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WHO chief asks China to cooperate with probe into origins of COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 13 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Ghebreyesus has called on China to cooperate with the ongoing investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 amid renewed call to further probe the virus.
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China's COVID-19 propaganda seeks to embolden foreign-origin theory
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 12 (ANI): As international pressure mounts on China to probe the origins of the novel coronavirus, Beijing seeks questions unanswered so that it can sell the foreign-origin possibility theory to its people.
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Indian-origin journalist wins Pulitzer Prize for exposing China's Uyghur M
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 12 (ANI): Indian origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan, along with two contributors, has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed secretly built China's mass detention camps for Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province.
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Chinese researchers find batch of new coronaviruses in bats: Report
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 12 (ANI): Amid renewed calls to probe into the origins of COVID-19, Chinese researchers said they had found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats.
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'Lord of the Rings' anime movie in the works
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 11 (ANI): New Line Cinema, the studio behind the Oscar-winning 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy and 'The Hobbit', is teaming up with Warner Bros. Animation for the original anime movie 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim'.
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UK, US back 'timely, transparent' WHO-convened COVID-19 origins study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 11 (ANI): The United States and the United Kingdom on Thursday extended support to a "timely, transparent and evidence-based independent process" for the next phase of the WHO-convened COVID-19 origins study, including in China.
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Thousands of wild animals were sold in Wuhan markets in months before COVI
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 10 (ANI): Thousands of wild animals were sold in markets in the Chinese city of Wuhan ahead of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to new research.
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US report on COVID-19 origins finds lab leak theory 'plausible', calls for
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 8 (ANI): Amid widespread calls for a fresh probe into the origins of the coronavirus in China's Wuhan, a report on the origins of COVID-19 by a US government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan is "plausib
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Blinken slams China over lack of transparency over COVID-19 origins
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [China], May 8 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday slammed China again for the lack of transparency on the origins of the coronavirus, as global pressure mounts for a fresh probe in Wuhan.
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Cannot compel China to give more info on COVID-19 origins, says WHO offici
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 8 (ANI): A top World Health Organization official on Monday said that the WHO cannot compel China to divulge more data on the origins of COVID-19.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to fly to space next month
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 8 (ANI): Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Monday announced that he will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin next month.
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WHO warns against overpriced vaccines, substandard COVID products
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 8 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday of the danger of buying overpriced vaccines from intermediaries, reminding those countries should buy vaccines certified by the WHO and make sure to identify the origin of the product.
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