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Russia may impose sanctions on UK broadcaster - ambassador
Date: 2022-05-05 22:02:36 GMT - Russia - World - SN:72 - ID:9553386
MOSCOW, May 5 (MENA) – Moscow may impose sanctions on a UK broadcaster in response to London’s decision to sanction Russian broadcaster VGTRK and several Russian journalists for their coverage of the events in Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to the UK ....
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Karine Jean-Pierre to replace Jen Psaki as White House press secretary
Date: 2022-05-05 20:51:37 GMT - USA - World - SN:69 - ID:9553331
WASHINGTON, May 5 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he has named Karine Jean-Pierre to be the next White House press secretary, CNBC reported. Jean-Pierre currently serves as principal deputy press secretary. Starting May ....
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Zelensky invites Germany's Scholz and Steinmeier to Kyiv
Date: 2022-05-05 18:55:45 GMT - Germany - World - SN:67 - ID:9553222
BERLIN, May 5 (MENA) – Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to visit, the German president's office said on Thursday, three weeks after Steinmeier was snubbed by ....
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Bank of England raises interest rates to highest level in 13 years
Date: 2022-05-05 16:27:47 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:60 - ID:9552877
LONDON, May 5 (MENA) - The Bank of England has raised interest rates to their highest level in 13 years as it looks to tackle the cost of living crisis gripping the UK, The Independent reported. It announced an increase from 0.75 per cent to 1 ....
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New naval task force's establishment aims to boost free trade flow in Red Sea : US Fifth Fleet commander
Date: 2022-05-05 16:26:27 GMT - USA - World - SN:59 - ID:9553037
WASHINGTON, May 5 (MENA) - The Combined Maritime Forces (CMF)'s formation of Combined Task Force (CTF) 153 affiliated with the US Fifth Fleet comes in a bid to boost maritime security as well as the free trade flow in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab and ....
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14.9 million excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, 2021: WHO
Date: 2022-05-05 15:45:30 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:56 - ID:9552943
GENEVA, May 5 (MENA) - New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 ....
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No new orders from Putin on Mariupol steel plant, says Kremlin
Date: 2022-05-05 14:26:58 GMT - Russia - World - SN:53 - ID:9552857
MOSCOW, May 5 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has not given any new orders on the Azovstal steel complex in the city of Mariupol so the previous decision to call off an operation to storm the facility but block it off instead remains in ....
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OPEC+ confirms 432,000 bpd June quota increase
Date: 2022-05-05 14:11:29 GMT - Austria - World - SN:52 - ID:9552881
VIENNA, May 5 (MENA) - OPEC+ and its oil-producing allies decided to increase output by 432,000 barrels per day (bpd) in June. The 23-member super group of producers, led by Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud and Russian ....
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WHO says surge in COVID-19 cases in Africa fueled by Omicron sub-variants
Date: 2022-05-05 13:57:04 GMT - Nigeria - World - SN:50 - ID:9552747
ABUJA, May 5 (MENA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Africa is experiencing an increase in reported COVID-19 cases driven by Omicron sub-variants despite a global decline in reported cases and deaths, CGTN reported on ....
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Flash floods, heavy rains kill 20 in Afghanistan, says official
Date: 2022-05-05 13:35:12 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:48 - ID:9552691
KABUL, May 5 (MENA) - Flash floods and heavy storms have killed at least 20 people in different provinces of Afghanistan, an Afghan official said on Thursday. Maulvi Sharafuddin Muslim, an official at the Ministry of State for Disaster ....
