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  • Greece sends 18 migrant kids with medical needs to Germany

    Date: 2020-07-24 15:37:28 GMT - Greece - World - SN:47 - ID:8520784

    ATHENS, July 24 (MENA) - Greece transferred 18 children with medical needs and their close relatives who were living in overcrowded migrant camps to Germany on Friday, ABC News reported. A flight that arrived at Kassel airport in central Germany ....

  • Chinese FM blames Washington for current difficulties in China-US relations

    Date: 2020-07-24 15:08:35 GMT - China - World - SN:45 - ID:8520731

    BEIJING, July 24 (MENA) - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that the current difficulties in the China-US relations are completely created by the US side, with the purpose of disrupting China's development. Wang ....

  • Finland reinstates travel restrictions on Austria

    Date: 2020-07-24 15:02:10 GMT - Austria - World - SN:44 - ID:8520758

    VIENNA, July 24 (MENA) - The Finnish government has decided to again impose border checks for people arriving from Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland, Yle Uutiset news website reported on Friday. That means that as of next week, these people will ....

  • US pledges $36.7m for COVID-19 response in Afghanistan

    Date: 2020-07-24 14:58:00 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:43 - ID:8520670

    KABUL, July 24 (MENA) - The United States has allocated more than $36.7 million to help the people of Afghanistan respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and expedited $90 million in continued development assistance through the World Bank to support ....

  • Uganda reports first death from Covid-19

    Date: 2020-07-24 14:37:46 GMT - Uganda - World - SN:41 - ID:8520590

    KAMPALA, July 24 (MENA) - Uganda has registered its first Covid-19 death, according to the country's Ministry of Health, CNN reported. The Seychelles and Eritrea are now the only countries in Africa not to have reported a Covid-19 death, ....

  • American wanted in investment fraud arrested in Bali

    Date: 2020-07-24 14:36:10 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:40 - ID:8520739

    JAKARTA, July 24 (MENA) - Authorities on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have arrested an American fugitive accused of investment fraud in the United States involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, police said Friday. Bali police chief ....

  • 'All these anti-vaxxers' are 'nuts', Boris Johnson says, as he warns of 'tough times ahead'

    Date: 2020-07-24 14:26:36 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:39 - ID:8520646

    LONDON, July 24 (MENA) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has described opponents of vaccines as "nuts", as he predicted Britain will be "well on the way past" coronavirus by the "middle of next year". "There's all these anti-vaxxers now. ....

  • Coronavirus: WHO sees regulators cooperating to speed COVID-19 vaccine approval

    Date: 2020-07-24 14:17:14 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:38 - ID:8520588

    GENEVA, July 24 (MENA) - Regulators that normally work within their own countries or regions will likely harmonize efforts on potential COVID-19 vaccines to speed up their approvals once they become available, WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan ....

  • Putin calls situation on Armenia-Azerbaijan border very sensitive for Russia

    Date: 2020-07-24 14:14:00 GMT - Russia - World - SN:37 - ID:8520712

    MOSCOW, July 24 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the situation unfolding on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan very sensitive for Russia. "For us it is very sensitive - the situation on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border," TASS ....

  • Russia: Satellite tests does not pose threat to other space objects

    Date: 2020-07-24 14:11:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:36 - ID:8520589

    MOSCOW, July 24 (MENA) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday the tests conducted in space on July 15 did not pose a threat to other space objects and, most importantly, did not violate any norms and principles of international law, Sputnik ....

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