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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, ....
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Kazakhstan reports 1,186 new daily cases of coronavirus
Date: 2021-02-05 14:21:58 GMT - Kazakhstan - World - SN:52 - ID:8785196
NURSULTAN, Feb 5 (MENA) - The Kazakh Health Ministry said Friday that 1,186 more people tested positive for coronavirus in Kazakhstan, Kazinform reported. It added a total of 192,825 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the country so ....
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Japan reports 2,368 new coronavirus infections
Date: 2021-02-05 14:16:43 GMT - Japan - World - SN:51 - ID:8785012
TOKYO, Feb 5 (MENA) - The Japanese government has confirmed 2,368 new coronavirus cases on Friday, raising the nation's total number of infections to 402,369, NHK broadcast reported. The country's death toll increased by 84 to 6,273, it added. ....
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Lavrov: Lack of normality key problem in Russian-EU ties
Date: 2021-02-05 13:20:37 GMT - Russia - World - SN:44 - ID:8785010
MOSCOW, Feb 5 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has branded the 'lack of normality' as the key problem in the relations between Russia and the European Union, according to TASS news agency on Friday. "Of course, the main issue that ....
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India records 154 coronavirus cases
Date: 2021-02-05 13:09:52 GMT - India - World - SN:41 - ID:8785116
NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (MENA) - Delhi recorded as many as 154 fresh coronavirus cases on Friday, bringing the tally of COVID-19 cases in the national capital has reached over 635,793, while the death toll mounted to 10,873, India TV reported. Two ....
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Kremlin dismisses Biden’s demand to release Navalny as aggressive rhetoric
Date: 2021-02-05 13:08:08 GMT - Russia - World - SN:35 - ID:8784952
MOSCOW, Feb 5 (MENA) - The demand of US President Joe Biden to release blogger Alexey Navalny comes down to "aggressive and unconstructive rhetoric," TASS news agency cited Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying. "This is a very aggressive and ....
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16 injured in blast in Pakistan's Balochistan
Date: 2021-02-05 13:07:41 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:32 - ID:8784960
ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 (MENA) - At least 16 people were injured in a blast in Balochistan's Sibi district on Friday, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper quoted officials as saying. Sibi Station House Officer Wazir Khan Marri said miscreants on a motorcycle ....
