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High-Risk zone declared in northeastern China due to new COVID-19 cluster
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 10 (Sputnik/ANI): The Chinese city of Shulan in the northeastern Jilin province has been declared a high-risk zone after 11 people got infected with the novel coronavirus, provincial authorities said on Sunday.
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Pakistan extends partial lockdown to May 31
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 10 (ANI): In view of the incessant surge in daily COVID-19 cases, authorities in the province of Punjab and Islamabad capital territory have extended the lockdown restrictions for another three weeks till May 31 with certain exemptions provided to traders and busine
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Six dead in Afghanistan's Ghor province after protest turns violent
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 9 (ANI): At least six persons were killed while 19 others were injured after a protest over lack of COVID-19 aid in Afghanistan's Ghor province turned violent on Saturday.
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COVID-19 cases cross 26,000 mark in Pakistan, death toll reaches 611
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 9 (ANI): The number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan have surged past 26,000 even as the provinces announced partial easing of lockdown measures.
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With 35 new cases, COVID-19 count crosses 700 in Jammu-Kashmir
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir)[India], May 3 (ANI): With 35 new COVID-19 cases reported in Jammu and Kashmir, the count of confirmed cases in the Union Territory reached 701 on Sunday, according to the media bulletin issued by the government.
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Canada's Alberta weighs appointing own chief firearms officer after gun ba
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], May 2 (Sputnik/ANI): The Canadian province of Alberta is considering appointing its own chief firearms officer in response to Ottawa's decision to ban 1,500 models and variants of military-grade assault weapons, Premier Jason Kenney said in a statement.
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Four killed, 23 injured in blast in Syria's Aleppo
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Damascus [Syria], May 2 (ANI): At least four people were killed while 23 others were injured in an explosion that took place in storehouse of cooking gas cylinders in a town in Syria's Aleppo province on Friday (local time).
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7 IS militants killed in anti-terror operation in Iraq's Salahudin provinc
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], May 1 (ANI): Seven Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in an operation by the Iraqi paramilitary Hashd Shaabi on Thursday in Salahudin province.
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Senior security official killed, 5 injured due to blast in Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Helmand [Afghnaistan], April 30 (Sputnik/ANI): An explosion of a roadside bomb in one of the districts of the southernmost Helmand province of Afghanistan left the local director for security killed and five soldiers injured, a security source told Sputnik on condition of anonymity on Thursd
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US concerned by STC 'self-rule' declaration in south Yemen, says Pompeo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], April 29 (Sputnik/ANI): The United States is concerned that the Southern Transitional Council (STC) has declared self-rule in Yemen's southern provinces, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said on Tuesday (local time).
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4 policemen killed, 5 injured in Taliban attack in Afghanistan's Oruzgan
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Oruzgan [Afghanistan], April 26 (Sputnik/ANI): Four Afghan policemen were killed and five others were injured as Taliban militants carried out an attack on a security checkpoint in the Nachin area of the country's central province of Oruzgan, a security source told Sputnik on Sunday.
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World Sindhi Congress condemns force abduction, conversion of Hindu girls
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
London, [UK] April 25 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) has condemned the forceful abduction and conversion of two minor Hindu girls from Chundiko town in Sindh province of Pakistan.
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