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  • White House nominates top Army general to lead Central Command

    Date: 2022-01-07 13:47:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:35 - ID:9355302

    WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (MENA) - The White House has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla to lead the US Central Command, The Hill reported. The Senate received a nomination for Kurilla on Wednesday and referred it to the Senate Armed ....

  • One killed, 2 injured in helicopter crash in Russia’s Bashkortostan

    Date: 2022-01-07 13:17:39 GMT - Russia - World - SN:33 - ID:9355405

    MOSCOW, Jan 7 (MENA) - One person was killed and two more were injured after a helicopter crash-landed late on Thursday night near a residential area in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, a source in the local Emergencies Ministry’s department ....

  • Japan registers 6,214 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2022-01-07 12:33:58 GMT - Japan - World - SN:29 - ID:9355286

    TOKYO, Jan 7 (MENA) - Japan registered 6,214 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country's total to 1,750,703, Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday. One coronavirus-linked death was recorded, pushing the nationwide death toll to ....

  • India registers 377 new Omicron cases

    Date: 2022-01-07 11:56:19 GMT - India - World - SN:27 - ID:9355283

    NEW DELHI, Jan 7 (MENA) - India reported 377 new cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, taking the overall tally to 3,007, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Friday. According to the Health Ministry, at least 1,199 out of 3,007 ....

  • Russia reports 16,735 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2022-01-07 09:43:45 GMT - Russia - World - SN:15 - ID:9355073

    MOSCOW, Jan 7 (MENA) - Russia recorded 16,735 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Friday. The total number of cases has reached 10,618,035, the center added. Russia recorded 787 coronavirus-linked ....

  • US State secretary, Kazakh FM discuss ongoing state of emergency in Kazakhstan

    Date: 2022-01-07 09:31:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:9355051

    WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (MENA) - US State Secretary Antony Blinken spoke by telephone with his Kazakhstan counterpart Mukhtar Tileuberdi regarding the ongoing state of emergency in Kazakhstan, the US State Department said in a press release on Friday. ....

  • Philippines records 21,819 more COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2022-01-07 08:57:06 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:10 - ID:9355011

    MANILA, Jan 7 (MENA) - The Philippines on Friday reported an all-time high of 40 percent positivity rate, registering 21,819 new COVID-19 cases, data from the Department of Health (DOH) showed. The Philippines has reported a total of 2,910,664 ....

  • Bulk of Russia’s CSTO peacekeeping forces ready to take off to Kazakhstan

    Date: 2022-01-07 08:55:03 GMT - Russia - World - SN:9 - ID:9354987

    MOSCOW, Jan 7 (MENA) - The bulk of the Russian peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is ready to take off to Kazakhstan from several airfields across Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on ....

  • Czech Republic reports 6,641 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2022-01-07 08:53:47 GMT - Czech - World - SN:8 - ID:9354988

    PRAGUE, Jan 7 (MENA) - The Czech Republic registered 6,641 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, Radio Prague International reported Friday. The new coronavirus infection tally is nearly 900 cases more than the number that has been reported ....

  • JHU: Global coronavirus cases hit 300,173,145

    Date: 2022-01-07 07:04:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:4 - ID:9354875

    WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (MENA) - As many as 300,173,145 people are reported to have been infected with the coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said on Friday. It added that 5,472,263 people have died from the virus worldwide. The US ....

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