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  • New virus cases over 100 for 5th day; enhanced virus curbs in the offing

    Date: 2020-11-12 08:00:58 GMT - south korea - World - SN:11 - ID:8668853

    SEOUL, Nov 12 (MENA) - South Korea's new coronavirus cases rose by triple digits for a fifth day Thursday, as sporadic cluster infections from private gatherings and facilities piled up across the nation, raising the possibility that the country may ....

  • Royal fans want UK Monarch to be 'front of queue' for vaccine as thanks for her 'years of service'

    Date: 2020-11-11 21:32:36 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:91 - ID:8668643

    LONDON, Nov 11 (MENA) - Brits have suggested the queen should be among the first to receive a coronavirus vaccine 'to show that the jab is safe', The Daily Mail reported. Earlier Wednesday it was revealed that the UK queen and the rest of the ....

  • Number of UK coronavirus deaths passes 50,000: Government figures show

    Date: 2020-11-11 20:49:18 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:88 - ID:8668634

    LONDON, Nov 11 (MENA) - The number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK has passed 50,000, which highlights the devastating impact of the virus on the country, reported Sky news Wednesday quoting government figures. A further 595 ....

  • More than 136,000 cases of Covid-19 were reported in the US on Tuesday -- another single-day record

    Date: 2020-11-11 09:38:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:24 - ID:8667378

    WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (MENA) - Another 136,325 Covid-19 cases and 1,420 virus-related deaths were reported in the United States on Tuesday, CNN quoted Johns Hopkins University as saying. That marked a new single-day record for the number of new ....

  • Borrell says EU supports resumption of Cyprus talks from where they stopped

    Date: 2020-11-11 08:47:33 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:13 - ID:8667335

    NICOSIA, Nov 11 (MENA) - The EU’s position is that talks for the settlement of the Cyprus problem must resume from where they left off in Crans-Montana in 2017, High Representative Josep Borrell told President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday ....

  • 18,487 new coronavirus infections in Germany

    Date: 2020-11-11 07:42:50 GMT - Germany - World - SN:9 - ID:8667161

    BERLIN, Nov 11 (MENA) - The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported 18,487 new corona infections within 24 hours. That is 3155 cases more than on Tuesday, Pledge Times quoted the information from the RKI as saying on Wednesday morning. It will ....

  • Turkey won’t join EU in next 30 years - Austrian FM

    Date: 2020-11-11 07:08:32 GMT - Austria - World - SN:7 - ID:8667105

    VIENNA, Nov 11 (MENA) - Both the European Union and Turkey know that accession talks “will lead to nothing,” Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg told German daily Die Welt, adding that he didn’t “see” Turkey joining the bloc in the next ....

  • UN grateful for Russian efforts to reach ceasefire deal in Nagorno-Karabakh – Spokesman

    Date: 2020-11-10 21:59:46 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:76 - ID:8666956

    NEW YORK, Nov 10 (MENA) – The United Nations is grateful to Russia for its efforts to reach an agreement on cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh and will do its utmost to support the implementation of the deal, Sputnik reported. A ....

  • Biden attacks Trump administration's efforts to strike down Obamacare

    Date: 2020-11-10 21:26:25 GMT - USA - World - SN:73 - ID:8666955

    WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (MENA) - US President-elect Joe Biden lambasted the Trump administration's argument in the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act should be struck down, calling it "simply cruel and needlessly divisive" and saying ....

  • Pentagon’s top policy adviser James Anderson resigns

    Date: 2020-11-10 19:23:43 GMT - USA - World - SN:65 - ID:8666926

    WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (MENA) - US defense officials said James Anderson, the top policy adviser at the Pentagon, submitted his resignation Tuesday, a day after US President Donald Trump fired US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Fox 5 news ....

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