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  • EMA agrees to authorize an adapted Spikevax vaccine targeting Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant in EU countries

    Date: 2023-09-15 14:03:20 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:41 - ID:10346567

    BRUSSELS, Sept 15 (MENA) -The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s human medicines committee has agreed to authorize an adapted Spikevax vaccine targeting the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant in the EU member states. The vaccine — known as Spikevax XBB.1.5 ....

  • Over 30 migrants rescued off Greece's Rhodes

    Date: 2023-09-15 12:54:30 GMT - Greece - World - SN:32 - ID:10346458

    ATHENS, Sept 15 (MENA) - Greece's coast guard rescued 33 migrants from a boat that was in difficulty off the coast of Rhodes on Thursday evening, the Shipping Ministry has said in a statement carried by Ekathimerini newspaper. After the island’s ....

  • S. Korea hints at possible unilateral sanctions against Moscow following N. Korea-Russia summit

    Date: 2023-09-15 09:07:01 GMT - south korea - World - SN:21 - ID:10346198

    SEOUL, Sept 15 (MENA) – South Korea's top diplomat hinted Friday that Seoul could potentially impose unilateral sanctions against Moscow amid a recent summit between North Korea and Russia that has prompted concerns of military cooperation between ....

  • UN launches flash appeal to aid 250,000 Libyans hit by devastating floods

    Date: 2023-09-15 08:39:27 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:20 - ID:10346215

    NEW YORK, Sept 15 (MENA) - UN humanitarians are working flat out on the ground in Libya, providing desperately needed aid to thousands of survivors of the flood disaster that has left thousands dead and thousands more unaccounted for, UN News said. ....

  • Russian forces carry out 14 airstrikes on Ukrainian units in Kupyansk area

    Date: 2023-09-15 08:25:52 GMT - Russia - World - SN:19 - ID:10346094

    MOSCOW, Sept 15 (MENA) – The crews of Russian attack helicopters and fighter planes have carried out 14 airstrikes on the accumulation of Ukrainian manpower and equipment in the Kupyansk area, Sergey Zybinsky, the spokesman for the Russian ....

  • Shoigu inspects modernization of nuclear subs in Russia's far east

    Date: 2023-09-15 07:47:39 GMT - Russia - World - SN:17 - ID:10346141

    MOSCOW, Sept 15 (MENA) - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected the fulfillment of the defense contracts at the Zvezda plant in the Primorsky territory in Russia's Far East, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday. "Russian Defense ....

  • 4 killed after lift falls in under-construction building in Noida

    Date: 2023-09-15 07:34:22 GMT - India - World - SN:16 - ID:10346121

    NEW DELHI, Sept 15 (MENA) - At least four workers were killed and five others injured after a lift in an under-construction building in Uttar Pradesh's Noida fell on Friday. The incident took place at the Amrapali Dream Valley housing society in ....

  • Japanese PM to visit New York from Sept. 19 for U.N. assembly

    Date: 2023-09-15 07:27:57 GMT - Japan - World - SN:15 - ID:10346112

    TOKYO, Sept 15 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit New York next week to attend the U.N. General Assembly as well as related meetings and events, the government was quoted by Kyodo News as saying Friday. Kishida is scheduled ....

  • Zelenskyy to visit Washington, DC next week: Sources

    Date: 2023-09-15 07:17:38 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:10346091

    WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (MENA) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to visit Washington, D.C. next week, after his trip to the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, multiple sources familiar with the preparations told ABC ....

  • Magnitude 4.2 quake jolts Bukidnon

    Date: 2023-09-15 07:03:29 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:12 - ID:10346077

    MANILA, Sept 15 (MENA) - A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck Bukidnon Thursday night, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). The tremor, which was tectonic in origin, struck at 9:46 p.m. and had a depth of ....

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