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Finland reinstates travel restrictions on Austria
Date: 2020-07-24 15:02:10 GMT - Austria - World - SN:44 - ID:8520758
VIENNA, July 24 (MENA) - The Finnish government has decided to again impose border checks for people arriving from Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland, Yle Uutiset news website reported on Friday. That means that as of next week, these people will ....
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US pledges $36.7m for COVID-19 response in Afghanistan
Date: 2020-07-24 14:58:00 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:43 - ID:8520670
KABUL, July 24 (MENA) - The United States has allocated more than $36.7 million to help the people of Afghanistan respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and expedited $90 million in continued development assistance through the World Bank to support ....
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Uganda reports first death from Covid-19
Date: 2020-07-24 14:37:46 GMT - Uganda - World - SN:41 - ID:8520590
KAMPALA, July 24 (MENA) - Uganda has registered its first Covid-19 death, according to the country's Ministry of Health, CNN reported. The Seychelles and Eritrea are now the only countries in Africa not to have reported a Covid-19 death, ....
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American wanted in investment fraud arrested in Bali
Date: 2020-07-24 14:36:10 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:40 - ID:8520739
JAKARTA, July 24 (MENA) - Authorities on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have arrested an American fugitive accused of investment fraud in the United States involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, police said Friday. Bali police chief ....
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'All these anti-vaxxers' are 'nuts', Boris Johnson says, as he warns of 'tough times ahead'
Date: 2020-07-24 14:26:36 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:39 - ID:8520646
LONDON, July 24 (MENA) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has described opponents of vaccines as "nuts", as he predicted Britain will be "well on the way past" coronavirus by the "middle of next year". "There's all these anti-vaxxers now. ....
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Coronavirus: WHO sees regulators cooperating to speed COVID-19 vaccine approval
Date: 2020-07-24 14:17:14 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:38 - ID:8520588
GENEVA, July 24 (MENA) - Regulators that normally work within their own countries or regions will likely harmonize efforts on potential COVID-19 vaccines to speed up their approvals once they become available, WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan ....
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Putin calls situation on Armenia-Azerbaijan border very sensitive for Russia
Date: 2020-07-24 14:14:00 GMT - Russia - World - SN:37 - ID:8520712
MOSCOW, July 24 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the situation unfolding on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan very sensitive for Russia. "For us it is very sensitive - the situation on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border," TASS ....
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Russia: Satellite tests does not pose threat to other space objects
Date: 2020-07-24 14:11:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:36 - ID:8520589
MOSCOW, July 24 (MENA) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday the tests conducted in space on July 15 did not pose a threat to other space objects and, most importantly, did not violate any norms and principles of international law, Sputnik ....
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Colombia documents over 220,000 COVID-19 cases
Date: 2020-07-24 13:26:50 GMT - Colombia - World - SN:35 - ID:8520644
BOGOTA, July 24 (MENA) - The Colombian Health Ministry has documented 7,945 cases of COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the past 24 hours, with the total number of people infected reaching 226,373, TASS news agency reported ....
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S. Korea allows marketing authorization of remdesivir
Date: 2020-07-24 13:03:57 GMT - south korea - World - SN:31 - ID:8520605
SEOUL, July 24 (MENA) - South Korea has granted marketing authorization to use remdesivir for coronavirus treatment, the country's drug safety agency said Friday. The drug that is sold as Veklury and made by US pharmaceutical giant Gilead ....
