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  • JHU: COVID-19 infections exceed 590 mln

    Date: 2022-08-15 15:26:37 GMT - USA - World - SN:53 - ID:9721752

    WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (MENA) - As many as 590,388,791 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) reported on Monday. It said that 6,435,768 have died from the virus worldwide. The US ....

  • Russian diplomat warns US against interfering in investigations in other countries

    Date: 2022-08-15 12:24:34 GMT - Russia - World - SN:36 - ID:9721464

    MOSCOW/WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (MENA) - Washington should not interfere in investigations conducted in other countries the way it’s not interfering in an investigation into the White House and the US Department of State, Russian Foreign Ministry ....

  • Poland receives more than 5.5 mn refugees from Ukraine

    Date: 2022-08-15 11:46:44 GMT - Poland - World - SN:33 - ID:9721408

    WARSAW, Aug 15 (MENA) - Some 5.519 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed the border with Poland since the start of the Russian military operation, Radio Poland said on Monday citing figures from Poland's Border Guard agency. About 24,000 ....

  • UAE, US discuss boosting military cooperation

    Date: 2022-08-15 11:45:29 GMT - United Arab Emirates - World - SN:32 - ID:9721367

    ABU DHABI, Aug 15 (MENA) - Lt. General Hamad Mohammed Thani al-Rumaithi, Chief of Staff of the UAE Armed Forces, received on Monday Lieutenant-General Michael Corella, Commander of the US Central Command, the UAE news agency reported. During the ....

  • China announces new drills around Taiwan

    Date: 2022-08-15 10:33:16 GMT - China - World - SN:20 - ID:9721154

    BEIJING, Aug 15 (MENA) - China announced more military drills around Taiwan as the island's president met with members of a new US congressional delegation on Monday. The patrols and exercises conducted in the "sea and air space around Taiwan” ....

  • Japan records more than 138,000 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2022-08-15 10:02:10 GMT - Japan - World - SN:18 - ID:9721166

    TOKYO, Aug 15 (MENA) - Japan registered 138,613 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total infections to 15,812,661, Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported Monday. Also 204 new coronavirus-linked deaths were ....

  • India records 14,917 COVID cases over 24 hours

    Date: 2022-08-15 07:17:59 GMT - India - World - SN:9 - ID:9720805

    NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (MENA) - India registered 14,917 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, upping the total number to 44,268,381, NDTV reported. The active cases increased to 117,508, according to data updated by the Union Health ....

  • Man crashed into barrier near US Capitol, opened fire before shooting himself, police say

    Date: 2022-08-14 19:44:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:90 - ID:9720485

    WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (MENA) - A man driving a car struck a barrier near the US Capitol early Sunday morning and opened fire before fatally shooting himself, police were quoted by CBS News as saying. The man crashed into the barrier on the east side ....

  • 1 dead, 17 injured after car plows into crowd raising money for victims of fatal fire

    Date: 2022-08-14 10:47:16 GMT - USA - World - SN:27 - ID:9719113

    WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (MENA) - A man plowed his car through a crowd of people in Pennsylvania on Saturday, leaving one person dead and 17 others injured before he fled and killed a woman in a nearby town, The Washington Post newspaper reported. The ....

  • Afghan minister to visit Russia for talks on oil, food purchases -- Diplomat

    Date: 2022-08-14 10:02:55 GMT - Russia - World - SN:18 - ID:9718979

    MOSCOW, Aug 14 (MENA) - Afghan Minister of Industry and Trade, Nuriddin Azizi will come to Moscow for talks on Russia’s oil, wheat, sunflower oil purchases on August 15, Russian Ambassador in Kabul Dmitry Zhirnov told RIA Novosti. Economists and ....

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