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  • U.S. ambassador, U.S. Army Europe and Africa Commander talk assistance to Ukraine

    Date: 2023-01-05 21:10:20 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:101 - ID:9955628

    KYIV, Jan 5 (MENA) - U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink during a meeting in Germany with the commander of the U.S. Army in Europe and Africa, Darryl Williams, discussed further actions to help Ukraine to fight off Russian aggression. That’s ....

  • Biden announces new border control measures, legal pathways to some migrants

    Date: 2023-01-05 21:10:04 GMT - USA - World - SN:100 - ID:9955632

    WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) – The White House is expanding a pandemic-era program allowing the administration to quickly expel people from Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti who illegally cross into the country from Mexico, NPR reported. US President Joe ....

  • NATO Secretary General underlines importance of supporting Ukraine with more weapons

    Date: 2023-01-05 21:09:51 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:99 - ID:9955629

    BRUSSELS, Jan 5 (MENA) - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressed the importance of supporting Ukraine, including with more weapons, in a speech to the Annual Conference of the Norwegian Confederation of Enterprises in Oslo on ....

  • Kevin McCarthy fails on a seventh attempt to win enough votes for House speaker

    Date: 2023-01-05 21:05:31 GMT - USA - World - SN:97 - ID:9955657

    WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) - In the House of Representatives' seventh round of voting for speaker, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy once again failed to get enough votes to win the position, Al Hurra TV reported. McCarthy was on course to lose an ....

  • US says committed to comprehensive partnership with Laos

    Date: 2023-01-05 19:46:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:96 - ID:9955589

    WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) – The United States on Thursday congratulated Sonexay Siphandone on his appointment as Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. In a press release, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said “We are ....

  • Biden hits highest approval rating in more than a year

    Date: 2023-01-05 19:45:51 GMT - USA - World - SN:94 - ID:9955590

    WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) – US President Joe Biden has hit his highest approval rating in more than a year according to FiveThirtyEight’s aggregation of polls out on Thursday. The president kicked off 2022 at 43.3 percent and did not break above ....

  • Poland will keep expanding army and supporting Ukraine in 2023 - minister

    Date: 2023-01-05 17:04:24 GMT - Poland - World - SN:77 - ID:9954961

    WARSAW, Jan 5 (MENA) - Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has said that the government will continue to strengthen the Polish army this year and support Ukraine against Russia's invasion, according to Polish state news agency ....

  • New XBB.1.5 variant will drive next wave of virus in UK, experts warn

    Date: 2023-01-05 14:13:38 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:58 - ID:9954969

    LONDON, Jan 5 (MENA) - The “highly infectious” XBB.1.5 Covid subvariant will drive the next wave of the virus in the UK and its rapid spread in other countries should be a “wake-up call”, experts have warned, according to The Independent. The ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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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