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Pakistani FM highlights in letter to UN India’s violations in Kashmir
Date: 2021-02-05 19:32:37 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:81 - ID:8785565
ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 (MENA) – Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has written a letter to the president of the UN Security Council and the UN secretary general to apprise them of the continuing grave situation in Kashmir and India's hostile ....
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Italy records 14,218 new coronavirus cases, 377 deaths
Date: 2021-02-05 18:27:10 GMT - Italy - World - SN:78 - ID:8785573
ROME, Feb 5 (MENA) - The Italian Health Ministry said Friday that 14,218 coronavirus cases have been registered in the past 24 hours. The ministry added that 377 people have died, ANSA reported. Italy's coronavirus death toll now stands at ....
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Swiss coronavirus cases more than 531,000
Date: 2021-02-05 18:24:11 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:77 - ID:8785536
ZURICH, Feb 5 (MENA) – Swiss health authorities reported 1,584 more coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of people who tested positive in Switzerland to more than 531,873 on Friday. Thirty-two people died from the virus, the Federal ....
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COVID-19 'receding' - Russian health minister
Date: 2021-02-05 18:08:58 GMT - Russia - World - SN:76 - ID:8785532
MOSCOW, Feb 5 (MENA) - Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko has stressed that the coronavirus infection in the country has begun to subside, TASS reported. "We see that the coronavirus infection is truly receding," he said. According to ....
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Canada says few weeks before Pfizer vaccine deliveries
Date: 2021-02-05 18:02:40 GMT - Canada - World - SN:74 - ID:8785535
OTTAWA, Feb 5 (MENA) – The Canadian federal government said it will still be a few weeks before Canada’s Pfizer deliveries fully ramp up to pre-interruption levels, while Moderna’s next shipment has yet to be confirmed, CTV News ....
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EU remains unreliable partner for Russia for now — Lavrov
Date: 2021-02-05 16:34:30 GMT - Russia - World - SN:69 - ID:8785315
MOSCOW, Feb 5 (MENA) - The European Union at this stage cannot be considered a reliable partner for Russia, but Moscow hopes that Brussels will pay attention to its vital interests in the end, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a press ....
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Russia expels diplomats from Germany, Poland, Sweden
Date: 2021-02-05 16:05:44 GMT - Russia - World - SN:66 - ID:8785423
MOSCOW, Feb 5 (MENA) - Russia said it has expelled diplomats from Germany, Poland and Sweden amid claims they took part in pro-Alexei Navalny protests, Euronews reported Friday. It comes on the day the EU's foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell is ....
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S. Korea, US tackle ways of N.K. denuclearization
Date: 2021-02-05 15:54:33 GMT - south korea - World - SN:64 - ID:8785350
SEOUL, Feb 5 (MENA) - A former US nuclear negotiator on Friday called on Washington and Seoul to review various approaches to denuclearization and stressed their need to maintain close bilateral ties, Yonhap news agency quoted the unification ....
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Germany hails Biden’s move to halt Trump-ordered troop cuts
Date: 2021-02-05 15:27:09 GMT - Germany - World - SN:61 - ID:8785294
BERLIN, Feb 5 (MENA) - The German government on Friday welcomed President Joe Biden’s decision to formally halt the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany, arguing that the troops’ stationing there is "in our mutual interest", The Washington ....
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5 killed, injured in explosion in western Pakistan
Date: 2021-02-05 15:26:46 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:60 - ID:8785251
ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 (MENA) - At least two people were killed and three others injured in an explosion outside deputy commissioner’s office on Anscomb Road in Quetta, the policemen and rescue workers at the scene said Friday. One injured was said to ....