Tolo news agency. The ministry also reported 78 deaths and 670 recoveries from ....
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Swedish PM ousted in parliament no-confidence vote
Date: 2021-06-21 11:25:15 GMT - Sweden - World - SN:37 - ID:9021316
STOCKHOLM, June 21 (MENA) - Sweden's parliament voted to oust Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in a no-confidence motion on Monday, giving the Social Democrat leader a week to either resign and hand the speaker the job of finding a new government, or ....
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US reaffirms commitment to to alleviating suffering of refugees globally
Date: 2021-06-21 09:51:01 GMT - USA - World - SN:32 - ID:9021218
WASHINGTON, June 21 (MENA) - The United States reaffirmed commitment to alleviating the suffering of refugees globally through its leadership in humanitarian assistance and diplomacy. A statement released on the website of the US Department of ....
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Russia reports 17,378 new COVID-19 cases, 440 deaths
Date: 2021-06-21 08:58:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:27 - ID:9021144
MOSCOW, June 21 (MENA) - Russia reported 17,378 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 7,584 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 5,334,204. The government coronavirus task force said 440 people had died of ....
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Ukraine reports 323 new Covid cases
Date: 2021-06-21 07:51:31 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:22 - ID:9021020
KIEV, June 21 (MENA) - Ukraine has registered 323 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on June 21, Kyiv Post reported Monday. The total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic is over 2.2 million. In the past 24 hours, 677 ....
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Medsafe approves Pfizer vaccine for New Zealand 12-15 year olds
Date: 2021-06-21 07:51:11 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:21 - ID:9021022
LONDON, June 21 (MENA) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has welcomed Medsafe's "very carefully considered" provisional approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 to 15, NZ Herald reported. Previously it had only been approved for ....
