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Poland receives 8.918 mn refugees from Ukraine
Date: 2023-01-05 10:28:01 GMT - Poland - World - SN:40 - ID:9954401
WARSAW, Jan 5 (MENA) - Some 8.918 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed the border with Poland since the start of the Russian military operation, Radio Poland said, citing figures from Poland's Border Guard agency out on Thursday. Poland ....
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Evacuations ordered as California storm knocks out power
Date: 2023-01-05 08:54:25 GMT - USA - World - SN:29 - ID:9954298
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) - Officials in California ordered evacuations in a high-risk coastal area where mudslides killed 23 people in 2018 as a huge storm barreled into the state Wednesday, bringing high winds and rain that threatened widespread ....
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Russia's military death toll in Ukraine reaches 109,720
Date: 2023-01-05 08:28:54 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:23 - ID:9954195
KIEV, Jan 5 (MENA) - The Ukrainian army announced Thursday 109,720 Russian soldiers have been killed since the start of the military operation on February 24, 2022, including 810 soldiers, who were killed Wednesday. From 24 February 2022 to 5 ....
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Amazon will lay off more than 18,000 workers
Date: 2023-01-05 08:24:22 GMT - USA - World - SN:22 - ID:9954228
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) - Amazon says it plans to lay off more than 18,000 employees as the global economic outlook continues to worsen, CNN reported. Several teams will be affected, including the human resources department and Amazon Stores, ....
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China to reopen border with Hong Kong on Jan 8
Date: 2023-01-05 08:08:17 GMT - China - World - SN:20 - ID:9954190
BEIJING, Jan 5 (MENA) - China will begin normalising travel between the mainland and Hong Kong from Sunday (Jan 8), Beijing announced Thursday, easing painful pandemic restrictions that have kept the border mostly sealed for almost three ....
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N. Korean drone penetrated no-fly zone around S. Korea's presidential office: official Defense
Date: 2023-01-05 07:49:41 GMT - south korea - World - SN:17 - ID:9954101
SEOUL, Jan 5 (MENA) - A North Korean drone briefly entered a 3.7-kilometer-radius no-fly zone around the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul last month, a military official belatedly confirmed Thursday, reversing the defense authorities' ....
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Ukraine Air Force strikes enemy positions 25 times over past day
Date: 2023-01-05 07:39:03 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:15 - ID:9954099
KIEV, Jan 5 (MENA) - Ukrainian warplanes and helicopters on Wednesday carried out 25 sorties to engage Russian manpower and equipment clusters. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the news in its morning update, seen by ....
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US edges closer to sending armored weaponry to Ukraine
Date: 2023-01-05 07:24:41 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:9954069
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) - After months of resisting Kyiv’s pleas for tanks to face increasingly dug-in Russian forces along the lengthy southern and eastern fronts, the United States and its allies are now poised to deliver a variety of armored ....
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Macron promises 'first Western tanks' for Ukraine
Date: 2023-01-05 07:20:00 GMT - France - World - SN:13 - ID:9954074
PARIS, Jan 5 (MENA) - France is set to become the first Western country to deliver tanks to Ukraine, the French presidency announced Wednesday after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. The move to supply ....
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White House says it can’t confirm US-supplied heavy artillery system destroyed by Russia in Ukraine
Date: 2023-01-05 06:53:32 GMT - USA - World - SN:8 - ID:9954037
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) - The White House on Wednesday said there was no confirmation of reports from Moscow that the Russian military had destroyed a US-supplied heavy artillery system called HIMARS in Ukraine, The Hill reported. The Russian ....