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Biden on track to beat Trump's record for fewest resettled refugees
Date: 2021-10-03 15:15:21 GMT - USA - World - SN:62 - ID:9199197
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (MENA) - The Joe Biden administration is on track to resettle the lowest number of refugees in the history of the program despite big promises it would revamp a system decimated under former President Donald Trump. The ....
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New Zealand widens Covid lockdown as Delta spreads outside Auckland
Date: 2021-10-03 10:46:07 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:36 - ID:9198734
WILLINGTON, Oct 3 (MENA) - New Zealand’s Delta Covid variant outbreak has spread beyond Auckland, prompting the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to put additional regions into a snap lockdown, reported The Guardian. There were 32 new coronavirus ....
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Biden urges Americans to get vaccinated, mourns death of 700,000 from Covid-19
Date: 2021-10-03 10:37:19 GMT - USA - World - SN:35 - ID:9198732
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden urged Americans to get vaccinated and mourned the painful milestone of 700,000 American deaths due to COVID-19. In a statement released by the White House on Saturday night, Biden said: "we must ....
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Kishida to take office as Japan prime minister Monday
Date: 2021-10-03 08:09:37 GMT - Japan - World - SN:18 - ID:9198453
TOKYO, Oct 3 (MENA) - Fumio Kishida, the new leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will take office as prime minister on Monday and form his Cabinet, tasked with keeping Covid-19 under control while reviving a battered economy, Kyodo ....
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New Zealand imposes snap lockdown on some regions to curb coronavirus
Date: 2021-10-03 07:56:04 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:17 - ID:9198427
WELLINGTON, Oct 3 (MENA) - New Zealand's Delta variant outbreak spread beyond the largest city of Auckland, prompting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday to put additional regions into a snap lockdown. There were 32 new coronavirus cases on ....
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Pakistani PM, Tajik president exchange views on Afghanistan
Date: 2021-10-03 06:50:47 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:12 - ID:9198388
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3 (MENA) - Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan held a telephonic conversation with Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon on Saturday and exchanged views on the follow-up to the talks held in Dushanbe last month. The Prime Minister ....
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Women take to streets across US to protest Texas abortion law
Date: 2021-10-03 06:25:45 GMT - USA - World - SN:8 - ID:9198373
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (MENA) - Thousands of women across the country took part in a series of 660 marches to protest against the state's most restrictive abortion law, The Daily Mail reported. A crowd of more than 1,000 protesters gathered at the ....
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Trump sues to reinstate his Twitter account
Date: 2021-10-03 05:47:16 GMT - USA - World - SN:6 - ID:9198364
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (MENA) - Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in Florida seeking to force Twitter to reinstate him, arguing the platform’s ban violates the First Amendment and Florida’s new social media law, The Hill newspaper ....
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Colombia has 128 murders of social leaders in 2021 so far
Date: 2021-10-02 20:52:34 GMT - Colombia - World - SN:80 - ID:9198210
BOGTOA, Oct 2 (MENA) - An active member of the Bolivar's Southern Agro-Mines Federation (FAMS), Osorio was found dead in the Bolivar department, according to Telesur news agency on Saturday. Colombia's Institute for Peace and Development Studies ....
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EU humanitarian air bridge delivers life-saving medical aid to Afghanistan
Date: 2021-10-02 18:30:49 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:73 - ID:9198104
BRUSSELS, Oct 2 (MENA) - An EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flight delivered on Saturday over 25 tons of life-saving medical cargo to Kabul to address the dire humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, the European Commission said in a statement. Due to ....
