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  • India reports 16,561 new Covid cases

    Date: 2022-08-12 06:37:33 GMT - India - World - SN:6 - ID:9716297

    NEW DELHI, Aug 12 (MENA) - India on Friday reported 16,561 new Covid-19 cases and 41 deaths, NDTV reported. Total infections reached 44,223,557 in the country, the health ministry announced. With the new rise, the total death toll due to ....

  • Moscow, Baku, Yerevan to hold high-level contacts before end of August — Russian MFA

    Date: 2022-08-11 22:52:06 GMT - Russia - World - SN:78 - ID:9716189

    MOSCOW, Aug 11 (MENA) - Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are expected to hold high-level trilateral contacts before the end of August, TASS cited Russian Foreign Ministry Deputy Spokesman Ivan Nechayev as saying at a briefing on Thursday. "There ....

  • Swiss mountain pass will lose all glacier ice ‘in a few weeks’ for first time in centuries

    Date: 2022-08-11 22:51:48 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:77 - ID:9716218

    LONDON, Aug 11 (MENA) – The thick layer of ice that has covered a Swiss mountain pass for centuries will have melted away completely within a few weeks, according to a local ski resort. After a dry winter, the summer heatwaves hitting Europe ....

  • UK energy firms ‘agree to do more’ to help vulnerable as bills surge

    Date: 2022-08-11 22:49:48 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:75 - ID:9716217

    LONDON, Aug 11 (MENA) – The UK’s biggest energy firms have agreed to “work closely” with the Government to offer more support for struggling households as bills soar this autumn, it was announced on Thursday. It comes after Prime Minister Boris ....

  • Decrease in gas supplies from Russia to EU results from sanctions - Moscow

    Date: 2022-08-11 22:49:10 GMT - Russia - World - SN:74 - ID:9716187

    MOSCOW, Aug 11 (MENA) – A decrease in supplies of Russian gas to the European Union (EU) has not been triggered by Russia’s actions, but by the aftermath of sanctions imposed against Moscow, according to a statement released by the Russian embassy ....

  • Roller coaster crash at German amusement park injures 34

    Date: 2022-08-11 20:32:37 GMT - Germany - World - SN:67 - ID:9716040

    BERLIN, Aug 11 (MENA) - Two roller coaster trains crashed into each other Thursday at an amusement park in southern Germany, injuring at least 34 people, two of them severely, The Washington Post reported. One roller coaster train braked heavily ....

  • Coronavirus cases worldwide exceed 587.5 mln

    Date: 2022-08-11 15:35:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:54 - ID:9715566

    WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (MENA) - As many as 587,596,081 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) reported on Thursday. It added that about 6,427,726 have died from the virus ....

  • Hospital waiting lists in England reach record high of 6.7 million

    Date: 2022-08-11 12:30:18 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:42 - ID:9715309

    LONDON, Aug 11 (MENA) - The number of people in England waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to a record high, according to The Guardian. A total of 6.7 million people were waiting to start treatment at the end of June, NHS ....

  • Japan registers 240,205 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2022-08-11 10:52:22 GMT - Japan - World - SN:33 - ID:9715059

    TOKYO, Aug 11 (MENA) - Japan registered 240,205 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total infections to 15,143,532, Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported Thursday. Also 206 new coronavirus-linked deaths were ....

  • Belarus denies Ziabrauka airfield explosions were missile attack from Ukraine

    Date: 2022-08-11 08:12:54 GMT - Belarus - World - SN:16 - ID:9714664

    MINSK, Aug 11 (MENA) - Belarus’ Ministry of Defense has claimed that the explosions reported in Ziabrauka, Homel, were actually due to a military vehicle catching fire and not a missile attack from Ukraine, as reported on Thursday, August 11, ....

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