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  • Germany reports more than 136,000 new coronavirus infections

    Date: 2022-04-26 07:21:46 GMT - Germany - World - SN:9 - ID:9540008

    BERLIN, April 26 (MENA) - Germany recorded 136,798 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Tuesday. Coronavirus numbers remain very high in the country, with the ....

  • Australia reports more than 36,000 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2022-04-26 07:14:53 GMT - Australia - World - SN:8 - ID:9540006

    CANBERRA, April 26 (MENA) - Australia registered 36,350 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Australian Health Ministry said Tuesday. The caseload hit 5,756,477 in the country, according to the ministry. Also, 50 new fatalities ....

  • Russia: Kyiv can use weapons of mass destruction on battlefield

    Date: 2022-04-25 22:05:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:86 - ID:9539827

    MOSCOW, April 25 (MENA) – The Kyiv regime and Ukrainian radicals can use weapons of mass destruction to gain an advantage on the battlefield, TASS quoted Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN as ....

  • Elon Musk says he wants to make Twitter better than ever

    Date: 2022-04-25 20:08:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:79 - ID:9539737

    CALIFORNIA, April 25 (MENA) - Billionaire Elon Musk said “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” CNBC reported on Monday. Musk made ....

  • Elon Musk buys Twitter in $44 billion deal

    Date: 2022-04-25 19:49:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:77 - ID:9539736

    CALIFORNIA, April 25 (MENA) - Twitter has agreed to sell itself to Elon Musk in a deal valued at around $44 billion, the company said Monday. Under the terms of the deal, shareholders will receive $54.20 in cash for each share of Twitter stock ....

  • Blinken on Ukraine war: ‘Russia has already failed’

    Date: 2022-04-25 19:29:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:75 - ID:9539709

    WASHINGTON, April 25 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in Poland on Monday that “when it comes to Russia’s war aims, Russia is failing” and Ukraine is succeeding, the Hill reported. Blinken said that the Kremlin’s main ....

  • Biden taps Bridget Brink to be US ambassador to Ukraine

    Date: 2022-04-25 14:25:09 GMT - USA - World - SN:60 - ID:9539375

    WASHINGTON, April 25 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden plans to nominate Bridget Brink to serve as the next US ambassador to Ukraine, the White House announced Monday. The move is intended to fill a position that has remained officially vacant for ....

  • Russia announces ceasefire around Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant

    Date: 2022-04-25 13:30:54 GMT - Russia - World - SN:54 - ID:9539238

    MOSCOW, April 25 (MENA) – Russia's defense ministry on Monday announced a ceasefire around the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol to allow a civilian evacuation from the industrial area that has been sheltering the remaining Ukrainian resistance in ....

  • Zelensky gave US side action plan to strengthen sanctions against Russia

    Date: 2022-04-25 12:12:44 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:50 - ID:9538863

    KYIV, April 25 (MENA) - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky discussed defense assistance, financial support, and security guarantees to Ukraine with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrinform ....

  • NATO holds unofficial ministerial meeting in May in Berlin

    Date: 2022-04-25 11:53:08 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:48 - ID:9539010

    BRUSSELS, April 25 (MENA) - An informal meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NATO) at the level of Ministers of Foreign Affairs will be held in Berlin, Germany, on 14-15 May 2022, the NATO said on its website on Monday. The meeting which will ....

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