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Dow Jones rises 4pc after week of record highs
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New York [US], March 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday posted its biggest weekly gain since November after the broad Wall Street indicator hit a streak of record highs through the week on confidence over an economy seen recovering rapidly from the coronavirus-impos
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Blinken, UN chief to stay in close touch on Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar
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New York [US], March 13 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed the situations in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Myanmar this week and agreed to remain in close contact on the issues, Department of State spokesperson Ned Price sa
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Brazil COVID-19 death toll surpasses 275,000
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Brasilia [Brazil], March 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Brazil comes now second in terms of the number of the confirmed coronavirus cases while the death toll from COVID-19 in the country has surpassed 275,000 people, the national Ministry of Health said.
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WHO grants emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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Geneva [Switzerland], March 13 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday issued emergency use authorization for Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the one-shot dose to be used as part of the United Nation's international vaccine distribution effort.
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US congressman demands shifting 2022 Olympics from Beijing amid gross huma
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Washington [US], March 13 (ANI): The United States and other countries should pursue moving the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Beijing to another place because of China's human rights violations and its responsibility for the novel coronavirus pandemic, US Congressman Michael McCaul
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Quad leaders discussed cyber attacks: White House
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Washington [US], March 13 (ANI): The leaders of the Quad countries of India, Australia, Japan and the United States discussed the issue of cyber attacks during talks conducted earlier in the day, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday.
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Quad leaders to hold in-person summit later this year: Sullivan
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Washington [US], March 13 (ANI): The leaders of the 'Quad' nations -- India, Australia, Japan and the United States will hold an in-person summit later this year said the United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Friday (local time).
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Covid-19 deaths in US worse than World War I, II, Vietnam, 9/11 combined:
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Washington [US], March 12 (ANI): US President Joe Biden, during his first prime time address to Americans, confronted grief and loss on the first anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdowns in the US and said that total deaths in the country is "more deaths than in World War One, World War Two,
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China threatening to turn Tibetan Buddhist community into govt's tool: Rep
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Washington [US], March 12 (ANI): New measures of surveillance and control imposed by the Chinese Communist Party are threatening to turn the Tibetan Buddhist monastic community into a tool of the Xi Jinping-led government, according to a rights group.
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Novavax COVID-19 vaccine highly effective in UK trial, but drops against S
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London [UK], March 12 (ANI): Novavax on Thursday said that final data from a trial in the United Kingdom shows its COVID-19 vaccine is almost 90 per cent effective, but the vaccine was far less effective in a separate trial in South Africa, given the virus variant there that has raised co
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WHO encourages all nations to closely monitor adverse effects of any vacci
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Genoa [Italy], March 12 (ANI/Sputnik): All countries should closely monitor adverse health effects related to the use of any vaccine, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) told Sputnik following the suspension of the AstraZeneca drug in several EU countries.
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 strikes Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula
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Vladivostok [Russia], March 12 (ANI/Sputnik): A 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East on Friday, the regional branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) told Sputnik.
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