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Scotland announces no Covid-19 deaths over the past three consecutive weeks
Date: 2020-08-06 13:23:21 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:42 - ID:8535834
LONDON, Aug 6 (MENA) - Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced Thursday that Scotland registered no coronavirus deaths over the past three consecutive weeks. In a televised statement aired by Sky News Sturgeon said, coronavirus-linked ....
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Lavrov emphasizes need to rule out possibility of nuclear war
Date: 2020-08-06 08:15:12 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:8535324
MOSCOW, Aug 6 (MENA) - There is a need to rule out the possibility of a nuclear war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a message to the participants of a memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the ....
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One French death, 24 injured after Beirut blast
Date: 2020-08-06 07:21:14 GMT - France - World - SN:10 - ID:8535260
PARIS, Aug 6 (MENA) - One Frenchman, architect Jean-Marc Bonfils, has died while a further 24 French people were injured in Tuesday's massive warehouse explosion in Beirut, US News reported, quoting French government ministers. Culture Minister ....
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Russia calls for investigation into leaks of UN reports on North Korea
Date: 2020-08-05 07:09:22 GMT - Russia - World - SN:8 - ID:8533759
MOSCOW, Aug 5 (MENA) - Russia calls upon the UN Secretariat to investigate leaks of confidential expert reports about the compliance with UN Security Council sanctions on North Korea, TASS reported Wednesday. "We regret that the confidential ....
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Ukraine confirms 1,061 new COVID-19 cases, 26 deaths in 24 hours
Date: 2020-08-04 16:27:41 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:51 - ID:8533004
KIEV, Aug 4 (MENA) - Some 1,061 new cases were confirmed in Ukraine over the past 24 hours, according to data provided by the coronavirus epidemic monitoring system of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Twenty-six deaths and 737 ....
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Russia denounces Daesh attack on Afghan prison
Date: 2020-08-04 15:22:45 GMT - Russia - World - SN:47 - ID:8532988
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (MENA) - The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned in a statement Tuesday a Daesh militant attack on a prison in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, reported TASS. Moscow called on the US and NATO command in Afghanistan to take comprehensive ....
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Failed landing of UN plane in Mali wounds 11
Date: 2020-08-04 14:43:38 GMT - Mali - World - SN:44 - ID:8532987
BAMAKO, Aug 4 (MENA) - A United Nations (UN) plane careened off the runway while touching down in the northern Malian city of Gao on Monday, injuring 11 people, reported Maliactu newspaper quoting a UN statement Tuesday. The UN said that four ....
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ILO Child Labor Convention achieves universal ratification
Date: 2020-08-04 14:04:40 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:42 - ID:8532933
GENEVA, Aug 4 (MENA) - For the first time in the ILO’s history, an International Labor Convention has been ratified by all member State. Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labor achieved universal ratification, following ratification ....
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Russia gears up for mass vaccination against coronavirus
Date: 2020-08-04 09:37:40 GMT - Russia - World - SN:17 - ID:8532488
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (MENA) - Russia is preparing to start a mass vaccination campaign against the coronavirus in October, the country’s government has claimed. Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine candidate ....
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Pompeo, Taliban discuss Afghan peace process
Date: 2020-08-04 09:35:19 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:16 - ID:8532564
KABUL, Aug 4 (MENA) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a video meeting with Taliban's chief negotiator, Mullah Baradar Akhund, to discuss the state of the Afghanistan peace process, CGTN network reported on Tuesday. The discussions ....