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  • Russia to restore, expand air service with several countries as of June 28 — Deputy PM

    Date: 2021-06-18 19:16:28 GMT - Russia - World - SN:73 - ID:9017482

    MOSCOW, June 18 (MENA) - Russia restores air service with several countries, including Italy, Cyprus, North Macedonia, Belgium, Ireland, Bulgaria and Jordan, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova announced Friday. Besides, Russia plans ....

  • António Guterres secures second term as UN Secretary-General

    Date: 2021-06-18 18:48:12 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:70 - ID:9017441

    NEW YORK, June 18 (MENA) - António Guterres was on Friday re-appointed to a second term as UN Secretary-General, pledging as his priority, to continue helping the world chart a course out of the COVID-19 pandemic. On his Twitter account, Guterres ....

  • China condemns US FCC vote to advance ban on Chinese equipment

    Date: 2021-06-18 17:43:48 GMT - China - World - SN:65 - ID:9017381

    BEIJING, June 18 (MENA) - China on Friday said that it firmly opposes a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) vote to advance a plan to ban equipment from Chinese firms including Huawei in US telecoms networks, Xinhua reported. "China will ....

  • Russia to exit Open Skies Treaty on December 18

    Date: 2021-06-18 17:42:19 GMT - Russia - World - SN:64 - ID:9017376

    MOSCOW, June 18 (MENA) - Russia will completely withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies on December 18, 2021, TASS news agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement Friday. "Russia has notified all the member states about ....

  • Top US general dismisses warnings of imminent Chinese invasion of Taiwan

    Date: 2021-06-18 17:41:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:63 - ID:9017382

    LONDON, June 18 (MENA) - America’s most senior general has dismissed warnings of an imminent Chinese invasion of Taiwan, insisting that the People’s Liberation Army was not yet capable of annexing the island, the Financial Times reported ....

  • Delta variant now accounts for 99% of all UK cases

    Date: 2021-06-18 17:02:20 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:60 - ID:9017319

    LONDON, June 18 (MENA) - The Delta variant, first identified in India, now accounts for almost all of the UK's coronavirus cases, according to Public Health England, according to Sky News on Friday. Some 33,630 cases of the variant were ....

  • Greece reports 469 new coronavirus cases, 20 deaths in 24 hrs

    Date: 2021-06-18 16:22:36 GMT - Greece - World - SN:57 - ID:9017262

    ATHENS, June 18 (MENA) - The Greek National Organization for Public Health on Friday reported 20 more deaths from Covid-19 and 469 new confirmed cases, taking the respective totals to 12,514 and 417,706. Friday’s deaths are an increase from the ....

  • Moscow expects issue of Russians detained in Belarus to be resolved soon - Lavrov

    Date: 2021-06-18 16:00:02 GMT - Russia - World - SN:53 - ID:9017243

    MOSCOW, June 18 (MENA) - Moscow expects that the situation around Russian nationals detained in Belarus will be resolved in the near future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference following talks with Belarusian top ....

  • 46% of Americans say they won't get Covid-19 vaccine - Poll

    Date: 2021-06-18 15:56:33 GMT - USA - World - SN:52 - ID:9017240

    WASHINGTON, June 18 (MENA) -According to the AP-NORC poll, American adults who have not yet rolled up their sleeves for the shot remain hesitant to do so, US News reported on Friday. Just 7% of those who have not been vaccinated say they ....

  • Putin probes results of Geneva meeting with Biden

    Date: 2021-06-18 15:06:04 GMT - Russia - World - SN:44 - ID:9017181

    MOSCOW, June 18 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed on Friday with the permanent members of the Security Council, via videoconference results of the Geneva meeting with President of the United States Joe Biden that took place on June ....

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