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  • New U.S. coronavirus cases rise by 12 percent as nation braces for fourth pandemic wave

    Date: 2021-03-30 08:41:33 GMT - USA - World - SN:21 - ID:8880467

    WASHINGTON, March 30 (MENA) - New coronavirus cases in the United States continued to rise this week, jumping by as much as 12 percent nationwide as senior officials implored Americans to stick to public health measures to help reverse the trend, ....

  • Blinken, Guterres discuss situation in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan

    Date: 2021-03-30 05:55:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:4 - ID:8880212

    WASHINGTON, March 30 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a virtual meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss US priorities at the United Nations, the Department of State said in a statement. They focused on the ....

  • S.Korea reports 447 new Covid cases

    Date: 2021-03-30 05:30:25 GMT - south korea - World - SN:2 - ID:8880202

    SEOUL, March 30 (MENA) - South Korea's daily COVID-19 cases climbed back over 400 on Tuesday after briefly falling to the 300s for one day, KBS reported. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said Tuesday that 447 new cases were ....

  • Russia reports 8,711 new coronavirus cases, 293 deaths

    Date: 2021-03-29 10:01:49 GMT - Russia - World - SN:38 - ID:8878641

    MOSCOW, March 29 (MENA) - Russia reported 8,711 new coronavirus cases on Monday, including 1,612 in Moscow, which pushed the national tally to 4,528,543 since the pandemic began. The government coronavirus taskforce said that 293 deaths had been ....

  • Lockdown easing sees swimming and tennis return as Britons urged to ‘stay cautious’

    Date: 2021-03-29 09:31:43 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:35 - ID:8878468

    LONDON, March 29 (MENA) - Outdoors sports and leisure activities such as football and cricket pitches, tennis and basketball courts and outdoor swimming pools have reopened in Britain. Organized team sport can also resumed, the Independent ....

  • U.S., Japan, S Korea eye foreign ministers' meeting in April

    Date: 2021-03-29 09:13:05 GMT - Japan - World - SN:34 - ID:8878504

    TOKYO, March 29 (MENA) - The United States, Japan and South Korea are arranging a meeting of their foreign ministers, possibly in late April, a diplomatic source with knowledge of the plan said, with policy coordination on China and North Korea ....

  • Australian PM reshuffles two cabinet ministers

    Date: 2021-03-29 08:02:54 GMT - Australia - World - SN:25 - ID:8878331

    CANBERRA, March 29 (MENA) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has removed a minister accused of rape from his role as the nation's chief law officer, after weeks of pressure, Russia Today reported. Christian Porter will no longer be ....

  • 17 civilians killed, injured in Afghan security operations in Khost province

    Date: 2021-03-29 07:44:09 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:22 - ID:8878222

    KABUL, March 29 (MENA) - Afghan local sources said that at least 17 people including women and children were killed in government-backed military operations that were launched two nights ago in Khost province, in southeast Afghanistan. The ....

  • 6 security elements killed, injured in car blast in Afghanistan's Helmand province

    Date: 2021-03-29 07:21:56 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:20 - ID:8878257

    KABUL, March 29 (MENA) - Two security force members were killed and four more were wounded in a car bomb attack on a security outpost in the southern province of Helmand on Sunday night, Tolo News reported quoting a security source as saying on ....

  • Coronavirus cases around world exceed 127mn

    Date: 2021-03-29 07:07:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:19 - ID:8878219

    WASHINGTON, March 29 (MENA) - Johns Hopkins University announced that the total number of coronavirus cases reached 127,116,964 million around the world. The fatalities from the pandemic reached 2,783,689 million cases, JHU said. (MENA) M A ....

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