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Dutch researchers report first death from COVID-19 reinfection
Date: 2020-10-13 07:58:52 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:14 - ID:8625697
LONDON, Oct 13 (MENA) - An elderly woman in the Netherlands has died after getting COVID-19 a second time, BNO News reported Tuesday. It’s the first time a death has been reported from reinfection with coronavirus. The patient was an ....
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Nagorno-Karabakh says 17 more servicemen killed in fighting with Azerbaijan
Date: 2020-10-13 07:37:25 GMT - Armenia - World - SN:13 - ID:8625648
YEREVAN, Oct 13 (MENA) - Officials in Nagorno-Karabakh said 17 more servicemen had been killed in fighting with Azerbaijan, bringing its total military death toll to 542 since fighting broke out on September 27, Interfax news agency reported on ....
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WHO: Number of new coronavirus cases was the highest
Date: 2020-10-12 21:59:14 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:81 - ID:8625465
GENEVA, Oct 17 (MENA) - WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom said on Monday the number of new coronavirus cases over the past few days was the highest. "Around the world, we’re now seeing an increase in the number of reported cases of COVID-19, ....
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Knifeman, 30, admits attack on prayer leader at Regent's Park mosque
Date: 2020-10-12 20:40:52 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:77 - ID:8625432
LONDON, Oct 12 (MENA) - A man who stabbed a prayer leader with a kitchen knife at one of Britain’s biggest mosques is today facing jail after admitting the attack, Evening Standard reported. Daniel Horton, 30, struck Raafat Maglad in the neck ....
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Russia, US discuss New START, but talking about agreements is too early
Date: 2020-10-12 18:40:12 GMT - Russia - World - SN:73 - ID:8625323
MOSCOW, Oct 12 (MENA) – Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed that the issue of extending the New START was a "priority in contacts with the Americans," TASS reported. It is too early to say anything definite about the chances ....
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Visitors to Japan plunge by 77% in 2020
Date: 2020-10-12 12:42:21 GMT - Japan - World - SN:47 - ID:8624824
TOKYO, Oct 12 (MENA) - The number of foreign travelers coming to Japan during the first half of 2020 plunged 77 percent from a year earlier due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was the first decline in nine years, according to NHK radio. The ....
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Macron to speak on television about health situation in France Wednesday
Date: 2020-10-12 12:37:10 GMT - France - World - SN:46 - ID:8624843
PARIS, Oct 12 (MENA) - French President Emmanuel Macron will speak Wednesday evening on television at 7:55 p.m. on the health situation at home, according to BFMTV. He will be interviewed by Gilles Bouleau (TF1) and Anne-Sophie Lapix (France ....
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Belgium: Second worst country in Europe for coronavirus infections
Date: 2020-10-12 12:11:52 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:41 - ID:8624742
BRUSSELS, Oct 12 (MENA) - Belgium is now the second-worst country in Europe in terms of coronavirus infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last fortnight, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The latest ....
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Goldman Sachs expects dollar to fall if Biden wins presidency
Date: 2020-10-12 12:09:30 GMT - USA - World - SN:40 - ID:8624716
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (MENA) - The dollar may tumble to its lows of 2018 on the rising likelihood of Joe Biden winning the U.S. election and progress on a coronavirus vaccine, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, quoted by Bloomberg, said on Monday. “The risks ....
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Greece calls new Turkish survey mission threat to region
Date: 2020-10-12 10:29:48 GMT - Greece - World - SN:32 - ID:8624608
ATHENS, Oct 12 (MENA) - Greece accused neighbor Turkey of undermining efforts to ease a crisis over drilling rights in the eastern Mediterranean on Monday, after Turkey announced its survey vessel would be dispatched for a new research mission in ....