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Boris Johnson: UK adults to be vaccinated by July 31
Date: 2021-02-22 20:08:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:77 - ID:8812833
LONDON, Feb 22 (MENA) – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said all British adults will be offered a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine by July 31, Politico reported. "We will now aim to offer a jab to every adult by the end of July, helping us ....
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S. Korea to deploy light aircraft carrier by 2033
Date: 2021-02-22 19:33:15 GMT - south korea - World - SN:73 - ID:8812674
SEOUL, Feb 22 (MENA) - South Korea will push to deploy a light aircraft carrier by 2033 to boost the country's defense capabilities, Yonhap quoted the arms procurement agency as saying on Monday. The defense project promotion committee held a ....
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Tehran, Seoul agree to unfreeze Iranian assets
Date: 2021-02-22 15:03:33 GMT - Iran - World - SN:54 - ID:8812403
TEHRAN, Feb 22 (MENA) - Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmat and South Korean Ambassador to Tehran Tehran Ryu Jeong-hyun on Monday agreed to transfer part of Iran’s assets in Korean banks, IRNA reported. The agreement was ....
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Death toll rises to four in Kabul roadside bomb blast
Date: 2021-02-22 09:20:18 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:30 - ID:8811487
KABUL, Feb 22 (MENA) - The death toll from Sunday’s roadside bomb blast in Kabul’s Baraki roundabout rose to four, a source said on Monday, adding that six people were wounded in the explosion. The blast took place on Sunday afternoon in which a ....
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US willing to reengage in talks with Iran, says national security adviser
Date: 2021-02-22 09:15:48 GMT - USA - World - SN:29 - ID:8811488
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (MENA) - White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US had begun to communicate with Iran over the country’s detention of American citizens, VOA reported. Sullivan added that President Joe Biden was determined ....
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Human rights in the time of Covid: 'a pandemic of abuses’, says UN head
Date: 2021-02-22 08:33:35 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:24 - ID:8811392
LONDON, Feb 22 (MENA) - The world is facing a “pandemic of human rights abuses”, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said. Authoritarian regimes had imposed drastic curbs on rights and freedoms and had used the virus as a pretext to ....
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China's mainland reports 11 new imported cases of coronavirus
Date: 2021-02-22 08:30:41 GMT - China - World - SN:22 - ID:8811327
BEIJING, Feb 22 (MENA) - The Chinese mainland reported no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the National Health Commission said Sunday. No new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases had been reported for six straight days since ....
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US's Blinken vows firm action against Myanmar military if they continue to kill protesters
Date: 2021-02-22 08:19:09 GMT - USA - World - SN:21 - ID:8811460
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (MENA) - The United States will keep up 'firm action' against Myanmar authorities violently cracking down on opponents of a military coup, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday, after two protesters were shot dead over ....
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Two killed in gunmen attack in Afghanistan's Herat province
Date: 2021-02-22 07:40:40 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:18 - ID:8811342
KABUL, Feb 22 (MENA) - Two people were killed in an attack by unidentified armed men in the city of Herat, in southern Afghanistan, TOLO News quoted the provincial governor Waheed Qatali as saying on Monday morning. The incident happened in Sayed ....
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United Airlines removing 24 Boeing 777s from service after Denver incident
Date: 2021-02-22 07:31:51 GMT - USA - World - SN:17 - ID:8811348
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (MENA) - United Airlines is removing all of its Boeing 777 planes currently in service that are powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000 series engines after the Federal Aviation Administration called for stepped-up inspections, CNN ....
