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  • Japan: No intention to withdraw from oil, LNG projects in Russia

    Date: 2022-04-01 15:52:55 GMT - Japan - World - SN:68 - ID:9501886

    TOKYO, April 1 (MENA) - Japan's economy minister has reiterated that the country will not withdraw from oil and natural gas projects in Russia's Far East. Hagiuda Koichi said they are essential to securing energy supplies. According to NHK, he ....

  • Japan eases COVID-19 warning against travel to 106 nations

    Date: 2022-04-01 15:43:45 GMT - Japan - World - SN:66 - ID:9501908

    TOKYO, April 1 (MENA) - Japan on Friday eased its travel warning for 106 nations including the United States and India over the coronavirus pandemic, no longer recommending Japanese nationals against traveling to the areas, according to Kyodo News ....

  • Covid-19 cases continue to surge in world countries

    Date: 2022-04-01 15:15:25 GMT - all over the world - World - SN:65 - ID:9501602

    WORLD CAPITALS, April 1 (MENA) – Reports of daily Covid-19 infections continued to surge in world countries on Friday. In Hungary, fatalities in the last 24 hours stood at 40 and the cases of new infections registered were 2,327. In Pakistan, ....

  • Foreign-leased planes to be paid for in rubles - Putin

    Date: 2022-04-01 15:11:01 GMT - Russia - World - SN:64 - ID:9501821

    MOSCOW, April 1 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Friday allowing the nation’s airline companies to pay creditors from “unfriendly countries” for the leasing, renting, and purchasing of aircraft in rubles, Russia Today ....

  • Germany reports 252,530 new coronavirus cases, 304 new deaths

    Date: 2022-04-01 15:04:10 GMT - Germany - World - SN:62 - ID:9501737

    BERLIN, April 1 (MENA) - Germany recorded 252,530 news coronavirus cases and 304 deaths in the last 24 hours, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Friday. Coronavirus numbers remain very high in the country, ....

  • OPEC daily basket price stood at dlrs 107.74 a barrel

    Date: 2022-04-01 14:57:09 GMT - Kuwait - World - SN:60 - ID:9501822

    KUWAIT CITY, April 1 (MENA) - The price of OPEC basket of thirteen crudes stood at dlrs 107.74 a barrel on Thursday, compared with dlrs 110.46 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations on its website on Friday. Earlier, OPEC ....

  • Korean president-elect hopes for swift conclusion in S. Korea-GCC FTA talks

    Date: 2022-04-01 14:41:52 GMT - south korea - World - SN:57 - ID:9501747

    SEOUL, April 1 (MENA) - South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol said on Friday that he hopes South Korea and Middle Eastern countries will swiftly reach an agreement in talks for a free trade agreement that will pave the way for expanding ....

  • Russia rejects US assurances on Ukraine's biological program

    Date: 2022-04-01 14:09:30 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:54 - ID:9501595

    AMSTERDAM, April 1 (MENA) - Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alexander Shulgin on Friday condemned assurances of the US Department of Defense on the peacefulness of biological ....

  • A third of the world remains totally unvaccinated against COVID: Tedros

    Date: 2022-04-01 14:04:46 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:53 - ID:9501774

    GENEVA, April 1 (MENA) - A third of the world’s population has yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, including a shocking 83 per cent of all Africans, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). "This is not acceptable to ....

  • Mariupol evacuation Friday not yet certain - Red Cross

    Date: 2022-04-01 13:45:02 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:51 - ID:9501681

    GENEVA, April 1 (MENA) - The Red Cross said it was heading to Mariupol and hoping to evacuate civilians from the Ukrainian city, but it was still unclear if the operation could go ahead, CNN reported. "We remain hopeful, we are in action moving ....

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