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Japan expands sanctions against N. Korea over ICBM launch
Date: 2022-04-01 07:05:34 GMT - Japan - World - SN:7 - ID:9501088
TOKYO, April 1 (MENA) - The Japanese government on Friday announced additional sanctions on North Korea over its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch last week, Yonhap news agency reported. Six North Koreans, three Russians and four ....
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S. Korea's new COVID-19 cases dip below 300,000 as omicron wave tops out
Date: 2022-04-01 06:16:26 GMT - south korea - World - SN:3 - ID:9501028
SEOU, April 1 (MENA) - South Korea's new daily COVID-19 cases dipped below 300,000 on Friday as the omicron wave that gripped the country for months appears to be topping out with one in every four people having had the virus, Yonhap news agency ....
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JHU: Global coronavirus cases exceed 488mn
Date: 2022-04-01 06:12:15 GMT - USA - World - SN:2 - ID:9501024
WASHINGTON, April 1 (MENA) - The overall global Covid-19 caseload topped 488 million and the deaths surged to more than six million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In its latest update, JHU revealed on Friday that the current ....
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Russia bans EU leadership after sanctions
Date: 2022-03-31 22:53:43 GMT - Russia - World - SN:113 - ID:9500931
MOSCOW, March 31 (MENA) – Russia on Thursday said it will expand the list of EU figures banned from entering the country following Western sanctions over Moscow’s military actions in Ukraine. “The restrictions apply to the top leadership of the ....
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OPEC ditches IEA data for assessing compliance with production quotas
Date: 2022-03-31 22:03:43 GMT - Austria - World - SN:111 - ID:9500920
VIENNA, March 31 (MENA) - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Thursday held an unusual brief extraordinary meeting to ditch the International Energy Agency from its list of trusted data contributors, an OPEC source said on ....
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Germany boosts humanitarian aid for Ukraine with euros 370 mn
Date: 2022-03-31 20:46:23 GMT - Germany - World - SN:105 - ID:9500885
BERLIN, March 31 (MENA) - Germany's Federal Government has now launched a major humanitarian support package amounting to a total of 370 million euro. Since the start of the war of aggression against Ukraine, 18 million people have been in need ....
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OPEC+ sticks to modest oil output increase
Date: 2022-03-31 19:02:56 GMT - Austria - World - SN:97 - ID:9500728
VIENNA, March 31 (MENA) - OPEC and its Russia-led allies on Thursday stuck to their policy of modest oil production increases despite Western pressure to step up production as the Ukraine conflict has rocked the market, Al Arabiya reported. The ....
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IFAD president: 30% of food production is wasted
Date: 2022-03-31 17:38:31 GMT - United Arab Emirates - World - SN:87 - ID:9500428
DUBAI, March 31 (MENA) - President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Gilbert F. Houngbo said that 30 percent of the food production is lost or wasted. "The food security challenges are now high, and on every world ....
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Foreign Secretary announces sanctions on Putin’s propaganda
Date: 2022-03-31 13:19:55 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:61 - ID:9500237
LONDON, March 31 (MENA) - Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has announced 14 new sanctions on Russian propagandists and state media who spread lies and deceit about Putin’s illegal military campaign against Ukraine, The Guardian newspaper ....
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Canberra investing more on trade diversification in the face of Beijing’s ‘economic coercion’
Date: 2022-03-31 10:59:07 GMT - Australia - World - SN:47 - ID:9499832
CANBERRA, March 31 (MENA) - Australia will invest more to find new buyers for its exports in an effort to ease trade dependence on China, its treasurer said, in the face of “economic coercion” from Beijing that shows little sign of abating. In an ....
