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  • Japanese PM arrives in Indonesia

    Date: 2022-04-29 10:52:16 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:33 - ID:9545210

    JAKARTA, April 29 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived here Friday as part of an eight-day tour of five nations in Southeast Asia and Europe to boost relations amid China's growing assertiveness and the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, ....

  • Russia extends flight ban in Central, South regions until May 7

    Date: 2022-04-29 09:50:42 GMT - Russia - World - SN:28 - ID:9545218

    MOSCOW, April 29 (MENA) - The Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviatsiya) said on Friday that the temporary restriction of flights to 11 airports in the southern and central parts of Russia bordering Ukraine has been extended until May ....

  • UK Defense Ministry: Russia seeks to control Donetsk, Luhansk

    Date: 2022-04-29 09:47:44 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:27 - ID:9545189

    LONDON, April 29 (MENA) - The UK Defense Ministry has released its latest intelligence update about the ongoing situation in the war-torn nation, Sky News reported on Friday. In the latest update, the UK Defense Ministry has stated that the ....

  • Germany reports more than 101,000 new coronavirus infections

    Date: 2022-04-29 09:33:40 GMT - Germany - World - SN:25 - ID:9545183

    BERLIN, April 29 (MENA) - Germany recorded 101,610 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Friday. Coronavirus numbers remain very high in the country, with the total ....

  • 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 ....

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