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  • Polio warning: Virus could 'mutate and become infectious' as thousands not vaccinated

    Date: 2022-06-23 21:39:00 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:94 - ID:9638545

    LONDON, June 23 (MENA) - People are being urged to ensure their polio vaccines are up to date after an outbreak of the virus was detected in UK sewage samples. Polio, which was officially eradicated in the UK in 2003, can cause paralysis in rare ....

  • British Airways workers at Heathrow vote to strike during school summer holidays

    Date: 2022-06-23 20:31:18 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:91 - ID:9638500

    LONDON, June 23 (MENA) – British Airways (BA) workers at Heathrow have voted to strike during the school summer holidays, in a move set to cause more travel chaos as the industry struggles to recover from the COVID pandemic, Sky News ....

  • Egypt looking forward to continuing fruitful cooperation with UNODC

    Date: 2022-06-23 15:14:31 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:52 - ID:9637970

    CAIRO, June 23 (MENA) – Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that Egypt is looking forward to continuing fruitful cooperation between Egypt and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the fields of combating transnational organized ....

  • Singapore's core inflation rises to 3.6% in May, highest in more than 13 years

    Date: 2022-06-23 08:42:17 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:24 - ID:9637070

    SINGAPORE, June 23 (MENA) - Singapore’s core inflation in May hit its highest level in more than 13 years, led by rising prices of food and utilities, CNA reported. Core inflation, which excludes accommodation and private transport costs, came in ....

  • EU-Latin America and Caribbean Partnership for manufacturing vaccines, medicines

    Date: 2022-06-23 08:17:58 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:21 - ID:9636974

    BRUSSELS, June 23 (MENA) – At the European Development Days, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (EC), and Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain, launched a new European Union–Latin America and Caribbean partnership on local ....

  • Poland welcomes 4.2 million refugees from Ukraine: officials

    Date: 2022-06-23 08:00:43 GMT - Poland - World - SN:19 - ID:9636969

    WARSAW, June 23 (MENA) – Poland has taken in nearly 4.27 million refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Polish Border Guard agency reported on Thursday. "Since February 24, a total of 4,265,000 people have crossed into Poland from ....

  • S. Korea successfully deploys precision navigation satellite

    Date: 2022-06-23 07:58:46 GMT - south korea - World - SN:18 - ID:9636947

    SEOUL, June 23 (MENA) - South Korea successfully launched a precision aviation satellite Thursday to improve the accuracy and reliability of global positioning system (GPS) signals and better ensure flight safety, the government said. The ....

  • JHU: Global coronavirus cases surpass 541mn

    Date: 2022-06-23 07:55:05 GMT - USA - World - SN:17 - ID:9636991

    WASHINGTON, June 23 (MENA) - The overall global Covid-19 caseload topped 541 million and the deaths surged to more than six million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In its latest update, JHU revealed on Thursday that the ....

  • EU urges to provide int’l aid to help Afghanistan’s quake victims

    Date: 2022-06-23 07:41:45 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:15 - ID:9636916

    BRUSSELS, June 23 (MENA) – The European Union has called for offering international assistance for Afghans after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck eastern Afghanistan overnight with tremors felt as far as neighboring ....

  • China launches new batch of remote sensing satellites

    Date: 2022-06-23 07:13:15 GMT - China - World - SN:11 - ID:9636923

    BEIJING, June 23 (MENA) - China successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Thursday, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The satellites were ....

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