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  • Biden asks Congress to help provide Afghan refugees a pathway to become US residents

    Date: 2022-05-06 12:41:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:47 - ID:9553929

    WASHINGTON, May 6 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to provide tens of thousands of Afghan refugees with a pathway to become legal permanent residents of the United States, according to a proposal included in the supplemental budget ....

  • Russian Foreign Ministry: Talks with Ukraine are stagnant

    Date: 2022-05-06 12:15:49 GMT - Russia - World - SN:43 - ID:9553921

    MOSCOW, May 6 (MENA) - Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are stagnant, Alexey Zaitsev, deputy director of the information and press department at the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. "Russian-Ukrainian talks are in a state of ....

  • EU ambassadors probe sixth round of sanctions against Russia

    Date: 2022-05-06 10:51:43 GMT - Russia - World - SN:35 - ID:9553747

    MOSCOW, May 6 (MENA) – EU ambassadors are meeting in Brussels on Friday to finalize a sixth round of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Euro News reported. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen told MEPs earlier this ....

  • MEPs call on EU to tighten sanctions on Russia

    Date: 2022-05-06 09:40:43 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:30 - ID:9553693

    BRUSSELS, May 6 (MENA) – The Members of the European Parliament have called on the EU to impose tighter restrictions on Russia, while the European transport and tourism operators have offered help to refugees fleeing Ukraine, according to a press ....

  • Japan to ease COVID border controls like G-7 states in June

    Date: 2022-05-06 09:19:53 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:27 - ID:9553683

    LONDON, May 6 (MENA) - Japan will further ease in June border controls implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and bring them on par with other Group of Seven nations, Kyodo News Agency quoted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as ....

  • Ukrainian crisis to have broader regional, global implications

    Date: 2022-05-06 09:16:16 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:26 - ID:9553604

    NEW YORK, May 6 (MENA) - India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti warned that the Ukrainian conflict is having a destabilizing effect with broader regional and global implications, The New Indian Express ....

  • Global Covid-19 cases surge past 516 million: Johns Hopkins University

    Date: 2022-05-06 08:50:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:24 - ID:9553636

    WASHINGTON, May 6 (MENA) - The total number of Covid cases has surged past 516 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the globe. According to Johns Hopkins University, the total case count mounted to 516,180,915 while the death toll ....

  • 'Almost 518 civilians' evacuated from Mariupol in last 24 hours, Ukraine says

    Date: 2022-05-06 08:32:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:22 - ID:9553577

    MOSCOW, May 6 (MENA) – Almost 518 civilians, including 67 children, were evacuated from the battered city of Mariupol in the last 24 hours. The evacuated people were transferred to a temporary accommodation centre, Donetsk authorities announced ....

  • Evacuation from Mariupol will continue today: Ukraine's official

    Date: 2022-05-06 08:19:17 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:21 - ID:9553602

    KYIV, May 6 (MENA) - Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has announced the continuation of the evacuation of the civilians population from the besieged port city of Mariupol. The work of the humanitarian corridor is scheduled ....

  • Russian embassy in Washington urges US destroy chemical weapons

    Date: 2022-05-06 08:01:08 GMT - Russia - World - SN:20 - ID:9553528

    MOSCOW, May 6 (MENA) – The Russian embassy in Washington denied on Friday accusations about Moscow's alleged plans to use chemical weapons in Ukraine and urged the United States to destroy its stockpiles of chemical weapons as it was enshrined in ....

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