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  • JHU: Coronavirus cases surpass 566 mn

    Date: 2022-07-21 09:43:51 GMT - USA - World - SN:30 - ID:9680573

    WASHINGTON, July 21 (MENA) - The overall global Covid-19 caseload reached 566,802,702 and deaths surged to more than six million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU) on Thursday. In its latest update, JHU revealed that the current ....

  • Unmanned drones deployed to inspect power lines in east China

    Date: 2022-07-21 08:03:52 GMT - China - World - SN:19 - ID:9680305

    BEIJING, July 21 (MENA) - Nearly 2,000 unmanned drones have been deployed in east China's Jiangsu Province for automatic transmission line inspections, according to State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd., Xinhua reported Thursday. With an ....

  • Save Gas for a Safe Winter: Commission proposes gas demand reduction plan to prepare EU for supply cuts

    Date: 2022-07-21 07:57:57 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:17 - ID:9680276

    BRUSSELS, July 21 (MENA) - The EU Commission is therefore proposing Thursday a new legislative tool and a European Gas Demand Reduction Plan, to reduce gas use in Europe by 15% until next spring, read out a press release by the Commission. All ....

  • US Secretary of State lauds fruitful cooperation with Belgium

    Date: 2022-07-21 07:49:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:9680274

    WASHINGTON, July 21 (MENA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington has ongoing and close cooperation with Belgium in response to Russia’s operation in Ukraine, leading to having stronger bilateral ties with Brussels, according to a ....

  • Japan logs biggest half-year trade deficit due to energy cost, weak yen

    Date: 2022-07-21 07:46:43 GMT - Japan - World - SN:15 - ID:9680288

    TOKYO, July 21 (MENA) - Japan posted its biggest half-year trade deficit of 7.9 trillion yen ($57 billion) in the first half of 2022, inflated by a surge in import costs amid soaring energy prices and the yen's depreciation, Kyodo quoted government ....

  • Poland receives 4.92 mln refugees from Ukraine

    Date: 2022-07-21 07:44:32 GMT - Poland - World - SN:14 - ID:9680287

    WARSAW, July 21 (MENA) - Some 4.92 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed the border with Poland since the start of the Russian military operation there, Radio Poland said Thrusday quoting Poland's Border Guard. As many as 23,500 refugees ....

  • One civilian killed, five more wounded in Russian shelling of Donetsk region

    Date: 2022-07-21 07:32:21 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:13 - ID:9680240

    KYIV, July 21 (MENA) - Russian troops killed one civilian and wounded five more in Donetsk region. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, wrote this on Telegram, Ukrinform reported. "Russia is killing ....

  • Russian gas again flowing into Germany via Nord Stream 1 pipeline

    Date: 2022-07-21 07:30:51 GMT - Germany - World - SN:12 - ID:9680227

    BERLIN, July 21 (MENA) - The Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline reopened as scheduled early Thursday morning, after being closed for annual maintenance work for 10 days, according to the pipeline operator. The president of Germany's Federal Network ....

  • Russia has lost 15,000 soldiers in Ukraine, CIA chief estimates

    Date: 2022-07-21 07:27:32 GMT - USA - World - SN:11 - ID:9680204

    WASHINGTON, July 21 (MENA) - CIA Director William Burns on Thursday estimated that 15,000 Russians have died in Ukraine and some 45,000 have been wounded. Burns, speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in an interview with NBC News said intelligence ....

  • Magnitude 4.6 quake rattles Eastern Samar, nearby areas

    Date: 2022-07-21 07:01:40 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:10 - ID:9680228

    MANILA, July 21 (MENA) - A magnitude 4.6 quake rocked Eastern Samar and nearby areas on Thursday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), ABS-CBN reported. The tectonic tremor struck 18 kilometers ....

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