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  • Italian FM: Appointment of new UN envoy to Libya is crucial step

    Date: 2022-07-27 12:07:53 GMT - Libya - World - SN:37 - ID:9690924

    TRIPOLI, July 27 (MENA) - Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio stressed that emphasis in the coming months should be put on the issue of appointing a new UN special envoy to Libya, who will be fully aware of the situation in the country, and able ....

  • Russia reduces gas flow to EU via vital pipeline

    Date: 2022-07-27 10:27:29 GMT - Russia - World - SN:28 - ID:9690587

    MOSCOW, July 27 (MENA) - Gas supply through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany has been reduced further to one-fifth of maximum capacity, Russia Today quoted German gas network operator Gascade as saying on Wednesday. According to ....

  • JHU: Coronavirus cases surpass 572 mn

    Date: 2022-07-27 08:02:08 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:9690331

    WASHINGTON, July 27 (MENA) - The overall global Covid-19 caseload reached 572,403,044 and deaths surged to more than six million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU) on Wednesday. In its latest update, JHU revealed that the current ....

  • German strike forces Lufthansa to cancel hundreds of flights

    Date: 2022-07-27 07:59:37 GMT - Germany - World - SN:11 - ID:9690373

    BERLIN, July 27 (MENA) - Lufthansa says it will have to cancel almost all flights at its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs on Wednesday because of a strike by its German ground staff, affecting tens of thousands of passengers in the latest travel ....

  • S. Korea's new Covid-19 cases top 100,000 in over 3 months

    Date: 2022-07-27 07:47:23 GMT - south korea - World - SN:10 - ID:9690353

    SEOUL, July 27 (MENA) - South Korea's new Covid-19 cases surpassed the 100,000 mark for the first time in more than three months on Wednesday as the new wave of an omicron subvariant is spreading fast, Yonhap News Agency said. The country added ....

  • India reports 18,313 new Covid cases

    Date: 2022-07-27 07:42:27 GMT - India - World - SN:9 - ID:9690306

    NEW DELHI, July 27 (MENA) - India on Wednesday reported 18,313 new Covid-19 cases and 57 deaths, The Times of India reported. Total infections reached 43,938,764 in the country, the health ministry announced. With the new rise, the total ....

  • New Zealand reports 9,124 new Covid cases

    Date: 2022-07-27 07:32:11 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:8 - ID:9690308

    WELLINGTON, July 27 (MENA) - New Zealand recorded 9,124 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 1,589,584, according to TVNZ. The death tally reached 1,427 in the country, the ....

  • 7.0-magnitude earthquake hits north Philippines

    Date: 2022-07-27 07:29:57 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:7 - ID:9690297

    MANILA, July 27 (MENA) - A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Abra province Wednesday morning and was felt in Metro Manila and nearby provinces, Philstar newspaper reported. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology earlier measured the ....

  • IMF downgrades global growth forecasts, raises inflation projections 2 last Washington

    Date: 2022-07-26 18:36:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:56 - ID:9689727

    For the Middle East, Central Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, the IMF noted that its outlook remain positive owing to the effects of elevated fossil fuel and metal prices for some commodity-exporting countries. However, the report revised down ....

  • IMF downgrades global growth forecasts, raises inflation projections

    Date: 2022-07-26 18:35:09 GMT - USA - World - SN:55 - ID:9689728

    WASHINGTON, July 26 (MENA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its global growth forecasts and raised its projections for inflation, warning that the risks to the economic outlook are “overwhelmingly tilted to the downside”. In ....

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