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Trump lifts travel restrictions on Europe, Brazil
Date: 2021-01-19 05:18:00 GMT - USA - World - SN:2 - ID:8758352
WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump has lifted coronavirus-related travel restrictions for much of Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Brazil, effective on January 26 -- a move that President-elect Joe Biden's administration ....
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Wali to open annual meeting of int’l organizations leaderships Wednesday
Date: 2021-01-18 19:27:54 GMT - Austria - World - SN:60 - ID:8758023
VIENNA, Jan 18 (MENA) – Ghada Wali, the Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is set to inaugurate the annual meeting of international organizations leaderships and media representatives on Wednesday. The meeting will ....
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Lockdown lifted at US Capitol Building after brief security scare
Date: 2021-01-18 19:26:41 GMT - USA - World - SN:59 - ID:8758133
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (MENA) – A small fire at an apparent homeless encampment less than a mile away from the US Capitol Building on Monday prompted Capitol Police to put the building on lockdown for over an hour "out of an abundance of caution," a ....
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French Muslim council agrees accord on 'principles' sought by Macron
Date: 2021-01-18 12:58:24 GMT - France - World - SN:38 - ID:8757178
PARIS, Jan 18 (MENA) - France's Muslim federations has agreed to a "charter of principles" requested by President Emmanuel Macron in his bid to eradicate sectarianism and extremism, France 24 reported. Macron urged the French Council of the ....
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Chinese and Russian vaccines in high demand as world scrambles for doses
Date: 2021-01-18 10:45:41 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:29 - ID:8757173
LONDON, Jan 18 (MENA) - Chinese and Russian manufacturers are seeing growing appetite from foreign buyers for their Covid-19 vaccines as the international scramble for jabs intensifies, despite lingering concerns over incomplete trial data and the ....
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Germany calls for release of Russian opposition leader
Date: 2021-01-18 10:31:51 GMT - Germany - World - SN:28 - ID:8757183
BERLIN, Jan 18 (MENA) – Germany has called for the release of Russian opposition leaders Alexei Navalny. Russia should "immediately" release Navalny, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Monday after a wave of Western condemnation of his ....
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Russia reports 22,857 new coronavirus cases, 471 deaths
Date: 2021-01-18 09:14:22 GMT - Russia - World - SN:22 - ID:8757067
MOSCOW, Jan 18 (MENA) - Russia reported 22,857 new coronavirus cases on Monday, including 3,679 in Moscow, taking the national tally - the world's fourth highest - to 3,591,066, The Chronicle Herald reported. Authorities said 471 people had died ....
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UK prepares to vaccinate over-70s
Date: 2021-01-18 08:43:15 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:19 - ID:8756972
LONDON, Jan 18 (MENA) - Coronavirus vaccines will be offered to millions of over-70s and the clinically extremely vulnerable from this week as the government expands the rollout amid a border crackdown to keep out new strains, PA Media ....
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Mass coronavirus vaccination campaign begins in Russia
Date: 2021-01-18 08:16:39 GMT - Russia - World - SN:17 - ID:8756933
MOSCOW, Jan 18 (MENA) - A mass coronavirus vaccination campaign began in Russia on Monday, Tass News Agency reported. Russians willing to be vaccinated can choose between two vaccines, Sputnik V and EpiVacCorona. Russian President Vladimir Putin ....
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US reports more than 174,000 new Covid-19 cases
Date: 2021-01-18 07:38:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:15 - ID:8756845
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (MENA) - The United States reported 174,513 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases nationwide to at least 23,933,368, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Another 1,723 ....
