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Pentagon again delays nuclear missile test amid Chinese drills near Taiwan
Date: 2022-08-05 06:15:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:2 - ID:9705256
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (MENA) - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has again ordered the Pentagon to postpone a planned test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, this time amid increased tension with China over Taiwan, the White House ....
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Russian envoy says he is ready for dialogue with US on Iran nuclear deal
Date: 2022-08-04 23:06:22 GMT - Austria - World - SN:88 - ID:9705207
VIENNA, Aug 4 (MENA) - (MENA) - Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said on Thursday that he was ready to talk to all participants in the Vienna Talks, including the US, on the Joint ....
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Senate panel deadlocks on Biden's judicial pick with history of gun control work
Date: 2022-08-04 23:06:08 GMT - USA - World - SN:87 - ID:9705206
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden's nominee to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Rachel Bloomekatz, is deadlocked in a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee after Republicans were critical of her past work on gun ....
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Biden tests COVID-19 positive for 6th straight day
Date: 2022-08-04 21:01:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:85 - ID:9705121
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) – US President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again on Thursday but feels “very well,” his physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in a new update two weeks after the president first tested positive. Biden has tested ....
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Russia confirms commitment to space station
Date: 2022-08-04 21:00:56 GMT - Russia - World - SN:84 - ID:9705120
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (MENA) – A senior Russian official on Thursday said that his country's space program intends to cooperate with NASA and other partners on the International Space Station for as long as technically possible. Earlier, NASA has said it ....
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Russia is determined to strengthen strategic comprehensive dialogue with ASEAN — Lavrov
Date: 2022-08-04 21:00:41 GMT - Russia - World - SN:83 - ID:9705122
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (MENA) - Russia is committed to strengthening strategic comprehensive dialogue and expanding practical cooperation in all directions with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said ....
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US president denounces Russia’s nine-year sentence for Brittney Griner as ‘unacceptable’
Date: 2022-08-04 19:04:53 GMT - USA - World - SN:82 - ID:9704982
WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (MENA) - US President Biden on Thursday called on Russia to release WNBA star Brittney Griner immediately, condemning a newly announced nine-year prison sentence for Griner as “unacceptable,” The Hill reported. “Today, American ....
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Coronavirus cases worldwide exceed 580.7 mln
Date: 2022-08-04 12:16:39 GMT - USA - World - SN:38 - ID:9704368
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) - As many as 580,709,440 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) reported on Thursday. It added that about 6,410,053 have died from the virus ....
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Bank of England raises rates by most since 1995
Date: 2022-08-04 12:09:56 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:37 - ID:9704295
LONDON, Aug 4 (MENA) - The Bank of England (BOE) unleashed its biggest interest-rate hike in 27 years, according to Bloomberg. The half-point increase to 1.75% on Thursday was backed by eight of the bank’s nine policy makers, who also kept up a ....
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China launches terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite
Date: 2022-08-04 08:48:49 GMT - China - World - SN:20 - ID:9703776
BEIJING, Aug 4 (MENA) - China successfully launched a terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite and two other satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province Thursday, according to the Chinese news ....
