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  • Climate, chaos and war fill a doomy agenda at Davos--Paper

    Date: 2024-01-14 15:42:33 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:52 - ID:10533330

    LONDON, Jan 14 (MENA) - The World Economic Forum has already wrestled with pandemic and recession, but the troubles keep coming, the limos have been booked, the Guardian reporetd Sunday. Hotels have loaded up with champagne. Shops have been ....

  • North Korean FM visits Moscow

    Date: 2024-01-14 11:49:04 GMT - Russia - World - SN:29 - ID:10532966

    MOSCOW, Jan 14 (MENA) - North Korea's foreign minister will visit Russia this coming week, state media reported Sunday. "Choe Son Hui, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, will pay an official visit to the ....

  • AP: Intense winter weather could see low-temperature records set in US heartland

    Date: 2024-01-14 11:48:09 GMT - USA - World - SN:28 - ID:10532930

    WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (MENA) - Icy winter weather blanketed the U.S. on Saturday as a wave of Arctic storms threatened to break low-temperature records in the heartland, spread cold and snow from coast to coast and cast a chill over everything from ....

  • UN sets December deadline for its peacekeepers in Congo to completely withdraw

    Date: 2024-01-14 08:06:36 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - World - SN:11 - ID:10532543

    KINSHAHA, Jan 14 (MENA) - The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, which helped in the fight against rebels for more than two decades before being asked by the Congolese government to leave, will complete its withdrawal from the Central African ....

  • Russia’s military death toll in Ukraine up to 370,000

    Date: 2024-01-14 07:18:30 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:8 - ID:10532445

    KIEV, Jan 14 (MENA) - Russia has already lost about 370,000 troops in Ukraine (+840 over the past day). The relevant statement was made by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent ....

  • Japan’s Kishida visits quake-hit region

    Date: 2024-01-14 06:58:22 GMT - Japan - World - SN:6 - ID:10532444

    TOKYO, Jan 14 (MENA) - Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Sunday the country’s north-central region of Noto for the first time since the deadly Jan. 1 earthquakes to check on relief work, according to Kyodo news agency. The magnitude ....

  • Russia condemns attempts by some countries to use Taiwanese vote for pressuring China

    Date: 2024-01-13 23:02:11 GMT - Russia - World - SN:67 - ID:10532362

    MOSCOW, Jan 13 (MENA) – Attempts by some countries to use the recent elections in Taiwan to put pressure on Beijing and destabilize the situation in the region are counterproductive and reprehensible, Tass quoted Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman ....

  • John Kerry to step down as Biden admin climate czar: report

    Date: 2024-01-13 23:01:57 GMT - USA - World - SN:66 - ID:10532361

    WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (MENA) – US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry is reportedly planning to leave the White House in the coming months and join President Biden's presidential campaign, Axios reported on Saturday. Kerry, who ran ....

  • 1,200 JN.1 cases recorded in India

    Date: 2024-01-13 19:55:43 GMT - India - World - SN:64 - ID:10532303

    NEW DELHI, Jan 13 (MENA) – India has recorded a total of 1,200 cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 so far across 17 states and Union territories with Nagaland becoming the latest state to report a JN.1 infection, the INSACOG said on Saturday. As ....

  • DPP wins Taiwan’s presidency but loses majority in Legislature

    Date: 2024-01-13 19:44:15 GMT - Taiwan - World - SN:63 - ID:10532292

    TAIPEI CITY, Jan 13 (MENA) – Taiwan’s vice president, Lai Ching-te has won Taiwan’s presidential election, giving the Democratic Progressive Party an unprecedented third term running the country, Taiwan Focus reported. In a three-way race, Lai ....

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