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South Korea keeps close tab on Pyongyang after fresh reports of propaganda
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], June 22 (ANI): South Korea is keeping a close eye on the North Korean military movements regarding Pyongyang's plan to send propaganda leaflets across the border while leaving open all response options, including military action, Yonhap news agency reported.
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South Korea to restrict visas, flights from Pakistan, Bangladesh after COV
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], June 22 (ANI): The South Korean government will restrict issuing visas to people from Pakistan and Bangladesh except for diplomatic and urgent business purposes, with effect from Tuesday, Yonhap news agency reported.
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IMF supports 70 nations with 25 billion dollars emergency financing amid C
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 20 (ANI): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) supported 70 countries with roughly about 25 billion dollars of emergency financing as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ripple across the globe, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Gunmen kill at least 24 Malian soldiers in ambush
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bamako [Mali] , June 16 (Sputnik/ANI): At least 24 Malian soldiers were killed on Sunday after attackers ambushed their convoy in southern Mali, the local AMAP news agency reported on Monday, citing the country's armed forces.
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Bolsonaro threatens to withdraw Brazil from WHO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], June 6 (ANI): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday (local time) threatened to withdraw his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), Xinhua news agency reported.
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Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surges to world's third-highest
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], June 5 (ANI): Brazil's total tally of deaths related to COVID-19 have surged to 34,021 after its health ministry on Thursday reported 1,437 new deaths in the last 24 hours, making its overall death toll the third highest in the world, Xinhua news agency reported citi
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UK lawmaker Douglas Ross resigns over Dominic Cummings' lockdown breach
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
London [UK], May 26 (ANI): UK Parliamentarian Douglas Ross announced his resignation on Tuesday in connection with the scandal around coronavirus quarantine violation by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's top aide, Dominic Cummings in March, Sputnik news agency reported.
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Rocket hits near US embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], May 19 (ANI): A rocket hit near the US embassy in Baghdad on early Tuesday morning and caused a large explosion, according to the military's statement cited by CGTN, China's state news agency.
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China can conduct 1.5 million nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 per day, say
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 16 (ANI): China is able to conduct 1.5 million nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 infections every day, a health official said on Saturday at a press conference here, stressing that testing capabilities need to improve further as work and production resumes, Xinhua news age
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UN chief says funding of WHO, humanitarians should not be cut amid COVID-1
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New York [USA], May 9 (Sputnik/ANI): The coronavirus pandemic requires an unprecedented global response, and reducing the funding of the World Health Organization (WHO), is untimely, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a Russian news agency.
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Kim Jong-un sends 'verbal message' to Xi on coronavirus success
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], May 08 (ANI): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a verbal message to Chinese President Xi Jinping, praising Beijing on its success in stemming coronavirus spread, Yonhap News Agency reported.
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Seoul says Kim Jong-un appears not to have undergone surgery
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], May 3 (ANI): North Korea's Kim Jong-un appears not to have undergone surgery, a South Korean presidential official told Yonhap news agency on Sunday, flatly denying speculation over the leader's health.
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