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  • Chinese Foreign Ministry announces countermeasures in response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan

    Date: 2022-08-05 15:55:29 GMT - China - World - SN:47 - ID:9706052

    BEIJING, Aug 5 (MENA) - Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday announced adopting number of countermeasures in response to Speaker of US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, Xinhau reported Friday. The measures include: Canceling ....

  • WHO Africa sees 10-year growth in healthy life expectancy

    Date: 2022-08-05 15:28:39 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:45 - ID:9705655

    GENEVA, Aug 5 (MENA) - Africa recorded a ten-year growth in its healthy life expectancy from 2000 to 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa office said exceeding the global average and progress seen in any other region ....

  • 4 Ukrainian command posts hit over 24 hours - Russian military

    Date: 2022-08-05 15:23:43 GMT - Russia - World - SN:44 - ID:9705972

    MOSCOW, Aug 5 (MENA) - The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday its military hit four Ukranian command posts, as well as 182 areas of AFU personnel and military equipment concentration over the past 24 hours. "High-precision air-based missiles of ....

  • Lavrov says he sent letter to UN chief about US neglect of its duties

    Date: 2022-08-05 14:52:09 GMT - Russia - World - SN:39 - ID:9705708

    MOSCOW, Aug 5 (MEMA) - Russia has recently sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres about the neglect by the United States of its responsibilities as host country of the organization's headquarters, TASS cited Russian Foreign Minister ....

  • Putin bans transactions with foreigners’ stakes in strategic companies by year-end

    Date: 2022-08-05 14:38:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:37 - ID:9705876

    MOSCOW, Aug 5 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on application of special measures in finance and fuel and energy spheres in view of unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organizations, TASS News ....

  • Russian minister sees risk of reducing country’s grain harvest this year

    Date: 2022-08-05 13:59:12 GMT - Russia - World - SN:36 - ID:9705799

    MOSCOW, Aug 5 (MENA) - Russian Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev warned on Friday that the ministry saw risks of the country’s grain harvest target not being reached this year, RT reported. The amount of grain harvested across Russia so far ....

  • Flash floods kill more than 500 people in Pakistan during heaviest rains in decades

    Date: 2022-08-05 13:58:00 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:35 - ID:9705738

    ISLAMABAD, Aug 5 (MENA) - Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the worst hit, Channel ....

  • Kishida, Pelosi agree to work for peace, stability in Taiwan Strait

    Date: 2022-08-05 13:45:09 GMT - Japan - World - SN:33 - ID:9705771

    TOKYO, Aug 5 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed Friday to jointly work to ensure peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, after her visit to the self-ruled island prompted an ....

  • Russia-China trade volume may reach $185-190 bln in 2022 - trade representative

    Date: 2022-08-05 13:36:53 GMT - Russia - World - SN:31 - ID:9705763

    BEIJING, Aug 5 (MENA) - The volume of bilateral trade between Russia and China may reach $185-190 bln at the end of 2022, TASS reported Friday quoting Russia’s trade representative in China Alexey Dakhnovsky. "As for forecasts, this is a ....

  • Kremlin: Dialogue with US on prisoner swap can be held via channel discussed in Geneva

    Date: 2022-08-05 12:01:55 GMT - Russia - World - SN:27 - ID:9705690

    MOSCOW, Aug 5 (MENA) - The channel that Russia and the US can use to discuss, among other things, the issue of exchanging prisoners, was agreed on by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden during the Geneva talks, Kremlin ....

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