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  • ITFC signs 12 finance deals worth US$7 bln in total at 47th IsDB annual meetings in Sharm El Sheikh

    Date: 2022-06-06 18:24:14 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - World - SN:90 - ID:9609026

    JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, June 6 (MENA) - The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB), signed 12 agreements, worth US$7 billion in total, with public and private sector bodies in ....

  • JHU: Coronavirus cases worldwide exceed 532 mln

    Date: 2022-06-06 16:45:17 GMT - USA - World - SN:83 - ID:9608938

    WASHINGTON, June 6 (MENA) - As many as 532,069,106 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) reported on Monday. It added that about 6,299,385 have died from the virus ....

  • OPEC Fund allocates dlrs 1bn to global food security

    Date: 2022-06-06 13:00:43 GMT - Austria - World - SN:55 - ID:9608484

    VIENNA, June 6 (MENA) - The OPEC Fund for International Development has dedicated 1 billion dollars of its resources over the next three years to the new OPEC Fund "Food Security Action Plan". The newly-allocated fund will be deployed as ....

  • Coronavirus is continuing to spread across world countries

    Date: 2022-06-06 12:52:40 GMT - World Capitals - World - SN:53 - ID:9608287

    WORLD CAPITALS, June 6 (MENA) - Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with more than 535 million confirmed cases and more than six million deaths reported across almost 200 countries. In India, the Health Ministry reported 4,518 new ....

  • Russia's Lavrov calls move to block plane to Serbia 'unprecedented'

    Date: 2022-06-06 11:47:37 GMT - Russia - World - SN:42 - ID:9608179

    MOSCOW, June 6 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday described as "unprecedented" a move by three eastern European countries to block his plane from traveling to Serbia, adding that he had yet to receive an explanation for their ....

  • Italy expects wars due to grain shortage

    Date: 2022-06-06 11:27:46 GMT - Italy - World - SN:40 - ID:9608123

    CAIRO, June 6 (MENA) - Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio believes that the grain shortage due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict would cause new wars in the world. If grain is not exported from Ukrainian ports, there will be new wars in ....

  • China highlights need to create conditions to resolve Ukrainian crisis

    Date: 2022-06-06 11:18:44 GMT - China - World - SN:38 - ID:9608126

    BEIJING, June 6 (MENA) - The international community needs to create conditions to resolve the complicated global situation caused by the Ukrainian crisis, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a briefing, TASS reported. He ....

  • Kuwaiti defense minister, UK senior officer discuss military topics

    Date: 2022-06-06 10:49:23 GMT - Kuwait - World - SN:32 - ID:9608009

    KUWAIT CITY, June 6 (MENA) - Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Talal Khaled Al Ahmad Al Sabah and UK Defense Senior Advisor to the Middle East Air Marshal, Martin Sampson, explored Monday mutual military concerns. The ....

  • US wasted over 82 million Covid vaccine doses: CDC

    Date: 2022-06-06 10:17:08 GMT - USA - World - SN:28 - ID:9607914

    WASHINGTON, June 6 (MENA) - Pharmacies, states, US territories and federal agencies discarded 82.1 million Covid vaccine doses from December 2020 through mid-May — just over 11 percent of the doses the federal government distributed, NBC News quoted ....

  • UK to gift multiple-launch rocket systems to Ukraine

    Date: 2022-06-06 09:29:59 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:21 - ID:9607767

    LONDON, June 6 (MENA) - Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Britain will send M270 launchers that can strike targets up to 80km away with precision guided rockets, GOV. UK said Monday. The UK will give multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) to ....

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