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  • Body of assassinated former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe arrives back in Tokyo

    Date: 2022-07-09 07:51:20 GMT - Japan - World - SN:9 - ID:9663632

    TOKYO, July 9 (MENA) – The body of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived back at his home in Tokyo on Saturday, a day after he was assassinated in a daylight shooting, sending a nation unaccustomed to gun violence into a state of shock ....

  • US seeks to drag out conflict in Ukraine by supplying it with new weapons – Russian Embassy

    Date: 2022-07-09 07:39:54 GMT - Russia - World - SN:8 - ID:9663599

    MOSCOW, July 9 (MENA) – The United States keeps supplying Ukraine with more weapons, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), because it wants to drag out the conflict at any cost, TASS reported. The Russian Embassy in the ....

  • India reports 18,840 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2022-07-09 07:23:39 GMT - India - World - SN:7 - ID:9663601

    NEW DELHI, July 9 (MENA) – India recorded 18,840 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 43,604,394, Xinhua reported. A total of 454,778 COVID-19 tests were conducted across the country in the past 24 hours, showed data ....

  • US announces $400 mln in additional security assistance for Ukraine

    Date: 2022-07-08 23:10:00 GMT - USA - World - SN:83 - ID:9663433

    WASHINGTON, July 8 (MENA) - The Biden administration will provide Ukraine with four more high mobility artillery rocket systems in the latest security assistance package, according to a senior defense official, CNN reported Friday. A senior US ....

  • Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal to buy it

    Date: 2022-07-08 23:08:37 GMT - USA - World - SN:82 - ID:9663439

    WASHINGTON, July 8 (MENA) - Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company’s chief legal officer Friday. But Twitter’s board chairman Bret Taylor said ....

  • 553 mln confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide - JHU

    Date: 2022-07-08 17:03:47 GMT - USA - World - SN:67 - ID:9663191

    WASHINGTON, July 8 (MENA) – There have been more than 553 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, including about 5 million cases in the past week, , according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Additionally, over 6.3 million have died ....

  • Japanese Police to investigate possible flaws in security for Abe

    Date: 2022-07-08 15:46:16 GMT - Japan - World - SN:59 - ID:9663003

    TOKYO, July 8 (MENA) – The Japanese National Police Agency (NPA) will look for flaws in security for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after he was shot to death while giving a speech on the campaign trail Friday, the Japan Times reported. The ....

  • Russian envoy to UK warns Russian troop withdrawal from southern Ukraine would spark provocations

    Date: 2022-07-08 14:53:13 GMT - Russia - World - SN:49 - ID:9662966

    LONDON, July 8 (MENA) - If Russian forces pulled out of southern Ukraine that would trigger another spiral of violence in the region, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrey Kelin said on Friday. "We are going to liberate all of the ....

  • EU sends personal protective equipment worth EUR 1M to Ukrainian border guards

    Date: 2022-07-08 14:47:54 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:55 - ID:9663037

    LONDON, July 8 (MENA) - The European Union handed over personal protective equipment worth EUR 977,000 to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reported. “As part of the EU Support to Strengthening ....

  • Biden 'stunned, outraged and deeply saddened' over Abe killing

    Date: 2022-07-08 14:44:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:54 - ID:9663000

    WASHINGTON, July 8 (MENA) – US President Joe Biden on Friday said he was "stunned, outraged and deeply saddened by the news that my friend Abe Shinzo, former Prime Minister of Japan, was shot and killed while campaigning," CNN reported. Abe, 67, ....

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