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  • EBRD appoints Woort director for eastern Mediterranean region

    Date: 2020-04-27 16:18:26 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:44 - ID:8411866

    CAIRO, April 27 (MENA) – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has appointed Philip ter Woort as the Director for its eastern Mediterranean region, leading its future operations in Jordan, Lebanon and the West Bank and ....

  • Trump denies he is about to fire Health & Human Services Secretary

    Date: 2020-04-27 06:06:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:4 - ID:8410915

    WASHINGTON, April 27 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump denied he was going to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, CNN reported. In a tweet, Trump said that "Reports that H.H.S. Secretary @AlexAzar is going to be 'fired' by me" ....

  • Italy records its lowest daily Covid-19 death toll since March 14th

    Date: 2020-04-26 22:12:18 GMT - Italy - World - SN:62 - ID:8410875

    ROME, April 26 (MENA) - Italy reported its lowest daily coronavirus death toll in over a month on Sunday - 260 - as the government prepared to announce a gradual easing of the country's lockdown. The 260 daily fatalities reported by Italy's civil ....

  • Trump, Macron probe reopening world economies

    Date: 2020-04-26 22:11:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:61 - ID:8410872

    WASHINGTON, April 26 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump discussed on Sunday with French President Emmanuel Macron positive developments in combating the coronavirus pandemic and progress toward reopening world economies. According to the ....

  • Nearly 900 coronavirus cases confirmed in Russian army

    Date: 2020-04-26 20:54:37 GMT - Russia - World - SN:58 - ID:8410855

    MOSCOW, April 26 (MENA) - Nearly 900 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the Russian armed forces since March, TASS quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying Sunday. "Total testing in the Russian armed forces in a period from March to ....

  • 3 to 10 percent of UK population could have contracted COVID-19: Oxford professor

    Date: 2020-04-26 13:39:17 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:39 - ID:8410399

    LONDON, April 26 (MENA) - Professor Christophe Fraser from the University of Oxford in Britain said that between three and 10 per cent of the population could now have had coronavirus. "There's uncertainty around this but I would say nationally, ....

  • Germany warns against race to restart tourism

    Date: 2020-04-26 12:21:19 GMT - Germany - World - SN:33 - ID:8410228

    BERLIN, April 26 (MENA) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has warned against reopening European tourism destinations too quickly, saying that Europe should agree on a shared path back to freedom of travel. "A European race to see who will ....

  • Russia reports 6,361 new coronavirus infections

    Date: 2020-04-26 10:39:10 GMT - Russia - World - SN:25 - ID:8410109

    MOSCOW, April 26 (MENA) - Russia confirmed 6,361 new coronavirus infections Sunday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 80,949 cases, Sputnik news agency reported. In total, 747 people have been killed by the virus in ....

  • South Korea reports 10 new coronavirus infections

    Date: 2020-04-26 09:33:51 GMT - south korea - World - SN:20 - ID:8410037

    SEOUL, April 26 (MENA) - South Korea reported 10 new infections of coronavirus, bringing total confirmed cases, since the virus was spotted in January, to 10,728, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The total ....

  • Russia conducts over 2.8 mn coronavirus tests

    Date: 2020-04-26 08:40:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:8409934

    MOSCOW, April 26 (MENA) - More than 2.8 million tests for coronavirus infection (COVID-19) have already been conducted in Russia, RT channel reported quoted the Rospotrebnadzor as saying on Sunday. “In Russia, more than 2.8 million tests for ....

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