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  • Greece to buy 18 Rafale fighters, 4 frigates from France

    Date: 2020-09-12 19:45:28 GMT - Greece - World - SN:49 - ID:8585075

    ATHENS, Sept 12 (MENA) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Saturday that Greece will buy 18 new Rafale aircraft and four frigates to address the defence needs of the country, according to the Greek Reporter. The Greek premier ....

  • Man arrested by UK police after bomb posted to London home

    Date: 2020-09-12 18:47:57 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:46 - ID:8585015

    LONDON, Sept 12 (MENA) - A man has been arrested after a bomb was posted to a home in north London, The Independent reported on Saturday. Counter-terrorism police detained the man, in his 20s, in Cambridge on Saturday morning. He was arrested ....

  • Over 150 arrested during 1st yellow vest protest since France lockdown lifted

    Date: 2020-09-12 15:09:52 GMT - France - World - SN:35 - ID:8584670

    PARIS, Sept 12 (MENA) – Police in Paris have arrested more than 150 people during the first yellow vest protest since the start of France's coronavirus outbreak, Sky News reported on Saturday. The "Gilets Jaunes" are taking part in their first ....

  • Bulgaria reports 201 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2020-09-12 08:56:55 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:13 - ID:8584210

    SOFIA, Sept 12 (MENA) - The new cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours reached 201, according to the data of the Ministry of Health. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of infected has reached 17,799, Sofia News Agency ....

  • New virus cases under 200 for 10th day in South Korea

    Date: 2020-09-12 08:39:22 GMT - south korea - World - SN:11 - ID:8584172

    SEOUL, Sept 12 (MENA) - South Korea's new virus cases stayed below 200 for the 10th day in a row on Saturday, Yonhap news agency reported. The country added 136 more COVID-19 cases, including 118 local infections, bringing the total caseload up ....

  • India: new 97,570 Covid-19 cases recorded

    Date: 2020-09-12 08:03:11 GMT - India - World - SN:9 - ID:8584133

    NEW DELHI, Sept 12 (MENA) - India’s tally of the coronavirus surged to 4,659,984 after another record daily jump of 97,570 fresh infections and 1,201 deaths across the country, the Union health ministry data showed on Saturday. The number of ....

  • Kazakhstan reports over 60 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2020-09-12 07:25:08 GMT - Kazakhstan - World - SN:7 - ID:8584091

    NUR-SULTAN, Sept 12 (MENA) - Over the past 24 hours, Kazakhstan has added 68 new cases of the coronavirus infection to the overall caseload, according to the health ministry. The new infections bring the total number of cases in the country to ....

  • Brazil records 43,718 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2020-09-12 06:38:28 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:6 - ID:8584067

    BRASILIA, Sept 12 (MENA) - Brazil's Ministry of Health announced 43,718 new cases of the coronavirus since the country's last update. The new figure means Brazil has recorded 4,282,164 infections since the start of the outbreak earlier this ....

  • Russian fighter scrambled to escort Norwegian patrol aircraft over Barents Sea

    Date: 2020-09-11 19:23:25 GMT - Russia - World - SN:68 - ID:8583930

    MOSCOW, Sept 11 (MENA) – A Russian MiG-29 fighter jet of the Northern Fleet was scrambled to escort a Norwegian Orion patrol aircraft approaching the Russian border over the Barents Sea, Tass quoted Russia’s National Defense Control Center as saying ....

  • Greek PM wants joint EU management of new Lesbos camp

    Date: 2020-09-11 17:49:45 GMT - Greece - World - SN:62 - ID:8583793

    ATHENS, Sep 11 (MENA) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday demanded more "active" participation from the EU in housing thousands of migrants on the island of Lesbos, as he said Athens will rebuild a notoriously overcrowded camp ....

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