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Fight against Covid boosts public interest in science
Date: 2021-01-01 16:06:49 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:36 - ID:8735320
LONDON, Jan 1 (MENA) - The fight against coronavirus has arguably given science more prominence in the public imagination in 2020 than any year in living memory, with the possible exception of 1969 when man first landed on the moon. Although the ....
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France brings forward nightly COVID curfew from 20h to 18h
Date: 2021-01-01 15:42:04 GMT - France - World - SN:34 - ID:8735325
PARIS, Jan 1 (MENA) - France will bring forward its nightly COVID curfew from 20h to 18h, Euronews reported on Friday. The move, effective from Saturday, will apply to 15 regions of the country, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced on ....
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Man killed in explosion at warehouse in southern Pakistan
Date: 2021-01-01 15:37:16 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:33 - ID:8735316
ISLAMABAD, Jan 1 (MENA) - A man was killed in an explosion at a scrap warehouse in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday afternoon. The man was a laborer and was trying to dismantle a generator with a hammer when it exploded, according to Pakistan's Samaa ....
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Portugal's FM: Lisbon to use EU presidency to bolster bloc’s vaccination drive
Date: 2021-01-01 14:25:59 GMT - Portugal - World - SN:30 - ID:8735200
LISBON, Jan 1 (MENA) - Rolling out the EU’s mass vaccination program will be one of Portugal’s top priorities when it takes over the six-month rotating EU presidency on Friday as a new, more infectious strain of coronavirus spreads across ....
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India, Pakistan exchange list of nuclear installations
Date: 2021-01-01 13:25:08 GMT - India - World - SN:27 - ID:8735159
NEW DELHI, Jan 1 (MENA) - India and Pakistan on Friday exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral arrangement that prohibits the two countries from attacking each other's atomic facilities, NDTV channel reported. The two ....
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Trump extends immigration restrictions, citing pandemic's impact on labor market
Date: 2021-01-01 13:14:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:25 - ID:8735108
WASHINGTON, Jan 1 (MENA) – US President Donald Trump extended on Thursday certain restrictions on legal immigration and on visas that allow immigrants to temporarily work in the United States, just hours before those restrictions were set to lapse. ....
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Polish president hopes for return of 'normal life' in 2021 after COVID-19 vaccine roll-out
Date: 2021-01-01 12:37:26 GMT - Poland - World - SN:24 - ID:8735105
WARSAW, Jan 1 (MENA) - Poland’s president has said he hopes 2021 will be a year of "a gradual recovery of normal life" as the country rolls out a mass vaccination drive to combat the coronavirus. "We trust that the vaccine will allow us to come ....
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Norway lifts travel ban on UK flights from tomorrow
Date: 2021-01-01 11:58:04 GMT - Norway - World - SN:22 - ID:8735076
OSLO, Jan 1 (MENA) - Flights between the UK and Norway are set to resume tomorrow as a travel ban introduced to quell the spread of mutant Covid is gradually eased. The Scandinavian country has become one of the first in Europe to lift its ban ....
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4 new cases of mutant Covid strain detected in India
Date: 2021-01-01 11:01:22 GMT - India - World - SN:16 - ID:8735018
NEW DELHI, Jan 1 (MENA) - The Union Health Ministry has informed that four cases of the highly contagious mutant strain of the coronavirus were detected in India on Friday, NDTV reported. The total of those who are affected by the strain - first ....
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Tokyo confirms 783 new COVID-19 cases on Friday
Date: 2021-01-01 09:56:51 GMT - Japan - World - SN:14 - ID:8734948
TOKYO, Jan 1st (MENA) - The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it confirmed 783 new cases of coronavirus on Friday, NHK news reported. There have been 60,960 confirmed coronavirus cases so far in Tokyo. The capital's daily tally of new cases ....
