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Alaska gold, copper mine blocked over environmental worries
Date: 2023-02-01 09:35:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:30 - ID:9996827
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (MENA) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an unusually strong step Tuesday and blocked a proposed mine heralded by backers as the most significant undeveloped copper and gold resource in the world because of concerns ....
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Japan, NATO vow to continue sanctions on Russia, ahead of G-7 summit
Date: 2023-02-01 09:33:18 GMT - Japan - World - SN:29 - ID:9996801
TOKYO, Feb 1 (MENA) - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg pledged Wednesday to continue imposing punitive sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine, around three months before Japan hosts the ....
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US defense secretary arrives in Philippines, seeks to speed up EDCA implementation
Date: 2023-02-01 09:15:05 GMT - USA - World - SN:26 - ID:9996788
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (MENA) - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Manila on Tuesday night with Washington set on further bolstering its defense partnership with its treaty ally, the Philippines, according to media reports. Austin, who flew ....
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Poland receives 9.553 mln refugees from Ukraine so far
Date: 2023-02-01 08:15:23 GMT - Poland - World - SN:19 - ID:9996654
WARSAW, Feb 1 (MENA) - A total of 9.553 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed the border with Poland since the start of the Russian military operation, Radio Poland said on Wednesday, citing figures from Poland's Border Guard agency. Nearly ....
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Record number of HIV cases recorded in 2022
Date: 2023-02-01 08:14:11 GMT - Czech - World - SN:18 - ID:9996653
PRAGUE, Feb 1 (MENA) - The number of new cases of HIV recorded in Czechia last year was the highest since 1985, when records began. There were 292 registered new cases in 2022, a rise of 59 on the year before and six more than the highest number ....
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Russian troops hit Kherson region 42 times in past day
Date: 2023-02-01 08:08:55 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:17 - ID:9996649
KIEV, Feb 1 (MENA) - Russian troops shelled Kherson region 42 times over the past day, Ukrinform News Agency reported Wednesday. “The Russian forces attacked the settlements of the region with artillery, MLRS, and mortars. The Russian army ....
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Moscow remains committed to New START, Russian ambassador to US says
Date: 2023-02-01 07:07:48 GMT - USA - World - SN:12 - ID:9996476
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (MENA) - Russia remains committed to New START and plans to keep complying with the treaty, Sputnik reported Wednesday quoting ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov as saying. The US State Department said on Tuesday in a report ....
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Russian military death toll in Ukraine rises to 128,420
Date: 2023-02-01 06:57:12 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:11 - ID:9996479
KIEV, Feb 1 (MENA) - The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 128,420 Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to February 1, 2023, including 920 soldiers over the past day alone. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said ....
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Ukraine's Armed Forces strike more than 20 Russia's concentration areas
Date: 2023-02-01 06:53:29 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:10 - ID:9996477
KIEV, Feb 1 (MENA) - Units of missile troops and artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit 13 areas of Russia's concentration. The Ukrainian Air Force launched nine strikes on Russia's positions and two strikes on their anti-aircraft missile ....
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Philippine President Marcos to visit Japan next week: gov't
Date: 2023-02-01 06:50:09 GMT - Japan - World - SN:9 - ID:9996488
TOKYO, Feb 1 (MENA) - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will visit Japan next week for talks with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Kyodo news agency quoted the government as saying Wednesday. The visit was announced at a time when Tokyo and ....
