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Singapore's PM Lee tests positive for COVID-19 days after becoming negative
Date: 2023-06-01 06:39:55 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:10 - ID:10187954
SINGAPORE, June 1 (MENA) - Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has tested positive for COVID-19 again due to a "COVID rebound", Channel News Asia reported. He first tested positive for the disease on May 22. Last Sunday, he said he was ....
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Ukrainian forces down all ten Iskander missiles launched by Russians
Date: 2023-06-01 06:00:46 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:5 - ID:10187913
KIEV, June 1 (MENA) -, the Russian aggressors fired in the night of June 1 ten Iskander missiles at Kyiv city. All of them were destroyed by the air defense forces, according to Ukrinform. This is stated in the report by the General Staff of the ....
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Number of casualties in Russian night attack on Kyiv rising
Date: 2023-06-01 05:31:16 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:1 - ID:10187887
KIEV, June 1 (MENA) - Three people were killed and fourteen more were injured as a result of the Russian night attack on Kyiv, Ukrinform reported, quoting the updated data of the Kyiv City Military Administration. "Unfortunately, the number of ....
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John Kerry embarks on Mideast tour
Date: 2023-05-31 19:46:06 GMT - USA - World - SN:96 - ID:10187693
WASHINGTON, May 31 (MENA) - US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will embark on a Mideast tour that will take him to Amman, Al Quds, Dubai and Oslo, the US State Department announced. During his tour, that will run from May 31 to ....
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'Things are going as planned' on debt ceiling bill -- Biden
Date: 2023-05-31 19:37:30 GMT - USA - World - SN:95 - ID:10187684
WASHINGTON, May 31 (MENA) - US President Biden said Wednesday that he believes that things are going according to plan so far for the House to pass the bipartisan debt ceiling package despite several Democrats and Republicans vowing to vote in ....
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Lavrov arrives in South Africa on visit
Date: 2023-05-31 19:27:34 GMT - Russia - World - SN:93 - ID:10187687
MOSCOW, May 31 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in South Africa on a visit, TASS reported Wednesday. In Cape Town, he will attend a meeting of foreign ministers from the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and ....
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EU renews importance of reducing tobacco consumption
Date: 2023-05-31 08:15:01 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:25 - ID:10186257
BRUSSELS, May 31 (MENA) - European Union (EU) Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides renewed Wednesday importance of reducing tobacco consumption. Kyriakides said in a statement marking the World No Tobacco Day: “Today, tobacco ....
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Key US House committee votes to advance debt ceiling bill
Date: 2023-05-31 06:57:42 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:10186097
WASHINGTON, May 31 (MENA) - A key House of Representatives committee voted to send a bill to suspend the $31.4 trillion US debt ceiling to the full chamber for a Wednesday vote, Alhurra news channel reported. The House Rules Committee voted 7-6 ....
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Putin to meet with president of Eritrea in Moscow - Kremlin
Date: 2023-05-31 06:53:06 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:10186113
MOSCOW, May 31 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerk, who is on an official visit to Russia, TASS news agency said Wednesday quoting a statement by the Kremlin. "Afwerk, who is on an ....
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Russia's military death toll in Ukraine rises to 207,910
Date: 2023-05-31 06:39:56 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:12 - ID:10186083
KIEV, May 31 (MENA) - Ukraine's defense forces killed about 207,910 Russian soldiers between February 24, 2022 and May 31, 2023, including 470 in the past day alone, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in a post on Facebook, ....