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India donates funds to Taiwan to boost cooperation on traditional medicine
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], February 27 (ANI): India has donated Rs 1.5 million (NTD 570,000) to Taiwan's National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine (NRICM) on Friday to boost cooperation in traditional medicine.
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Pakistan foreign borrowing soars to USD 6.7 bn as debt mounts
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 27 (ANI): As Pakistan's financial debt continues to mount, the Imran Khan government received USD 6.7 billion in gross foreign loans in the first seven months of the current fiscal year, including a new commercial loan of USD 500 million from China last month.
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China restricting basic freedoms on pretext of national security, says UN
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 27 (ANI): As China continues to impose crackdowns on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang and people of Hong Kong under the draconian National Security Law, United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Friday said that Beijing was restricting basic civil and po
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'Germany's AfD party boycotted by media ahead of elections'
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], February 27 (ANI/Sputnik): The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the country's largest right-wing parliamentary opposition force, calls on the German media to guarantee an objective and fair representation of the party ahead of several local and federal elections, AfD me
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Guatemala President Giammattei thanks India for providing Covishield vacci
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Guatemala City [Guatemala], February 27 (ANI): Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India for providing 200,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine -- which is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India -- on Friday.
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Police evacuate nearly 2,600 properties in UK's Exeter due to World War II
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], February 27 (ANI/Sputnik): The discovery of an undetonated WWII-era explosive device forced the evacuation of some 2,600 buildings in Exeter city in southwest England, the local police department said on Saturday.
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Biden won't penalise Saudi Crown Prince over Khashoggi's killing: Official
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 27 (ANI): US President Joe Biden has decided that the diplomatic cost of directly penalising Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is too high, according to senior administration officials despite an intelligence finding that he directly approved the kil
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42 people including students abducted from school in Nigeria released
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Lagos [Nigeria], February 27 (ANI): At least 42 people, including students, who were kidnapped last week in an armed raid at a state-run school in Kagara in Niger state, northwest Nigeria, have been released, the vice-principal of the school, Mallam Saidu said on Saturday.
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Bangladeshi writer, detained over anti-govt social media posts, dies in ja
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], February 27 (ANI): Bangladeshi writer Mushtaq Ahmed who was detained last year over social media posts that were critical of the country's government has died in jail, officials and family members said on Friday.
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New climate pledges 'far short' of meeting Paris Agreement goals: UN
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], February 27 (ANI): The planet is on "red alert" because governments are failing to meet their climate change goals, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday.
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US FDA panel gives go-ahead to Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 27 (ANI): A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Friday endorsed Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine and recommended the agency grant emergency authorisation.
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Putin critic Navalny transferred to penal colony
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], February 27 (ANI): Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been transferred from a Moscow detention centre to a penal colony, according to state media.
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