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  • Cuba's first monkeypox case recorded in Italian tourist

    Date: 2022-08-21 09:57:26 GMT - Cuba - World - SN:18 - ID:9730995

    HAVANA, Aug 21 (MENA) - Cuba reported its first case of monkeypox in an Italian tourist who is in "critical" condition, the Medical Express quoted the health ministry as saying. The patient, who arrived in Cuba Monday and was hospitalized three ....

  • Strike at UK’s biggest port threatens supply chain disruption

    Date: 2022-08-21 08:31:32 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:12 - ID:9730833

    LONDON, Aug 21 (MENA) - Supply chains in the UK face disruption this week as industrial action spreads from the public transport network to the country’s busiest container port, the Financial Times reported. More than 1,900 members of the Unite ....

  • JHU: Global coronavirus cases hit 595,677,066

    Date: 2022-08-21 07:06:28 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:9730701

    WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (MENA) - Some 595,677,066 people are reported to have been infected with the coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said on Sunday. In its latest update, the JHU added that 6,452,769 people have died from the virus ....

  • India reports 11,539 new Covid cases in past 24 hrs

    Date: 2022-08-21 06:28:10 GMT - India - World - SN:6 - ID:9730665

    NEW DELHI, Aug 21 (MENA) - India on Sunday reported 11,539 new Covid-19 cases and 43 deaths in the past 24 hours, NDTV reported. Total infections reached 44,339,429 in the country, the health ministry announced. With the new rise, the total ....

  • Russia accuses Ukraine of carrying out poisonous attack in Zaporizhzhia on July 31

    Date: 2022-08-20 18:54:07 GMT - Russia - World - SN:64 - ID:9730390

    MOSCOW, Aug 20 (MENA) - Russia has accused Ukraine of making use of "poisonous substances" against Russian armed forces in Zaporizhzhia. Russian Defence Ministry remarked that the Ukrainian government had approved a "terrorist act" by using ....

  • 22 dead, 5 missing after flash floods, landslides in India’s Himachal Pradesh

    Date: 2022-08-20 16:27:48 GMT - India - World - SN:52 - ID:9730225

    NEW DELHI, Aug 20 (MENA) - At least 22 people, including eight members of a family, were killed and five others went missing in incidents of landslide, flash flood and cloud burst triggered by heavy rainfall in Himachal Pradesh in the past 24 hours, ....

  • EU gives member states the green light to help energy-intensive businesses

    Date: 2022-08-20 15:25:03 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:47 - ID:9730128

    BRUSSELS, Aug 20 (MENA) - The European Commission is authorizing member states to provide energy-intensive companies with at times significant State aid to offset certain costs, The Brussels Times reported. A case in point is Germany, authorized ....

  • Two more vessels loaded with grain leave Chornomorsk Port

    Date: 2022-08-20 11:36:28 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:29 - ID:9729748

    GENEVA, Aug 20 (MENA) - Two more vessels loaded with Ukrainian-produced grain have left Chornomorsk Port this morning, according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. “As part of grain shipments, two more vessels have left Ukraine’s Chornomorsk ....

  • Chemical tanker, cargo ship crash near southwestern Japan

    Date: 2022-08-20 09:47:17 GMT - Japan - World - SN:21 - ID:9729549

    TOKYO/WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (MENA) - A Japanese chemical tanker ship crashed into a cargo ship off the coast of southwestern Japan, the coast guard said Saturday. No one was injured among the six Japanese crew aboard Ryoshinmaru, the tanker, and 14 ....

  • EC approves €125 million Estonian scheme to support companies in context of Russia's operation in Ukraine

    Date: 2022-08-20 08:52:25 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:17 - ID:9729328

    BRUSSELS, Aug 20 (MENA) – The European Commission has approved a €125 million Estonian scheme to support the liquidity needs of companies across sectors in the context of Russia's operation in Ukraine, according to a press release issued by the ....

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