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Global Covid-19 death toll tops 3 million as countries struggle with variants, vaccinations
Date: 2021-04-17 14:35:48 GMT - all over the world - World - SN:37 - ID:8914030
WORLD CAPITALS, April 17 (MENA) - The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering three million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and ....
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Pandemic made 2020 ‘the year of the quiet ocean’, say scientists
Date: 2021-04-17 12:20:23 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:30 - ID:8913953
LONDON, April 17 (MENA) - The Covid-19 lockdown has produced the quietest year for the world’s oceans in recent memory, The Guardian quoted a group of scientists working on a global map of underwater soundscapes as saying on Saturday. Noise ....
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US forces withdrawing from Afghanistan likely to return to stateside bases
Date: 2021-04-17 11:16:16 GMT - USA - World - SN:28 - ID:8913423
WASHINGTON, April 17 (MENA) - The Pentagon said that most if not all US forces who will be withdrawn from Afghanistan will likely be returning to stateside bases. "We have a robust capability in the Central Command area of operations as it is," ....
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Malaysia: 40 new medical staff infected with Covid-19 after taking vaccines
Date: 2021-04-17 11:00:08 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:27 - ID:8913728
KULA LUMPUR, April 17 (MENA) – Malaysia's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 40 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 among medical staff in the Southeast Asian country. All the reported cases had already taken two shots of the anti-coronavirus ....
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Coronavirus: 72 new cases reported in Afghanistan in 24 hours
Date: 2021-04-17 10:49:42 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:25 - ID:8913730
KABUL, April 17 (MENA) - The Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Saturday reported 72 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,124 samples tested in the past 24 hours, Tolo News reported. The ministry also reported 10 recoveries from COVID-19 in ....
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Afghanistan: Twenty military captives freed from Taliban in Nimroz
Date: 2021-04-17 10:21:19 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:24 - ID:8913483
KABUL, April 17 (MENA) - At least 20 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) who were kept captive by the Taliban have been freed after Afghanistan Special Forces stormed a Taliban prison in the Western Nimroz province ....
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Three Afghan police officers killed in Herat bomb attack
Date: 2021-04-17 09:03:29 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:19 - ID:8913582
KABUL, April 17 (MENA) - Three Afghan police officers were killed in a car bomb attack that targeted an outpost in the Zinda Jan district in the western province of Herat province on Friday evening, Tolo News reported, quoting the provincial ....
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Biden says 'premature' to know if Iran talks will succeed
Date: 2021-04-17 08:35:29 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:8913489
WASHINGTON, April 17 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden said it was too early to know whether indirect talks underway with Iran would succeed in reviving a nuclear accord, Al Arabiya News website reported. Biden said the United States does "not ....
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Afghan forces abort Taliban attempt to carry out bomb attacks in Kandahar
Date: 2021-04-17 08:28:00 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:14 - ID:8913548
KABUL, April 17 (MENA) - Afghan security forces aborted an attempt by Taliban movement to carry out hundreds of bomb attacks in Kandahar. Afghan media reports said on Saturday that security forces managed to defuse more than 300 bombs planted on ....
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Biden says his talks with Japanese prime minister were fruitful
Date: 2021-04-17 04:32:30 GMT - USA - World - SN:2 - ID:8913332
WASHINGTON, April 17 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden described his talks Friday night with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the White House as very fruitful. The talks between the two leaders came at the end of a pivotal week for the ....
