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  • Myanmar protesters hold general strike as crowds push for 'five twos revolution'

    Date: 2021-02-22 22:00:20 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:84 - ID:8812896

    LONDON, Feb 22 (MENA) – Protesters across Myanmar have held a general strike, taking to the streets across the country and shutting many businesses, in one of the largest nationwide shows of opposition to the military since it seized power three ....

  • Cyprus reports 131 new coronavirus cases, one death

    Date: 2021-02-22 21:05:58 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:81 - ID:8812895

    NICOSIA, Feb 22 (MENA) – The Cypriot health ministry on Monday announced the death of one man from Covid-19 and 131 new infections from 34,190 tests, a positivity rate of 0.38 per cent, Cyprus Mail reported. Seventy-six people are currently being ....

  • Netherlands reports 4,217 new Covid-19 cases, 32 more deaths in 24 hours

    Date: 2021-02-22 21:05:40 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:80 - ID:8812897

    AMSTERDAM, Feb 22 (MENA) - The seven-day average for coronavirus infections in the Netherlands rose to 4,153 on Monday, the highest that figure has been since the start of February, NL Times reported. The increase was due to another 4,217 people ....

  • Boris Johnson: UK adults to be vaccinated by July 31

    Date: 2021-02-22 20:08:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:77 - ID:8812833

    LONDON, Feb 22 (MENA) – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said all British adults will be offered a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine by July 31, Politico reported. "We will now aim to offer a jab to every adult by the end of July, helping us ....

  • S. Korea to deploy light aircraft carrier by 2033

    Date: 2021-02-22 19:33:15 GMT - south korea - World - SN:73 - ID:8812674

    SEOUL, Feb 22 (MENA) - South Korea will push to deploy a light aircraft carrier by 2033 to boost the country's defense capabilities, Yonhap quoted the arms procurement agency as saying on Monday. The defense project promotion committee held a ....

  • Tehran, Seoul agree to unfreeze Iranian assets

    Date: 2021-02-22 15:03:33 GMT - Iran - World - SN:54 - ID:8812403

    TEHRAN, Feb 22 (MENA) - Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmat and South Korean Ambassador to Tehran Tehran Ryu Jeong-hyun on Monday agreed to transfer part of Iran’s assets in Korean banks, IRNA reported. The agreement was ....

  • Death toll rises to four in Kabul roadside bomb blast

    Date: 2021-02-22 09:20:18 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:30 - ID:8811487

    KABUL, Feb 22 (MENA) - The death toll from Sunday’s roadside bomb blast in Kabul’s Baraki roundabout rose to four, a source said on Monday, adding that six people were wounded in the explosion. The blast took place on Sunday afternoon in which a ....

  • US willing to reengage in talks with Iran, says national security adviser

    Date: 2021-02-22 09:15:48 GMT - USA - World - SN:29 - ID:8811488

    WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (MENA) - White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US had begun to communicate with Iran over the country’s detention of American citizens, VOA reported. Sullivan added that President Joe Biden was determined ....

  • Human rights in the time of Covid: 'a pandemic of abuses’, says UN head

    Date: 2021-02-22 08:33:35 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:24 - ID:8811392

    LONDON, Feb 22 (MENA) - The world is facing a “pandemic of human rights abuses”, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said. Authoritarian regimes had imposed drastic curbs on rights and freedoms and had used the virus as a pretext to ....

  • China's mainland reports 11 new imported cases of coronavirus

    Date: 2021-02-22 08:30:41 GMT - China - World - SN:22 - ID:8811327

    BEIJING, Feb 22 (MENA) - The Chinese mainland reported no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the National Health Commission said Sunday. No new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases had been reported for six straight days since ....

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