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  • Russia’s Gazprom sends force majeure letter to European customers

    Date: 2022-07-20 07:44:53 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:9678341

    WASHINGTON, July 20 (MENA) - Russia's state-run gas giant Gazprom has warned some European clients that it can no longer guarantee supply to the continent, the latest salvo in an economic dispute between Moscow and Europe over the war in Ukraine, ....

  • Poland receives 4.9 mln refugees from Ukraine

    Date: 2022-07-20 07:26:09 GMT - Poland - World - SN:13 - ID:9678326

    WARSAW, July 20 (MENA) - Some 4.897 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed the border with Poland since the start of the Russian military operation there, Radio Poland said Wednesday quoting Poland's Border Guard. As many as 21,700 refugees ....

  • India reports 20,557 new coronavirus infections

    Date: 2022-07-20 07:19:01 GMT - India - World - SN:11 - ID:9678289

    NEW DELHI, July 20 (MENA) - India's total tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 43,803,619 with 20,557 new coronavirus infections, NDTV reported Wednesday quoting the Union Health Ministry data. The death count climbed to 525,825 with 40 new ....

  • 5.7-magnitude earthquake hits southern Sumatra in Indonesia: EMSC

    Date: 2022-07-20 06:53:41 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:9 - ID:9678274

    JAKARTA, July 20 (MENA) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck southern Sumatra in Indonesia, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Wednesday. The quake was at a depth of 60km, Channel News Asia quoted EMSC as ....

  • New Zealand reports 10,716 new Covid cases

    Date: 2022-07-20 06:49:13 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:8 - ID:9678266

    WELLINGTON, July 20 (MENA) - New Zealand recorded 10,716 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 1,530,186, according to TVNZ. The death tally reached 1,837 in the country, the ....

  • 1 dead, 12 injured in Tianjin gas explosion in north China

    Date: 2022-07-20 06:40:11 GMT - China - World - SN:6 - ID:9678251

    BEIJING, July 20 (MENA) - One person has died in a gas explosion that injured 12 others at a six-story residential building in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday a trapped person pulled out late Tuesday had weak ....

  • Biden signs executive order on Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad

    Date: 2022-07-19 21:34:12 GMT - USA - World - SN:91 - ID:9678101

    WASHINGTON, July 19 (MENA) – US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday that codifies a 2020 law dealing with Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad, ABC News reported. Drawing on the 2020 Robert Levinson Hostage ....

  • UN meeting calls for scaling up climate resilience across food systems to counter rising hunger

    Date: 2022-07-19 16:34:53 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:65 - ID:9677795

    NEW YORK, July 19 (MENA) - Scaling up climate resilience across food systems is among the actions needed to counter rising hunger and malnutrition, UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid said at a special meeting to address the global food ....

  • Russian forces fire up to 40 rockets at Nikopol

    Date: 2022-07-19 08:55:12 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:21 - ID:9676644

    KYIV, July 19 (MENA) - Russian forces fired up to 40 rockets at Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrinform quoted Valentyn Reznichenko, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, as saying in a Telegram post. “Russian troops ....

  • Japan renews focus on nuclear deterrence

    Date: 2022-07-19 08:22:49 GMT - Japan - World - SN:17 - ID:9676534

    TOKYO, July 19 (MENA) - Nuclear deterrence is taking center stage in Japan's security policy after Russia's threat to use nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine, Kyodo reported Tuesday. Tokyo re-emphasized the centrality of the US nuclear ....

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