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UK considers sending modern heavy tanks to Ukraine
Date: 2023-01-11 20:35:59 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:83 - ID:9964206
LONDON, Jan 11 (MENA) - Britain is planning to provide tanks to Ukraine, Downing Street confirmed for the first time on Wednesday. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak instructed Ben Wallace, his Defence Secretary, to “work with partners” to go “further ....
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Poland plans to give Ukraine Leopard tanks as part of coalition
Date: 2023-01-11 17:53:45 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:74 - ID:9964077
KIEV, Jan 11 (MENA) - Poland has decided to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine as part of an international coalition, the Polish president said on Wednesday, according to the Ukrainian news agency. But Andrzej Duda, on a visit to Lviv, said that the ....
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Flights gradually resuming in US after nationwide stoppage
Date: 2023-01-11 17:20:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:73 - ID:9964040
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (MENA) - US air authorities ordered an hours-long grounding of flight departures nationwide Wednesday following an outage affecting a key system used by pilots before takeoff. Near 1400 GMT, the Federal Aviation Administration ....
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Estonia obliges Russia to cut number of diplomats in country by February 1 — statement
Date: 2023-01-11 15:20:43 GMT - Russia - World - SN:64 - ID:9963793
MOSCOW/TALLINN, Jan 11 (MENA) - Estonia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it had notified the Russian envoy of the need to reduce the number of Russian diplomats working in the country by February 1, according to Tass news agency. "Today, ....
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Italy ready to send more weapons to Ukraine
Date: 2023-01-11 15:20:12 GMT - Italy - World - SN:63 - ID:9963575
ROME, Jan 11 (MENA) – Italy is ready to send a new batch of military aid to Kyiv to help Ukraine combat the Russian forces of invasion, Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday. "We are doing everything we can for ....
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China: Qin's Africa tour right after his inauguration aims to deepen traditional friendship
Date: 2023-01-11 15:19:43 GMT - China - World - SN:62 - ID:9963721
BEIJING, Jan 11 (MENA) - The seven-day Africa tour of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang right after his inauguration shows that China highly values the traditional friendship with African countries and it aims to tighten those ties, a Chinese ....
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Biden ‘surprised’ to learn classified documents were found in private office
Date: 2023-01-11 15:18:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:59 - ID:9963574
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (MENA) – US President Joe Biden said he was “surprised” to learn in November that his lawyers found classified government documents in his former office at a think tank in Washington, and he said he does not know what information ....
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Cyprus requires negative Covid tests for China arrivals
Date: 2023-01-11 14:31:09 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:55 - ID:9963573
NICOSIA, Jan 11 (MENA) – Negative Covid-19 tests will be required for people traveling by air from China to Cyprus from January 15, Cypriot health ministry said on Wednesday. The EU’s Integrated Political Crisis Response group (IPCR) last week ....
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All Domestic U.S. Flights Grounded by System Outage
Date: 2023-01-11 13:47:21 GMT - USA - World - SN:42 - ID:9963679
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (MENA) - US airlines were forced to halt domestic departures until 9 a.m. ET after the Federal Aviation Administration said it had suffered an outage of a system that alerts pilots and crew to advisories and information for ....
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John Hopkins: Coronavirus cases worldwide surpass 665 mln
Date: 2023-01-11 11:12:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:30 - ID:9963254
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (MENA) – As many as 665,320,064 people have been reported to be infected with coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said on Wednesday. It added that about 6,712,761 have died from the virus worldwide. The US ....