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  • FDA authorizes Coronavirus booster shots for all adults

    Date: 2021-11-19 18:12:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:70 - ID:9277975

    WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (MENA)- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday authorized booster shots of both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for everyone 18 and older, opening up eligibility to tens of millions more fully vaccinated ....

  • Greece imposes restrictions on unvaccinated people

    Date: 2021-11-19 14:03:03 GMT - Greece - World - SN:47 - ID:9277759

    ATHENS, Nov 19 (MENA) - Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece announced additional restrictions for the country’s unvaccinated population on Thursday, a bid to keep a recent spike of coronavirus infections from increasing further, Fox news ....

  • Earthquake of magnitude 4.3 strikes Afghanistan's Kabul

    Date: 2021-11-19 12:25:31 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:39 - ID:9277585

    KABUL, Nov 19 (MENA) - An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale struck 202 km NNW of Kabul in Afghanistan, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) reported on Friday as quoted by CBS news. "Earthquake of Magnitude:4.3, Occurred on ....

  • China lauds Putin’s comments on partner relations with Russia

    Date: 2021-11-19 12:11:16 GMT - Russia - World - SN:37 - ID:9277458

    BEIJING, Nov 19 (MENA) - Beijing gave high marks to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments on Chinese-Russian relations and will constantly bolster the strategic partnership with Russia, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said on ....

  • Flight headed from Russia to Kazakhstan receives bomb threat, says Kazakh official

    Date: 2021-11-19 11:34:40 GMT - Russia - World - SN:32 - ID:9277464

    NUR-SULTAN, Nov 19 (MENA) - An unidentified individual threatened to blow up an Air Astana flight headed from the Russian city of St. Petersburg to Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana, Spokesman for the Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure ....

  • Philippines to reopen 'soon' to vaccinated foreign tourists

    Date: 2021-11-19 10:46:18 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:26 - ID:9277361

    MANILA, Nov 19 (MENA) - The Philippines has approved a plan to allow entry soon to foreign tourists vaccinated against COVID-19, its tourism ministry said on Friday as quoted by Fox news. The coronavirus task force "approved in principle the ....

  • Russia confirms 37,156 new COVID-19 cases over past 24 hours

    Date: 2021-11-19 10:37:28 GMT - Russia - World - SN:23 - ID:9277345

    MOSCOW, Nov 19 (MENA) - Russia has confirmed 37,156 COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 9,257,068, the official monitoring and response center said Friday. Meanwhile, the national COVID-19 death toll grew by ....

  • Ukraine arrests suspects, including US citizen, for plotting assassination of food min.

    Date: 2021-11-19 08:16:22 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:12 - ID:9277038

    KIEV, Nov 19 (MENA) - Ukrainian law enforcement officers have detained a group of individuals, including a US citizen, who were planning to assassinate Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Roman Leshchenko, Interior Minister Denys ....

  • Angola receives over one million doses of Astrazeneca vaccine

    Date: 2021-11-18 12:20:58 GMT - Angola - World - SN:50 - ID:9276024

    LUANDA, Nov 18 (MENA) - Angola received a batch of 1.1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, in a donation from the Republic of France, according to Angola Press agency on Thursday. With this third donation, as the first being 100,800 doses, the ....

  • Germany reports 65,371 new Covid-19 cases

    Date: 2021-11-18 10:13:17 GMT - Germany - World - SN:33 - ID:9275545

    BERLIN, Nov 18 (MENA) - Germany recorded its highest daily number of coronavirus cases on Thursday with more than 65,000 new infections, as officials warned that many hospitals were at the limits of their capacity, according to media reports. The ....

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