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  • Italy confirms 15,370 new coronavirus cases, 310 deaths

    Date: 2021-04-17 17:25:11 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:49 - ID:8914550

    LONDON, April 17 (MENA) - The Italian Health Ministry announced on Saturday that 310 coronavirus deaths were reported in Italy over the past 24 hours, according to The Guardian. Meanwhile, as many as 15,370 new infections were registered in the ....

  • Bangladesh reports over 100 Covid deaths again

    Date: 2021-04-17 17:21:47 GMT - Bangladesh - World - SN:48 - ID:8914572

    DHAKA, April 17 (MENA) - Bangladesh reported over a hundred Covid-19 deaths for the consecutive second day as 101 patients died of the virus Saturday, Prothom Alo News reported. With the latest casualties, the number of total deaths in the ....

  • Global Covid-19 death toll tops 3 million as countries struggle with variants, vaccinations

    Date: 2021-04-17 14:35:48 GMT - all over the world - World - SN:37 - ID:8914030

    WORLD CAPITALS, April 17 (MENA) - The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering three million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and ....

  • Pandemic made 2020 ‘the year of the quiet ocean’, say scientists

    Date: 2021-04-17 12:20:23 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:30 - ID:8913953

    LONDON, April 17 (MENA) - The Covid-19 lockdown has produced the quietest year for the world’s oceans in recent memory, The Guardian quoted a group of scientists working on a global map of underwater soundscapes as saying on Saturday. Noise ....

  • US forces withdrawing from Afghanistan likely to return to stateside bases

    Date: 2021-04-17 11:16:16 GMT - USA - World - SN:28 - ID:8913423

    WASHINGTON, April 17 (MENA) - The Pentagon said that most if not all US forces who will be withdrawn from Afghanistan will likely be returning to stateside bases. "We have a robust capability in the Central Command area of operations as it is," ....

  • Malaysia: 40 new medical staff infected with Covid-19 after taking vaccines

    Date: 2021-04-17 11:00:08 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:27 - ID:8913728

    KULA LUMPUR, April 17 (MENA) – Malaysia's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 40 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 among medical staff in the Southeast Asian country. All the reported cases had already taken two shots of the anti-coronavirus ....

  • Coronavirus: 72 new cases reported in Afghanistan in 24 hours

    Date: 2021-04-17 10:49:42 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:25 - ID:8913730

    KABUL, April 17 (MENA) - The Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Saturday reported 72 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,124 samples tested in the past 24 hours, Tolo News reported. The ministry also reported 10 recoveries from COVID-19 in ....

  • Afghanistan: Twenty military captives freed from Taliban in Nimroz

    Date: 2021-04-17 10:21:19 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:24 - ID:8913483

    KABUL, April 17 (MENA) - At least 20 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) who were kept captive by the Taliban have been freed after Afghanistan Special Forces stormed a Taliban prison in the Western Nimroz province ....

  • Three Afghan police officers killed in Herat bomb attack

    Date: 2021-04-17 09:03:29 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:19 - ID:8913582

    KABUL, April 17 (MENA) - Three Afghan police officers were killed in a car bomb attack that targeted an outpost in the Zinda Jan district in the western province of Herat province on Friday evening, Tolo News reported, quoting the provincial ....

  • Biden says 'premature' to know if Iran talks will succeed

    Date: 2021-04-17 08:35:29 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:8913489

    WASHINGTON, April 17 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden said it was too early to know whether indirect talks underway with Iran would succeed in reviving a nuclear accord, Al Arabiya News website reported. Biden said the United States does "not ....

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