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  • Farmer arrested in connection with forest fires in Cyprus

    Date: 2021-07-05 09:20:52 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:21 - ID:9044684

    NICOSIA, July 5 (MENA) - A farmer has been arrested for possibly causing the fires that broke out in Cyprus on Saturday, burning forest land and leading to the death of four Egyptian workers, Financial Mirror reported Monday. Limassol District ....

  • Russian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif temporarily closes for security reasons

    Date: 2021-07-05 08:57:35 GMT - Russia - World - SN:19 - ID:9044627

    MOSCOW, July 5 (MENA) - Work at the Russian consulate general in Mazar-e-Sharif will be temporarily suspended due to escalating insecurity in northern Afghanistan. Russian Special Representative on Afghanistan Ambassador Zamir Kabulov said ....

  • Russia's FSB foils Daesh attacks in Moscow, Astrakhan, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic

    Date: 2021-07-05 08:37:39 GMT - Russia - World - SN:18 - ID:9044590

    MOSCOW, July 5 (MENA) - Russia's federal security service FSB has foiled terrorist attacks by the outlawed Daesh group in Moscow and the Astrakhan region, as well as Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. Six militants have been killed and two others ....

  • US condoles with Filipinos over deadly C-130 crash in Sulu

    Date: 2021-07-05 08:16:56 GMT - USA - World - SN:17 - ID:9044451

    WASHINGTON, July 5 (MENA) - The United States expressed sympathy to the Philippines following the deadly crash of a C-130 plane on Sunday in Sulu, killing dozens of soldiers and some civilians, ABS-CBN News reported. US National Security Advisor ....

  • Global Covid-19 caseload tops 183 mn

    Date: 2021-07-05 07:51:05 GMT - USA - World - SN:15 - ID:9044489

    WASHINGTON, July 5 (MENA) - The overall global Covid-19 caseload topped 183 million and the deaths surged to more than 3.97 million, according to CNN. In its latest update, Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering ....

  • Afghan MPs: US expanding war in Afghanistan

    Date: 2021-07-05 07:41:26 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:14 - ID:9044465

    KABUL, July 5 (MENA) - Members of the Afghan parliament have accused the United States of widening and extending the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, according to Khaama Press. MPs said the US with its current stance in Afghanistan is striving to ....

  • Huge explosion at chemical factory leaves 21 injured

    Date: 2021-07-05 07:08:35 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:12 - ID:9044376

    BANGKOK, July 5 (MENA) - A huge explosion and fire destroyed a factory producing plastic foam and plastic pellets and caused extensive damage to surrounding communities in Bang Phli district early Monday morning, Bangkok Post reported. Twenty-one ....

  • British PM to confirm 19 July end to Covid rules despite scientists’ warnings

    Date: 2021-07-05 07:06:54 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:11 - ID:9044394

    LONDON, July 5 (MENA) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to announce that the lifting of most remaining Covid-19 restrictions in England will go ahead on 19 July amid a backlash from government scientific advisers who have warned that doing ....

  • India records 39,796 new COVID-19 cases, 723 deaths

    Date: 2021-07-05 06:50:05 GMT - India - World - SN:10 - ID:9044375

    NEW DELHI, July 5 (MENA) - In a single day, India saw a rise of 39,796 new Covid infections, which took the tally of cases to 30,585,229, while the death count climbed to 402,728 with 723 more fatalities, the lowest in around 88 days, NDTV reported ....

  • Philippine Air Force plane crash death toll rises to 50

    Date: 2021-07-05 06:38:26 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:8 - ID:9044364

    MANILA, July 5 (MENA) - Fifty people were killed when a Philippine Air Force plane crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday, CNN reported Monday. The C-130 military plane was transporting troops from Cagayan de Oro, in Mindanao, to Sulu ....

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