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  • UN chief welcomes Japan's net zero emissions pledge

    Date: 2020-10-27 09:09:11 GMT - Japan - World - SN:22 - ID:8645928

    TOKYO, Oct 27 (MENA) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday spoke by phone with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and welcomed the Japanese leader's pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in his country to net zero by 2050, Kyodo News ....

  • Four members of Afghan negotiating team return home

    Date: 2020-10-27 09:02:00 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:21 - ID:8645950

    KABUL, Oct 27 (MENA) - Four members of the negotiating team of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Saadat Mansoor Naderi, Fawzia Koofi, Matin Beg and Kalimullah Naqibi, have returned home for personal matters, according to sources, freezing the ....

  • Russia reinstates mask mandate, bans late restaurants and bars to stop virus spread

    Date: 2020-10-27 08:39:47 GMT - Russia - World - SN:20 - ID:8645925

    MOSCOW, Oct 27 (MENA) - Russia has reinstated a nationwide mask mandate starting Wednesday amid a record-setting second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, The Moscow Times reported Tuesday quoting consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor. Russians ....

  • US Senate confirms Trump's Supreme Court nominee a week ahead of Election Day

    Date: 2020-10-27 08:04:32 GMT - USA - World - SN:17 - ID:8645844

    WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (MENA) - US Senate Republicans voted to confirm President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Monday, a major victory for the President and his party just days before November 3, that could push the ....

  • US reports more than 66,700 Covid-19 cases

    Date: 2020-10-27 07:50:56 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:8645828

    WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (MENA) - The United States reported 66,784 new Covid-19 cases and 477 deaths on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University. There are now at least 8,702,750 reported Covid-19 infections and at least 225,706 people have died ....

  • Pakistani PM denounces Peshawar bomb attack

    Date: 2020-10-27 07:37:09 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:14 - ID:8645840

    ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 (MENA) - Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday denounced a bomb attack that targeted a religious school in Peshawar and left seven people dead and more than 100 wounded. In a tweet, he expressed condolences to the families of the ....

  • Terrorist operation kills, injures 77 in Pakistan

    Date: 2020-10-27 07:30:43 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:13 - ID:8645825

    ISAMABAD, Oct 27 (MENA) - At least seven people were killed and 70 others wounded, most of them students, in a bombing that targeted a religious school in the western Pakistani area of Peshawar. The Pakistani Dawn newspaper quoted a senior police ....

  • Pompeo: Daesh still poses threat to region

    Date: 2020-10-27 07:26:23 GMT - USA - World - SN:12 - ID:8645824

    WSHINGTON, Oct 27 (MENA) - US State Secretary Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said that Daesh terrorist group still poses a threat to the region. In a tweet, he added that the international coalition will continue its efforts until defeating Daesh. He ....

  • China retaliates against news media in latest feud with US

    Date: 2020-10-27 07:21:36 GMT - China - World - SN:11 - ID:8645780

    BEIJING, Oct 27 (MENA) - China has ordered six US-based news media to file detailed information about their operations in China the latest volley in a months long battle with the Donald Trump administration, CTV news reported on its website. A ....

  • Russia's Su-27 intercepts German patrol aircraft, US spy plane over Baltic Sea

    Date: 2020-10-26 16:09:23 GMT - Russia - World - SN:63 - ID:8645329

    MOSCOW, Oct 26 (MENA) - The Russian Defense Ministry stated that Russian fighters had intercepted two strategic bombers of the US Air Force over the Bering Sea, Sputnik reported. The Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement on Monday saying ....

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