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  • New Zealand to resume taking refugees a year after Covid border closure

    Date: 2021-02-05 14:30:09 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:53 - ID:8785064

    WELLINGTON, Feb 5 (MENA) - New Zealand will start receiving refugees again this month, nearly a year after it shut its borders to stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Guardian reported. A group of 35 refugees will arrive in February, ....

  • Kazakhstan reports 1,186 new daily cases of coronavirus

    Date: 2021-02-05 14:21:58 GMT - Kazakhstan - World - SN:52 - ID:8785196

    NURSULTAN, Feb 5 (MENA) - The Kazakh Health Ministry said Friday that 1,186 more people tested positive for coronavirus in Kazakhstan, Kazinform reported. It added a total of 192,825 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the country so ....

  • Japan reports 2,368 new coronavirus infections

    Date: 2021-02-05 14:16:43 GMT - Japan - World - SN:51 - ID:8785012

    TOKYO, Feb 5 (MENA) - The Japanese government has confirmed 2,368 new coronavirus cases on Friday, raising the nation's total number of infections to 402,369, NHK broadcast reported. The country's death toll increased by 84 to 6,273, it added. ....

  • Lavrov: Lack of normality key problem in Russian-EU ties

    Date: 2021-02-05 13:20:37 GMT - Russia - World - SN:44 - ID:8785010

    MOSCOW, Feb 5 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has branded the 'lack of normality' as the key problem in the relations between Russia and the European Union, according to TASS news agency on Friday. "Of course, the main issue that ....

  • India records 154 coronavirus cases

    Date: 2021-02-05 13:09:52 GMT - India - World - SN:41 - ID:8785116

    NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (MENA) - Delhi recorded as many as 154 fresh coronavirus cases on Friday, bringing the tally of COVID-19 cases in the national capital has reached over 635,793, while the death toll mounted to 10,873, India TV reported. Two ....

  • Kremlin dismisses Biden’s demand to release Navalny as aggressive rhetoric

    Date: 2021-02-05 13:08:08 GMT - Russia - World - SN:35 - ID:8784952

    MOSCOW, Feb 5 (MENA) - The demand of US President Joe Biden to release blogger Alexey Navalny comes down to "aggressive and unconstructive rhetoric," TASS news agency cited Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying. "This is a very aggressive and ....

  • 16 injured in blast in Pakistan's Balochistan

    Date: 2021-02-05 13:07:41 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:32 - ID:8784960

    ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 (MENA) - At least 16 people were injured in a blast in Balochistan's Sibi district on Friday, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper quoted officials as saying. Sibi Station House Officer Wazir Khan Marri said miscreants on a motorcycle ....

  • US reports nearly 120,000 new Covid-19 cases

    Date: 2021-02-05 13:07:29 GMT - USA - World - SN:31 - ID:8784900

    WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (MENA) - The US reported 119,931 new Covid-19 infections and 4,941 additional virus-related fatalities on Thursday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. That raises the national tally to at least 26,676,957 ....

  • Former US cyber chief calls for military to attack hackers -- 2 last London

    Date: 2021-02-05 12:10:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:34 - ID:8784994

    As head of the CISA, Krebs was in charge of monitoring online threats from foreign countries. He was fired by then president Donald Trump just before it emerged that suspected Russian hackers had infiltrated the systems of several companies and US ....

  • Former US cyber chief calls for military to attack hackers

    Date: 2021-02-05 12:07:41 GMT - USA - World - SN:37 - ID:8784902

    LONDON, Feb 5 (MENA) - The former US government cyber security chief has called for the military to target organized criminal gangs of hackers who launch ransomware attacks on companies and governments. In an interview with the FT, Chris Krebs, ....

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