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Thailand reports 17,345 new coronavirus cases
Date: 2021-07-30 06:56:57 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:4 - ID:9085180
BANGKOK, July 30 (MENA) - Thailand reported 17,345 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total cases to 578,375, the Public Health Ministry announced on Friday. The ministry added that 117 more Covid-19-linked fatalities were ....
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Kazakhstan records 7,778 new coronavirus infections
Date: 2021-07-30 06:56:03 GMT - Kazakhstan - World - SN:3 - ID:9085178
NUR-SULTAN, July 30 (MENA) - Kazakhstan recorded 7,778 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, raising the country’s caseload to 564,885, state news agency Kazinform reported Friday. The Kazakh health ministry said 5,060 more recoveries ....
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Floods kill 40 in northern Afghanistan: officials
Date: 2021-07-29 23:18:37 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:118 - ID:9084996
KABUL, July 29 (MENA) - At least 40 people have been killed with 150 more going missing in northern Afghanistan after flash floods ravaged an area northeast of the capital Kabul, officials said on Thursday. A rescue operation was under way to ....
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US Congress, House pass dlrs 2.1 bn Capitol security bill
Date: 2021-07-29 23:01:41 GMT - USA - World - SN:121 - ID:9085020
WASHINGTON, July 29 (MENA) - The US House and Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would secure funding for the U.S. Capitol and the Capitol Police in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot, which was at risk of having to furlough officers without additional ....
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Thailand registers record number of daily Covid-19 deaths
Date: 2021-07-29 21:46:29 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:116 - ID:9084994
BANKOK, July 29 (MENA) - Thailand registered a record number of daily coronavirus fatalities Thursday as 165 people died over the past day, taking the country’s death toll to 4,562. Cases also jumped to a new single-day high of 17,669 in the last ....
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Biden urges US states to offer residents $100 to get COVID jabs
Date: 2021-07-29 21:38:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:115 - ID:9084990
WASHINGTON, July 29 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden is urging states and localities to offer residents $100 to get COVID-19 shots, Sky News reported. In a statement, the Treasury said that such incentives are an allowable use of funds from the ....
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Blinken: We are determined that Iran will not acquire nuclear weapon
Date: 2021-07-29 21:08:55 GMT - USA - World - SN:110 - ID:9084949
WASHINGTON, July 29 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that the US administration is determined that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon. In exclusive remarks to Sky News Arabia, Blinken pointed out that nuclear ....
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Cuba rejects statement by European Union high representative on disturbances
Date: 2021-07-29 20:54:52 GMT - Cuba - World - SN:108 - ID:9084974
HAVANA, July 29 (MENA) - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Thursday rejected statements by the European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, on the disturbances reported in the country on July 11, Prensa Latina ....
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EU pledges euros 1.7 bn to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Date: 2021-07-29 19:30:57 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:98 - ID:9084830
BRUSSELS, July 29 (MENA) - The European Union and its Member States, as Team Europe, pledged €1.7 billion to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to help transform education systems for more than one billion girls and boys in up to 90 ....
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IsDB pledges to pay out $250m to enhance education in 37 OIC member states
Date: 2021-07-29 16:21:43 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:85 - ID:9084582
CAIRO, July 29 (MENA) - President of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Bandar Hajjar said on Thursday his bank seeks to develop a blended financing mechanism to mobilize funds worth $400 million from development partners. According to a press ....
