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  • WB report says debt-service payments killing poor countries

    Date: 2022-12-06 21:46:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:91 - ID:9909739

    WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (MENA) - The World Bank has disclosed that the external debt of developing countries – low as well as middle-income economies – has accumulated to dlrs 9 trillion at the end of 2021 with about 60% of the poorest countries already ....

  • OIC condemns Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif bus blast

    Date: 2022-12-06 19:41:14 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - World - SN:76 - ID:9909920

    RIYADH, Dec 6 (MENA) - The Secretariat General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned in the strongest terms the deplorable Tuesday's bombing of a government bus carrying employees of a petroleum company in Mazar-i-Sharif, the ....

  • Japan should hold talks with North Korea to ease tensions, expert says

    Date: 2022-12-06 17:18:20 GMT - Japan - World - SN:68 - ID:9909675

    TOKYO, Dec 6 (MENA) - Japan should hold negotiations with North Korea as part of its efforts to ease tensions in the region, an expert, quoted by Japan Times, has said. “It’s important to provide North Korea, by continuing negotiations, with ‘a ....

  • Taiwan weapons developer among world's top 100 arms producers in 2021 - Survey

    Date: 2022-12-06 15:52:04 GMT - Taiwan - World - SN:63 - ID:9909606

    TAIPEI, Dec 6 (MENA) - The National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) was named for the first time as one of the world's top 100 arms producers in a survey published Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research ....

  • TSMC to unveil plans for 2nd Arizona fab - US official

    Date: 2022-12-06 15:50:27 GMT - Taiwan - World - SN:61 - ID:9909605

    ARIZONA, US, Dec 6 (MENA) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is set to unveil plans for a second fab in Arizona on Tuesday, part of an expanded US$40 billion investment in the US state, according to a White House official. Brian ....

  • Visiting Polish lawmaker eyes Taiwan investment, direct flights

    Date: 2022-12-06 15:18:50 GMT - Taiwan - World - SN:58 - ID:9909609

    TAIPEI, Dec 6 (MENA) - Visiting Polish parliamentarian Waldemar Andzel on Tuesday expressed the hope that Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturers will consider investing in the Central European nation during a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen in ....

  • Japanese fighter jets land in Philippines for 1st time since WWII

    Date: 2022-12-06 13:52:59 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:53 - ID:9909344

    MANILA, Dec 6 (MENA) - Two Japanese fighter jets landed in the Philippines on Tuesday for the first time since World War II, as part of cooperation between Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) and the Philippine Air Force, Kyodo news agency ....

  • UK risks sleepwalking into food supply crisis, warns farmers’ union

    Date: 2022-12-06 12:51:08 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:46 - ID:9909238

    LONDON, Dec 6 (MENA) - The British government risks “sleepwalking” into a food supply crisis unless it provides crucial support for British farmers struggling with the soaring cost of fuel, fertilizer and feed, the National Farmers’ Union of the UK ....

  • Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine authorized for use in children aged 6 months to 4 years

    Date: 2022-12-06 12:50:49 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:45 - ID:9909237

    LONDON, Dec 6 (MENA) - The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of the UK authorized the use of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty) infants and children aged 6 months to 4 years. According to the official website of ....

  • We have great responsibility for Western Balkans - Meloni

    Date: 2022-12-06 12:05:12 GMT - Albania - World - SN:40 - ID:9909155

    TIRANA, Dec 6 (MENA) - Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday that it is Europe's duty to help Italy's neighbors across the Adriatic as she arrived in Tirana for the EU-Western Balkans summit, ANSA reported. "I think we have a great ....

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