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Over 140 cultural relics unearthed in NW China
Date: 2022-08-11 07:42:58 GMT - China - World - SN:12 - ID:9714663
BEIJING, Aug 11 (MENA) - Archaeologists have unearthed more than 140 cultural relics from six Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) tombs in Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday. The ....
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Prices set to rise in Japan for over 10,000 food items on weak yen
Date: 2022-08-11 07:37:07 GMT - Japan - World - SN:11 - ID:9714627
TOKYO, Aug 11 (MENA) - Food prices will continue to surge in Japan for the latter half of 2022, with more than 10,000 items set to rise in price from August onward as import costs of materials become more expensive due to a weaker yen, according to ....
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5.417 million Ukrainian refugees cross into Poland in past 24hrs
Date: 2022-08-11 07:28:36 GMT - Poland - World - SN:8 - ID:9714573
WARSAW, Aug 11 (MENA) - Over 5.417 million refugees from Ukraine had crossed the border with Poland since the start of the Russian military operation, announced Poland's Border Guard on Thursday. As many as 24,400 refugees crossed the ....
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Canadian police arrest 22 in crackdown on gun and drug smugglers
Date: 2022-08-11 06:44:07 GMT - Canada - World - SN:4 - ID:9714571
OTTAWA, Aug 11 (MENA) - Canadian police arrested 22 people, seized 27 handguns and drugs worth C$1.3 million ($1 million) during a 10-month investigation into a gun- and drug-trafficking network operating in Canada and the United States, authorities ....
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'Iran will face severe consequences' if US citizens are attacked: White House
Date: 2022-08-10 22:18:02 GMT - USA - World - SN:90 - ID:9714460
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (MENA) - The White House warned Tehran against attacking US citizens on Wednesday after the Justice Department revealed that a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hatched plans to assassinate former Trump ....
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Japan's daily COVID-19 cases hit record high of 250,403
Date: 2022-08-10 20:30:25 GMT - Japan - World - SN:85 - ID:9714402
TOKYO, Aug 10 (MENA) - Japan logged 250,403 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, a daily record high, amid concerns over a strain on the medical system due to a new wave of the pandemic, Kyodo news agency reported. Fueled by the highly transmissible ....
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Antarctica’s ‘sleeping giant’ risks melting, threatens spike in sea levels
Date: 2022-08-10 20:01:39 GMT - USA - World - SN:83 - ID:9714366
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (MENA) - Scientists say the window for protecting the world’s largest ice sheet from significantly shrinking is narrowing, with troubling new predictions that it has the potential to unleash sea level rises of up to 16½ feet over ....
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Germany plans tax changes to help households cope with inflation
Date: 2022-08-10 16:40:08 GMT - Germany - World - SN:70 - ID:9714125
BERLIN, Aug 10 (MENA) - Germany's finance ministry plans to raise income tax thresholds and slightly increase child benefits in response to the highest inflation in the country in decades, euro news reported. The tax-free allowance will rise to ....
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US downplays tensions with China amid fears of military escalation
Date: 2022-08-10 15:56:06 GMT - USA - World - SN:61 - ID:9714065
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (MENA) - Following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) high-profile trip showing solidarity with Taiwan, Washington and Taipei are taking drastically different tracks toward China’s retaliatory military drills encircling the ....
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John Hopkins: Coronavirus cases worldwide exceed 586 mln
Date: 2022-08-10 12:24:52 GMT - USA - World - SN:38 - ID:9713611
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (MENA) - As many as 586,511,476 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) reported on Wednesday. It added that about 6,423,998 have died from the virus ....
