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  • UK min. urges British nationals against travelling to fight in Ukraine

    Date: 2022-04-29 09:31:15 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:24 - ID:9545178

    LONDON, April 29 (MENA) - US Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said British nationals should not travel to Ukraine to fight, but there are many other ways to aid the war effort. Speaking on Sky News this ....

  • S. Korean president calls for watertight defense posture over N. Korea's weapons testing

    Date: 2022-04-29 09:22:15 GMT - south korea - World - SN:22 - ID:9545133

    SEOUL, April 29 (MENA) - South Korean outgoing President Moon Jae-in called Friday on the military to maintain a watertight defense posture, expressing concerns that North Korea's continued testing of weapons may put the Korean Peninsula back into ....

  • New COVID-19 subvariant found in Japan patient

    Date: 2022-04-29 09:00:28 GMT - Japan - World - SN:19 - ID:9545126

    TOKYO, April 29 (MENA) - A new COVID-19 subvariant — which has genetic information from both the B.A.1 and B.A. 2 omicron sublineages — has been detected from a patient in Sendai, The Japan Times quoted the health ministry as saying. It marks the ....

  • N.Korea-China trade fair resumes after 7-yr halt over UN sanctions

    Date: 2022-04-29 08:45:00 GMT - North Korea - World - SN:18 - ID:9545081

    PYONGYANG, April 29 (MENA) - An international trade fair co-hosted by North Korea and China opened for the first time in seven years, according to Pyongyang's state media on Friday. It had been suspended since 2016 after China, the North's ....

  • China launches two new satellites

    Date: 2022-04-29 08:12:06 GMT - China - World - SN:17 - ID:9545047

    BEIJING, April 29 (MENA) - China successfully sent two satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported. The satellites, Siwei 01 and 02, were launched by a Long March-2C ....

  • EU-Armenia Partnership Committee convenes in Yerevan

    Date: 2022-04-29 07:56:05 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:16 - ID:9544998

    BRUSSELS, April 29 (MENA) - Established under the EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the EU-Armenia Partnership Committee met for the third time in Yerevan on Thursday, and for the first time since the CEPA entered ....

  • Australia reports more than 41,000 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2022-04-29 07:42:20 GMT - Australia - World - SN:14 - ID:9545022

    CANBERRA, April 29 (MENA) - Australia registered 41,696 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Australian Health Ministry said Friday. The caseload hit 5,889,048 in the country, according to the ministry. Also, 26 new fatalities ....

  • Poland receives more than 3 million refugees from Ukraine since Russian operation

    Date: 2022-04-29 07:39:32 GMT - Poland - World - SN:13 - ID:9545015

    WARSAW, April 29 (MENA) - Over 3 million refugees from Ukraine had crossed the border with Poland since the start of the Russian military operation, announced Poland's Border Guard on Friday. As many as 24,100 refugees crossed the ....

  • 12 women killed by landslide in Indonesia gold mine

    Date: 2022-04-29 07:21:52 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:12 - ID:9544997

    JAKARTA, April 29 (MENA) - Twelve women working in an illegal gold mine in Indonesia's North Sumatra province were killed when a cliff collapsed and triggered a landslide that buried them, the Star quoted the Indonesian police as saying on ....

  • Japan PM departs for Indonesia at start of Southeast Asia, Europe tour

    Date: 2022-04-29 06:38:00 GMT - Japan - World - SN:9 - ID:9544970

    TOKYO, April 29 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida departed on an eight-day tour of five nations in Southeast Asia and Europe on Friday to boost relations amid China's growing assertiveness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyodo news ....

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