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Seven Azerbaijani drones downed in Armenia’s Vardenis
Date: 2020-10-08 20:29:26 GMT - Armenia - World - SN:63 - ID:8620728
YEREVAN, Oct 8 (MENA) - Seven Azerbaijani drones were downed in Armenia’s Vardenis region on Thursday, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense Shushan Stepanyan said. Clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh escalated in late ....
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Russian deputy FM: US withdrawal from OST damaged security in Europe
Date: 2020-10-08 19:07:20 GMT - Russia - World - SN:55 - ID:8620633
MOSCOW, Oct 8 (MENA) – Washington's decision to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty (OST) has caused serious damage to European security, Sputnik reported on Thursday. This was stated by Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ryabkov at the ....
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US sanctions 18 Iranian banks
Date: 2020-10-08 18:24:56 GMT - USA - World - SN:52 - ID:8620577
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (MENA) – The Trump administration announced sweeping new sanctions on Iran’s financial sector, a move intended to choke off the country’s economy from the rest of the world and raise pressure on its government to abandon nuclear ....
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Race to become WTO leader narrows to final two candidates
Date: 2020-10-08 16:12:34 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:40 - ID:8620417
GENEVA, Oct 8 (MENA) - The World Trade Organization said Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea's Yoo Myung-hee advanced to the final round in the race to be its director-general, setting the stage for the first woman to lead the 25-year-old ....
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EBRD elects France's Renaud-Basso as next president
Date: 2020-10-08 14:10:29 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:30 - ID:8620261
LONDON, Oct 8 (MENA) - The Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has elected Odile Renaud-Basso of France as the Bank's next President. Currently Director-General at the French Treasury, Ms Renaud-Basso ....
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Louise Glück wins 2020 Nobel prize in literature
Date: 2020-10-08 13:03:59 GMT - Sweden - World - SN:25 - ID:8620142
STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (MENA) - The poet Louise Glück has become the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature in 27 years, cited for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” The ....
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Brazil's coronavirus cases pass five million
Date: 2020-10-07 22:28:14 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:72 - ID:8619578
BRASILIA, Oct 7 (MENA) - Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil have passed five million, with deaths in the country approaching 150,000, RT reported Wednesday quoting health officials. Brazil's health ministry reported 31,553 new cases on ....
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UN high commissioner for refugees chief tests positive for COVID-19
Date: 2020-10-07 20:49:34 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:67 - ID:8619545
GENEVA, Oct 7 (MENA) - The UN refugee chief said Wednesday that he had tested positive for COVID-19 after leading the first day of the agency's main annual meeting in person. Filippo Grandi, who kicked off UNHCR's week-long Executive Committee ....
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Report: 3.7 million Afghan children don't attend school
Date: 2020-10-07 20:06:27 GMT - USA - World - SN:63 - ID:8619523
WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (MENA) - Nearly half of war-torn Afghanistan’s 18,000 schools lack proper buildings and an estimated 3.7 million school-aged children are still out of school — despite massive investment in the country’s education sector, the ....
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Coronavirus updates: US case count tops 7.5 million
Date: 2020-10-07 19:43:47 GMT - USA - World - SN:62 - ID:8619489
WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (MENA) - US coronavirus cases surpassed 7.5 million on Wednesday with most states seeing a rise in cases. A USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins data through late Tuesday shows Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, ....
