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  • IMF, World Bank postpone late-2021 Morocco meeting to 2022

    Date: 2020-11-05 17:20:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:81 - ID:8659572

    WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (MENA) – The International Monetary Fund and World Bank postponed their annual meetings scheduled for next October in Morocco by a year until 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reported. The announcement came Thursday ....

  • Arizona secretary of state: "Of course, we’re going to count all the votes"

    Date: 2020-11-05 17:11:30 GMT - USA - World - SN:80 - ID:8659571

    WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (MENA) – Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs reiterated that officials will be counting all the votes in the presidential election that were cast in the state, CNN reported on Thursday. This came as a reaction to protests ....

  • Biden: "Every vote must be counted"

    Date: 2020-11-05 16:08:57 GMT - USA - World - SN:69 - ID:8659454

    WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (MENA) – As several battleground states in the US continue to count votes and the margins remain razor-thin, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tweeted Thursday: “Every vote must be counted." The tweet included a short ....

  • Russian president's envoy: Russian-African forum boosts cooperation

    Date: 2020-11-05 09:52:59 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:46 - ID:8658723

    CAIRO, Nov 5 (MENA) - Deputy Foreign Minister and Russian president's special envoy for the Middle East region Mikhail Bogdanov said Russian-African social forum aimed at boosting cooperation between Russia and African countries. Addressing the ....

  • Belgium records 7,405 Covid-19 cases

    Date: 2020-11-05 08:30:35 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:37 - ID:8658567

    BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (MENA) - The number of additional people who tested positive for the coronavirus in Belgium reached 7,405 over the past 24 hours, Belgian Channel RTPF reported according to Sciensano's latest figures out on Thursday. An average of ....

  • China suspends entry for residents of Britain

    Date: 2020-11-05 07:56:39 GMT - China - World - SN:35 - ID:8658552

    BEIJING, Nov 5 (MENA) - China is suspending entry for most foreign passport holders who reside in Britain, reacting to a new surge of coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom, the ABC News reported. The suspension covers those holding visas or ....

  • Michigan secretary of state calls Trump lawsuit on vote counting "frivolous"

    Date: 2020-11-05 07:44:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:34 - ID:8658551

    WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (MENA) - Michigan's secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, said the suit filed by President Donald Trump does not have merit and is confident in the process of counting all votes, CBS news reported. As CBS News projects that ....

  • US surpasses 100,000 single-day COVID-19 cases for 1st time since pandemic began

    Date: 2020-11-05 07:27:47 GMT - USA - World - SN:33 - ID:8658509

    WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (MENA) - The United States crossed a grim milestone Wednesday in its ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus with a record-setting more than 100,000 new COVID-19 infections reported in a single day. By early Wednesday ....

  • More than 90,000 ballots are still uncounted in Georgia, state official says

    Date: 2020-11-05 06:52:08 GMT - USA - World - SN:31 - ID:8658502

    WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (MENA) - There are approximately 90,735 ballots still outstanding in Georgia, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office told CNN. His office won't be providing additional updates today detailing how many remaining votes ....

  • Chinese mainland reports 28 new confirmed COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2020-11-05 06:41:21 GMT - China - World - SN:30 - ID:8658485

    BEIJING, Nov 5 (MENA) - China's National Health Commission said Thursday that it received reports of 28 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, including eight that were domestically-transmitted and 20 imported, Xinhua News ....

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