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  • Romania reports over 3,000 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2021-02-10 20:21:04 GMT - Romania - World - SN:91 - ID:8793742

    BUCHAREST, Feb 10 (MENA) – Romania reported more than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, Romania Radio International reported on Wednesday. The total number of coronavirus cases confirmed by tests in Romania so far surpassed 752,000, ....

  • Germany extends COVID-19 lockdown until March 7

    Date: 2021-02-10 20:04:47 GMT - Germany - World - SN:90 - ID:8793778

    BERLIN, Feb 10 (MENA) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 governors decided Wednesday to largely extend the country’s coronavirus lockdown until March 7 amid concern that new virus variants could reverse a decline in new confirmed ....

  • 22 Taliban fighters killed in military operation in Afghanistan

    Date: 2021-02-10 19:54:32 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:87 - ID:8793744

    KABUL, Feb 10 (MENA) – Twenty-two Taliban fighters were killed in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Wednesday. In a special defense operation in Ghazni province, the Afghan commando forces ....

  • UK PM Johnson welcomes WHO support for AstraZeneca vaccine

    Date: 2021-02-10 19:21:02 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:83 - ID:8793751

    LONDON, Feb 10 (MENA) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed the news that the World Health Organization recommended on Wednesday the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for use globally by all adults after some countries have questioned ....

  • Twitter says Trump ban is permanent, even if running in 2024

    Date: 2021-02-10 19:06:09 GMT - USA - World - SN:79 - ID:8793629

    WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (MENA) - Former US President Trump’s Twitter ban is permanent, even if he runs for president again in 2024, The Hill cited a top company official as saying on Wednesday. During an interview on CNBC’s "Squawk Box," Twitter’s ....

  • Democrats: Trump ‘inciter in chief’ of Capitol attack

    Date: 2021-02-10 18:28:29 GMT - USA - World - SN:70 - ID:8793681

    WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (MENA) - Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial said Wednesday they would prove that Trump was no “innocent bystander” but the “inciter in chief” of the deadly attack at the Capitol aimed at overturning his election loss ....

  • WHO OKs AstraZeneca jabs for Covid variants, over-65s

    Date: 2021-02-10 18:25:14 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:69 - ID:8793590

    GENEVA, Feb 10 (MENA) – The AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine can be used for people aged over 65, and also where coronavirus variants of concern are circulating, France 24 reported on Wednesday. The World Health Organization's 15-member ....

  • Lavrov criticizes West's policy towards his country

    Date: 2021-02-10 12:10:36 GMT - Russia - World - SN:35 - ID:8792805

    MOSCOW, Feb 10 (MENA) - Some Western countries would like to turn Russia into a convenient platform for advancing their security, economic and political interests, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a ceremony of laying flowers at ....

  • Czech registers more than 10,000 new Covid-19 cases in past 24 hours

    Date: 2021-02-10 11:40:28 GMT - Czech - World - SN:31 - ID:8792709

    PRAGUE, Feb 10 (MENA) - The Czech Republic recorded 10,165 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, Radio Prague International reported Wednesday quoting the Health Ministry. This has been the first time, since January, that the daily ....

  • 18 new cases of COVID-19, 1 death reported in Afghanistan

    Date: 2021-02-10 11:37:05 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:28 - ID:8792710

    KABUL, Feb 10 (MENA) - The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 18 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,098 samples tested in the last 24 hours, TOLONews reported. The ministry also reported one death and 24 recoveries from ....

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