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Navalny's spokeswoman detained for violating sanitary rules
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow [Russia], January 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The Police have detained Kira Yarmysh, the spokeswoman of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, for violating sanitary regulations at the unauthorized demonstrations held earlier this month, Yarmysh's lawyer said.
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Pentagon pauses plan to offer COVID-19 vaccine to Guantanamo Bay prisoners
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Washington [US], January 31 (ANI): The Pentagon (the US Department of Justice Headquarters) on Saturday announced that it is pausing the vaccination of Guantanamo Bay detainees against COVID-19.
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Paris Police face internal probe after officer filmed beating protester
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Paris [France], January 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The Paris prefect has ordered an internal probe into the beating of a protester by an officer at Saturday's rally, a French news channel cited a police source as saying.
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US COVID-19 cases surpass 26M
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Baltimore [US], January 31 (ANI/Xinhua): The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 26 million on Saturday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
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India delivering COVID-19 vaccines to Oman reflects friendship spanning mi
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Muscat [Oman], January 31 (ANI): A consignment of India-made vaccines arrived in Muscat on Saturday, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar adding that India providing vaccines to Oman is a friendship "spanning millennia."
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Argentina extends social distancing measures for another month
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Buenos Aires [Argentina], January 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Argentina has decided to extend mandatory social distancing measures until the end of February to curb the further spread of the coronavirus, according to a decree issued by President Alberto Fernandez on Saturday.
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Pakistan claims former ISI chief Durrani in touch with RAW since 2008
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Islamabad [Pakistan], January 28 (ANI): Pakistan's defence ministry has opposed efforts by former ISI Chief's Lt Gen (retired) Asad Durrani's efforts to get his name removed from a no-fly list. It has claimed that Durrani had been interacting with India's external intelligence agency -- RAW
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9 detained in Russia's Vladivostok over police disobedience
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Vladivostok [Russia], January 28 (ANI/Sputnik): At least nine people were detained in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on charges of police disobedience during last weekend's protests, their lawyer, Polina Sidelnikova, told Sputnik on Thursday.
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South Africa advises citizens against wrapping coffins of COVID-19 victims
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Johannesburg [South Africa], January 28 (ANI/Sputnik): There is no need to cover the coffins of people who died of COVID-19 in plastic wraps or mark them with biohazard stickers prior to burial, the South African Department of Health said.
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India-China ties 'profoundly disturbed' post Ladakh standoff: Jaishankar
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New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said the standoff between the Indian Army and the People's Liberation Army in Ladakh last year at the Galwan Valley in Eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) has 'profoundly' disturbed Indi
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Research shows Regeneron's COVID-19 antibody cocktail effective against co
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New York [US], January 28 (ANI): The tests conducted on two different variants of the coronavirus show that one of the two monoclonal antibodies in Regeneron's cocktail therapy can neutralize both, despite the mutations, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Several suspected organisers of twin terrorist attacks in Baghdad detained
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Baghdad [Iraq], January 28 (ANI/Sputnik): Several people suspected of organising the recent twin terrorist attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad have been detained, a member of the Iraqi parliament's defence and security committee said.
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