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  • Financial Times: Outlooks for EU growth, inflation worsen as energy crisis hits

    Date: 2022-05-16 08:16:56 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:18 - ID:9571094

    LONDON, May 16 (MENA) - Brussels is set to cut its growth forecasts further and lift its inflation outlook as the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exacts its toll on the EU economy, the Financial Times reported Monday. Both ....

  • Blinken meets with Ukrainian FM

    Date: 2022-05-16 07:44:39 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:9571030

    WASHINGTON, May 16 (MENA) - Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Berlin, according to the US State Department. The two discussed this week’s G7 and NATO Foreign Ministerial meetings and ....

  • Germany plans to stop Russian oil imports regardless of EU sanctions – Yermak

    Date: 2022-05-16 07:40:30 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:12 - ID:9571027

    KYIV, May 16 (MENA) - Germany is planning to stop Russian oil imports regardless of EU sanctions. The relevant statement was made by Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent ....

  • Australia reports 42,045 new coronavirus infections in past 24 hrs

    Date: 2022-05-16 07:00:41 GMT - Australia - World - SN:9 - ID:9570973

    CANBERRA, May 16 (MENA) - Australia registered 42,045 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Australian Health Ministry said Monday. The caseload hit 6,635,840 in the country, according to the ministry. Also, 13 new fatalities ....

  • New Zealand reports 7,114 new Covid cases over past 24 hours

    Date: 2022-05-16 05:58:37 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:6 - ID:9570949

    WELLINGTON, May 16 (MENA) - New Zealand recorded 7,114 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 1,050,797, according to TVNZ. The total number of publicly reported deaths with ....

  • JHU: Global coronavirus cases exceed 521mn

    Date: 2022-05-16 05:50:41 GMT - USA - World - SN:5 - ID:9570947

    WASHIGNTON, May 16 (MENA) - The overall global Covid-19 caseload topped 521 million and the deaths surged to more than six million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In its latest update, JHU revealed on Monday that the current ....

  • Finland formally confirms intention to join Nato

    Date: 2022-05-15 12:50:29 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:44 - ID:9570092

    HELSINKI, May 15 (MENA) - Finland has formally confirmed it intends to join Nato, abandoning decades of military non-alignment in a historic policy shift triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, The Guardian reported. “The president and the ....

  • UK strongly supports requests by Finland, Sweden to join NATO

    Date: 2022-05-15 09:38:49 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:25 - ID:9569593

    LONDON, May 15 (MENA) - UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she was 'pleased' to have been joined by the foreign ministers from 'our friends Finland and Sweden' at an informal NATO meeting in Berlin this weekend, adding that the UK strongly supports ....

  • Ukraine MFA not to allow Russia to prolong suffering of Ukrainians through talks

    Date: 2022-05-15 09:03:07 GMT - Germany - World - SN:22 - ID:9569389

    BERLIN, May 15 (MENA) - The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry will not allow the Russian side to prolong the suffering of Ukrainians under the guise of talks. The relevant statement was made by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in an ....

  • US secretary of state arrives in Berlin

    Date: 2022-05-15 07:48:55 GMT - USA - World - SN:18 - ID:9569385

    WASHINGTON/BERLIN, May 15 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Berlin. "I have arrived in Berlin where I will informally meet with NATO foreign ministers to discuss our alliance and ....

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