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  • Boat with 185 Rohingya refugees lands in Indonesia's Aceh

    Date: 2023-01-08 13:09:37 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:29 - ID:9958821

    JAKARTA, Jan 8 (MENA) - A boat with 185 Rohingya refugees landed on the shores of Indonesia's Aceh province on Sunday, a local disaster agency official said, following hundreds who arrived late last year fleeing desperate conditions in refugee camps ....

  • Ukraine: Russian forces shell Kherson region 19 times on Jan 7

    Date: 2023-01-08 11:05:01 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:19 - ID:9958620

    KYIV, Jan 8 (MENA) - Russian forces attacked the Kherson region 19 times on January 7 during the so-called "Christmas truce". Yaroslav Yanushevych, the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, said this in a post on the Telegram ....

  • Japan starts requiring negative COVID-19 tests for travelers from China

    Date: 2023-01-08 06:54:53 GMT - Japan - World - SN:4 - ID:9958237

    TOKYO, Jan 8 (MENA) - Japan further tightened border controls for travelers from mainland China on Sunday, requiring proof of testing negative for COVID-19 amid a surge of cases in the neighboring country, Kyodo news agency reported. The ....

  • Zelensky strips 13 pro-Russia priests of Ukrainian citizenship

    Date: 2023-01-07 18:12:49 GMT - Russia - World - SN:66 - ID:9958010

    MOSCOW, Jan 7 (MENA) - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has signed a decree revoking the Ukrainian citizenship of 13 priests of the canonic Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the local Ukrinform reported Saturday. Recently, Ukrainian law ....

  • Russia seeks to dismantle US-Europe alliance - State Department

    Date: 2023-01-07 18:05:54 GMT - Russia - World - SN:65 - ID:9958006

    WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (MENA) - Samuel Warburg, the regional spokesman for the US State Department, on Saturday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of plotting to dismantle the political alliance between the United States and Europe. Washington ....

  • Only 1 in 5 British trains to run on final day of planned strikes

    Date: 2023-01-07 15:01:08 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:49 - ID:9957643

    LONDON, Jan 7 (MENA) - Only about one in five trains across Great Britain will run on Saturday as a 48-hour walkout by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union concludes, with no early morning or evening services and a pared-back ....

  • 16 Chinese military aircraft cross Taiwan Strait median line

    Date: 2023-01-07 13:41:43 GMT - Taiwan - World - SN:46 - ID:9957599

    TAIPEI, Jan 7 (MENA) - The Taiwanese Ministry of National Defence (MND) tracked 22 Chinese military aircraft and three naval vessels around Taiwan during Friday and Saturday, according to Taiwan News. Sixteen of the People’s Liberation Army ....

  • British PM meets health leaders over NHS pressures

    Date: 2023-01-07 13:11:24 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:43 - ID:9957607

    LONDON, Jan 7 (MENA) - The prime minister, health secretary and Treasury ministers are meeting health experts to help tackle crucial challenges facing the NHS in England, the BBC reported. Reports have emerged of patients spending days on ....

  • U.S. regulators OK Alzheimer's drug developed by Japan's Eisai

    Date: 2023-01-07 11:21:41 GMT - Japan - World - SN:33 - ID:9957373

    TOKYO, Jan 7 (MENA) - U.S. regulators has approved an Alzheimer's drug developed by Japanese drug maker Eisai Co. and U.S. firm Biogen Inc. for treatment in the early stage of the fatal, brain-robbing disease, reported Japanese Kyodo News Agency on ....

  • Judge scolds Trump legal team and lets James’s lawsuit proceed

    Date: 2023-01-07 08:52:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:18 - ID:9957190

    NEW YORK, Jan 7 (MENA) - A New York judge declined on Friday to throw out the state attorney general’s civil fraud case against former President Donald J. Trump, increasing the likelihood that he will face a trial this fall. In a sharply worded ....

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