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UK minister says overseas travel “dangerous” and “not for this year”
Date: 2021-05-18 21:49:53 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:94 - ID:8963487
LONDON, May 18 (MENA) - Traveling is “dangerous” and “not for this year”, a health minister said on Tuesday amid deepening confusion over the British government’s the line on overseas travel. The comments by Tory frontbencher Lord Bethell follow ....
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Local lockdowns an ‘option’, as Indian variant could be ‘dominant UK strain in days’
Date: 2021-05-18 10:30:16 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:33 - ID:8962219
LONDON, May 18 (MENA) - A UK cabinet minister has admitted local lockdowns are an “option” amid reports the government is considering multiple contingency plans to tackle the spread of the new coronavirus variant first detected in India, the ....
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US to share at least 20m more Covid vaccines with other countries
Date: 2021-05-18 08:37:39 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:20 - ID:8961920
LONDON, May 18 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden said his administration will send at least 20m doses of US-authorized Covid vaccines to other countries in the coming weeks, vowing to provide an “arsenal of vaccines for the rest of the world,” The ....
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Taliban attacks Herat district, clashes underway: Governor
Date: 2021-05-18 08:18:48 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:17 - ID:8961902
KABUL, May 18 (MENA) - Taliban on Tuesday morning launched an attack on the Obe district in the western province of Herat, Tolo news agency reported quoting provincial governor Waheed Qatali. He said the attack started with the “destruction” of a ....
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JHU: Total coronavirus cases worldwide hit 163,642,990
Date: 2021-05-18 08:05:25 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:8961882
WASHINGTON, May 18 (MENA) - Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday said that the total coronavirus cases worldwide hit 163,642,990. It added in a report on its website that the total death cases at the world level hit 3,390,316. (MENA) A S E/D A E ....
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96% of Britons develop antibodies after one Covid jab, study finds
Date: 2021-05-18 08:03:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:15 - ID:8961851
LONDON, May 18 (MENA) - More than 90% of Britons develop antibodies to coronavirus after having one dose of the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines, and almost 100% do so after their second jab, The Guardian quoted a research study as showing. The ....
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Record 2,700 migrants arrive in Spain's Ceuta enclave from Morocco
Date: 2021-05-17 23:04:43 GMT - Spain - World - SN:112 - ID:8961600
MADRID, May 17 (MENA) - At least 2,700 migrants reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on Monday, a record in a single day, Spanish authorities said. Euronews quoted a Spanish government spokesman as saying that 1,000 of ....
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Russia decides not to block Twitter after company deleted over 91% of prohibited content
Date: 2021-05-17 21:37:12 GMT - Russia - World - SN:106 - ID:8961602
MOSCOW, May 17 (MENA) – The Russian authorities decided not to block Twitter after the social network had removed over 90% of the illegal content, TASS reported. The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and ....
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Long working hours increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke: WHO, ILO
Date: 2021-05-17 19:01:17 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:98 - ID:8961507
GENEVA, May 17 (MENA) - Long working hours led to 745,000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 per cent increase since 2000, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization and the International Labour ....
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French president says Sudanese rebellion marked by 'continuity, insistence'
Date: 2021-05-17 16:38:58 GMT - France - World - SN:80 - ID:8961214
PARIS, May 17 (MENA) - French President Emmanuel Macron said the Sudanese rebellion had achieved great success, as it stood for the struggle of the Sudanese people for freedom, justice and dignity and was marked by "continuity and ....
