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Canada says few weeks before Pfizer vaccine deliveries
Date: 2021-02-05 18:02:40 GMT - Canada - World - SN:74 - ID:8785535
OTTAWA, Feb 5 (MENA) – The Canadian federal government said it will still be a few weeks before Canada’s Pfizer deliveries fully ramp up to pre-interruption levels, while Moderna’s next shipment has yet to be confirmed, CTV News ....
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EU remains unreliable partner for Russia for now — Lavrov
Date: 2021-02-05 16:34:30 GMT - Russia - World - SN:69 - ID:8785315
MOSCOW, Feb 5 (MENA) - The European Union at this stage cannot be considered a reliable partner for Russia, but Moscow hopes that Brussels will pay attention to its vital interests in the end, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a press ....
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Russia expels diplomats from Germany, Poland, Sweden
Date: 2021-02-05 16:05:44 GMT - Russia - World - SN:66 - ID:8785423
MOSCOW, Feb 5 (MENA) - Russia said it has expelled diplomats from Germany, Poland and Sweden amid claims they took part in pro-Alexei Navalny protests, Euronews reported Friday. It comes on the day the EU's foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell is ....
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S. Korea, US tackle ways of N.K. denuclearization
Date: 2021-02-05 15:54:33 GMT - south korea - World - SN:64 - ID:8785350
SEOUL, Feb 5 (MENA) - A former US nuclear negotiator on Friday called on Washington and Seoul to review various approaches to denuclearization and stressed their need to maintain close bilateral ties, Yonhap news agency quoted the unification ....
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Germany hails Biden’s move to halt Trump-ordered troop cuts
Date: 2021-02-05 15:27:09 GMT - Germany - World - SN:61 - ID:8785294
BERLIN, Feb 5 (MENA) - The German government on Friday welcomed President Joe Biden’s decision to formally halt the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany, arguing that the troops’ stationing there is "in our mutual interest", The Washington ....
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5 killed, injured in explosion in western Pakistan
Date: 2021-02-05 15:26:46 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:60 - ID:8785251
ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 (MENA) - At least two people were killed and three others injured in an explosion outside deputy commissioner’s office on Anscomb Road in Quetta, the policemen and rescue workers at the scene said Friday. One injured was said to ....
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Macron under pressure as Covid vaccination rollout falters
Date: 2021-02-05 14:56:23 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:58 - ID:8785286
LONDON, Feb 5 (MENA) - It was an uncharacteristically fretful and tired-looking French President Emmanuel Macron who last week cast doubt on the effectiveness for the elderly of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and remarked that the UK’s ....
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Slovenian FM in Cyprus on Saturday for official visit
Date: 2021-02-05 14:40:09 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:56 - ID:8785200
NICOSIA, Feb 5 (MENA) - Slovenian Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Anze Logar will be in Cyprus on Saturday for an official visit, News in Cyprus reported. An official press release also said Logar and his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides ....
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Czech to receive 20,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine Saturday
Date: 2021-02-05 14:31:24 GMT - Czech - World - SN:54 - ID:8785198
PRAGUE, Feb 5 (MENA) - The Czech Republic is due on Saturday to receive the first 20,000 of 3 million doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, approved for use in the EU a week ago by the European Commission, Czech Radio reported on ....
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New Zealand to resume taking refugees a year after Covid border closure
Date: 2021-02-05 14:30:09 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:53 - ID:8785064
WELLINGTON, Feb 5 (MENA) - New Zealand will start receiving refugees again this month, nearly a year after it shut its borders to stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Guardian reported. A group of 35 refugees will arrive in February, ....