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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
