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  • India, Pakistan exchange list of nuclear installations

    Date: 2021-01-01 13:25:08 GMT - India - World - SN:27 - ID:8735159

    NEW DELHI, Jan 1 (MENA) - India and Pakistan on Friday exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral arrangement that prohibits the two countries from attacking each other's atomic facilities, NDTV channel reported. The two ....

  • Trump extends immigration restrictions, citing pandemic's impact on labor market

    Date: 2021-01-01 13:14:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:25 - ID:8735108

    WASHINGTON, Jan 1 (MENA) – US President Donald Trump extended on Thursday certain restrictions on legal immigration and on visas that allow immigrants to temporarily work in the United States, just hours before those restrictions were set to lapse. ....

  • Polish president hopes for return of 'normal life' in 2021 after COVID-19 vaccine roll-out

    Date: 2021-01-01 12:37:26 GMT - Poland - World - SN:24 - ID:8735105

    WARSAW, Jan 1 (MENA) - Poland’s president has said he hopes 2021 will be a year of "a gradual recovery of normal life" as the country rolls out a mass vaccination drive to combat the coronavirus. "We trust that the vaccine will allow us to come ....

  • Norway lifts travel ban on UK flights from tomorrow

    Date: 2021-01-01 11:58:04 GMT - Norway - World - SN:22 - ID:8735076

    OSLO, Jan 1 (MENA) - Flights between the UK and Norway are set to resume tomorrow as a travel ban introduced to quell the spread of mutant Covid is gradually eased. The Scandinavian country has become one of the first in Europe to lift its ban ....

  • 4 new cases of mutant Covid strain detected in India

    Date: 2021-01-01 11:01:22 GMT - India - World - SN:16 - ID:8735018

    NEW DELHI, Jan 1 (MENA) - The Union Health Ministry has informed that four cases of the highly contagious mutant strain of the coronavirus were detected in India on Friday, NDTV reported. The total of those who are affected by the strain - first ....

  • Tokyo confirms 783 new COVID-19 cases on Friday

    Date: 2021-01-01 09:56:51 GMT - Japan - World - SN:14 - ID:8734948

    TOKYO, Jan 1st (MENA) - The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it confirmed 783 new cases of coronavirus on Friday, NHK news reported. There have been 60,960 confirmed coronavirus cases so far in Tokyo. The capital's daily tally of new cases ....

  • Russia registers 27,039 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours

    Date: 2021-01-01 09:49:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:8734924

    MOSCOW, Jan 1st (MENA) - Russia has registered 27,039 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 3,186,336, Sputnik news agency reported Friday. Over the past 24 hours, 27,039 coronavirus cases were confirmed in 85 regions, ....

  • WHO: 81,475,053 coronavirus infections registered worldwide in 2020

    Date: 2021-01-01 09:35:58 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:12 - ID:8734889

    GENEVA, Jan 1 (MENA) - The total number of coronavirus cases across the world registered 81,475,053 in 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The number has increased by more than 692,000 over the past day, RT channel reported Friday, ....

  • Finland extends suspension of flights from UK until January 11

    Date: 2021-01-01 09:12:13 GMT - Finland - World - SN:11 - ID:8734890

    HELSINKI, Jan 1 (MENA) - Finnish authorities have decided to extend the suspension of flights from the United Kingdom until January 11 over fears of a new coronavirus mutation discovered in the UK, the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency ....

  • Coronavirus: 753 new cases reported in Kazakhstan over past day

    Date: 2021-01-01 08:27:16 GMT - Kazakhstan - World - SN:10 - ID:8734834

    NUR-SULTAN, Jan 1st (MENA) - Kazakhstan has added 753 new COVID-19 cases over the past day, bringing its total caseload to 155,473, Kazinform reported on Friday. The death toll in the country reached 2,293 since the beginning of the pandemic, ....

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