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  • UK Defense Minister Wallace front-runner to lead Conservatives: poll

    Date: 2022-07-07 22:22:59 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:86 - ID:9662151

    LONDON, July 7 (MENA) - British defense minister Ben Wallace is the favorite among Tory members to replace Boris Johnson as party leader and prime minister, new polling shows. The Defense secretary beats all other contenders in YouGov polling of ....

  • Putin: If West wants Russia defeated on battlefield, ‘let them try’

    Date: 2022-07-07 22:22:44 GMT - Russia - World - SN:85 - ID:9662169

    MOSCOW, July 7 (MENA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that if the West sought a defeat of Russia on the battlefield it was welcome to try, Tass reported. "We are hearing these days that they want to defeat us on the ....

  • Heathrow BA strike suspended after new pay offer

    Date: 2022-07-07 22:21:43 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:84 - ID:9662161

    CAIRO, July 7 (MENA) – Strike action by about 700 British Airways check-in staff at Heathrow has been suspended after unions said the airline had made a "vastly improved" pay offer, the BBC reported. The Unite union said an agreement was reached ....

  • JHU: Coronavirus cases suprass 552 mn

    Date: 2022-07-07 14:10:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:51 - ID:9661415

    WASHINGTON, July 7 (MENA) - The overall global Covid-19 caseload reached 552,568,662 and deaths surged to more than six million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU) on Thursday. In its latest update, JHU revealed that the current ....

  • British PM resigns as Conservative Party leader

    Date: 2022-07-07 12:09:40 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:38 - ID:9661156

    LONDON, July 7 (MENA) -​ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on Thursday as leader of Britain's Conservative Party. In a televised speech on the steps of Number 10, Johnson said he had agreed with Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the ....

  • UN: Inflation has pushed more than 71 million people into poverty

    Date: 2022-07-07 07:58:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:21 - ID:9660515

    NEW YORK, July 7 (MENA) - Soaring food and energy prices have pushed more than 71 million people worldwide into poverty since late February when Russia launched its military operation on Ukraine, a United Nations agency said. The report by the UN ....

  • India records 18,930 Covid cases in last 24 hrs

    Date: 2022-07-07 07:50:08 GMT - India - World - SN:20 - ID:9660500

    NEW DELHI, July 7 (MENA) - India reported 18,930 Covid cases in 24 hours on Thursday. The cumulative national caseload is over 43 million, according to the Hindustan Times. Health ministry data showed 14,650 patients had recovered and 35 died in ....

  • Poland welcomes 4.6 million refugees from Ukraine: officials

    Date: 2022-07-07 07:39:19 GMT - Poland - World - SN:19 - ID:9660481

    WARSAW, July 7 (MENA) - Poland has taken in nearly 4.6 million refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Polish Border Guard agency reported on Thursday. "Since February 24, a total of 4,596,000 people have crossed into Poland from ....

  • Singapore confirms first local case of monkeypox infection

    Date: 2022-07-07 07:30:26 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:17 - ID:9660464

    SINGAPORE, July 7 (MENA) - The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed the first local case of monkeypox infection in Singapore, Channel News Asia reported. The patient is a 45-year-old male Malaysian national who resides in Singapore. MOH said ....

  • UK's security, science ministers resign

    Date: 2022-07-07 07:08:16 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:14 - ID:9660429

    LONDON, July 7 (MENA) - The security and science ministers resigned overgrowing pressures on Prime Minister Boris Johnson. George Freeman, who was the science minister, has told the BBC that he has resigned from government this ....

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