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Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa brothers claim landslide in parliamentary elections
Date: 2020-08-07 09:44:36 GMT - Sri Lanka - World - SN:18 - ID:8536907
COLOMBO, Aug 7 (MENA) - Sri Lanka's ruling party has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, the country's Election Commission declared Friday, consolidating the Rajapaksa family's control on power. Final results on Friday showed that ....
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Tokyo reports 462 coronavirus cases, bringing daily tally back above 400
Date: 2020-08-07 09:33:47 GMT - Japan - World - SN:17 - ID:8536903
TOKYO, Aug 7 (MENA) - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike reported 462 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the 11th consecutive day over 200 in the Japanese capital. Friday's jump over 400 was the first since Saturday, when the Tokyo Metropolitan Government ....
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Russia records 5,241 new coronavirus cases
Date: 2020-08-07 08:47:46 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:8536819
MOSCOW, August 7 (MENA) - The number of coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 5,241 to 877,135 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Friday. The number of COVID-19 fatalities over the past 24 hours increased by 119, ....
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Germany reports 1,147 new coronavirus cases
Date: 2020-08-07 08:35:09 GMT - Germany - World - SN:11 - ID:8536817
BERLIN, Aug 7 (MENA) - Germany reported 1,147 new coronavirus cases on Friday, according to the country's center for disease control, the Robert Koch Institute. The death toll rose by eight to 9,183, CNN reported, quoting the center as ....
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Police: Gunman in northern France has psychological problems
Date: 2020-08-06 22:51:48 GMT - France - World - SN:96 - ID:8536609
PARIS, Aug 6 (MENA) - An official in France’s national police said Thursday that the hostage-taker in a bank in the northern port city of Le Havre was known to have psychological problems. The official did not confirm French media reports that he ....
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Coronavirus cases in US surpass 4.8 mn
Date: 2020-08-06 22:41:22 GMT - USA - World - SN:95 - ID:8536603
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (MENA) - The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 4.8 million on Thursday, reaching 4,867,916, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, the ....
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Brian Hook resigns as US envoy on Iran
Date: 2020-08-06 19:41:08 GMT - USA - World - SN:83 - ID:8536530
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (MENA) - Brian Hook, the US special representative for Iran who led President Donald Trump's tough stance on Tehran, has resigned from his post, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday. Pompeo praised Hook’s work on ....
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Police operation underway after gunman holds customers hostage in French bank
Date: 2020-08-06 18:33:22 GMT - France - World - SN:78 - ID:8536432
PARIS, Aug 5 (MENA) - Several hostages were being held by an assailant in a bank in the northern French port town of Le Havre on Thursday and elite tactical police officers are being deployed, Al Arabiya reported. Police source said six hostages ....
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Scotland announces no Covid-19 deaths over the past three consecutive weeks
Date: 2020-08-06 13:23:21 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:42 - ID:8535834
LONDON, Aug 6 (MENA) - Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced Thursday that Scotland registered no coronavirus deaths over the past three consecutive weeks. In a televised statement aired by Sky News Sturgeon said, coronavirus-linked ....
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Lavrov emphasizes need to rule out possibility of nuclear war
Date: 2020-08-06 08:15:12 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:8535324
MOSCOW, Aug 6 (MENA) - There is a need to rule out the possibility of a nuclear war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a message to the participants of a memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the ....
