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Biden pushes Putin for Ukraine de-escalation in second call this month
Date: 2021-12-31 06:54:23 GMT - USA - World - SN:2 - ID:9344540
WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the hope of defusing an unremitting crisis on Russia's border with Ukraine, CNN reported on Friday. In the phone call, Biden urged Putin to ....
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Austria will suspend lockdown for unvaccinated during holidays
Date: 2021-12-30 22:49:23 GMT - Austria - World - SN:83 - ID:9344493
VIENNA, Dec 30 (MENA) - Austria will suspend a lockdown for the unvaccinated during year-end holidays, giving respite from one of the toughest coronavirus policies in Europe, Bloomberg reported. Unvaccinated people will be allowed to meet in ....
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Georgia's ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili transferred back to prison
Date: 2021-12-30 22:49:08 GMT - Georgia - World - SN:82 - ID:9344494
TBILISI, Dec 30 (MENA) - Georgia's ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili was transferred back to prison early Thursday morning after undergoing treatment following a hunger strike, authorities said in a statement. According to reports, Saakashvili's ....
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Former Reagan adviser Suzanne Massie obtains Russian citizenship — Putin’s decree
Date: 2021-12-30 22:48:03 GMT - Russia - World - SN:80 - ID:9344492
MOSCOW, Dec 30 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted citizenship to an American writer, former adviser to President Ronald Reagan on the USSR, Suzanne Massie on Thursday, TASS reported. "Adopt the following persons into the ....
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Top Russian, Azerbaijani diplomats discuss normalizing ties
Date: 2021-12-30 22:47:49 GMT - Azerbaijan - World - SN:79 - ID:9344490
BAKU, Dec 30 (MENA) - Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov of Russia and Jeyhun Bayramov of Azerbaijan had a phone call where they addressed the developments in the region and the normalization of relations between Baku and Yerevan, the Azerbaijani ....
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Study finds nearly all children seriously ill with COVID-19 were not fully vaccinated
Date: 2021-12-30 22:47:34 GMT - USA - World - SN:78 - ID:9344484
WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (MENA) - Only a small fraction of children hospitalized for COVID-19 have been fully vaccinated, according to a report released Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC said that 0.4 percent ....
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Ukraine sees no great danger on the border, top security official says
Date: 2021-12-30 21:59:08 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:75 - ID:9344483
KIEV, Dec 30 (MENA) - Ukraine sees neither any great danger on the country’s borders nor aggression from Russia, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Alexey Danilov said at a briefing on Thursday. "We don’t see any great danger on our ....
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UK reports record 189,213 COVID cases, 332 deaths
Date: 2021-12-30 21:54:33 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:71 - ID:9344472
LONDON, Dec 30 (MENA) - The United Kingdom recorded 189,213 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, a daily record, and 332 deaths, government data showed. Case numbers were up from the previous record of 183,037 on Wednesday, with infections being ....
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At least 4 killed, 15 injured in Pakistan Quetta blast
Date: 2021-12-30 19:28:38 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:67 - ID:9344357
ISLAMABAD, Dec 30 (MENA) - At least four persons were killed and 15 others injured in a blast near Science College on Quetta’s Jinnah Road on Thursday. The death toll has been confirmed by Balochistan Health Department media coordinator Dr Wasim ....
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Hungary sends 100,000 vaccines to Armenia
Date: 2021-12-30 19:28:19 GMT - Armenia - World - SN:66 - ID:9344292
YEREVAN, Dec 30 (MENA) – Hungary’s government has donated 100,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to Armenia, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Facebook on Wednesday. The cargo plane owned by the government left Budapest this morning to ....
