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Finland imposes restrictions on restaurants as fourth COVID-19 wave hits
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Helinski [Finland], July 22 (ANI/Sputnik): Food and drink businesses in Finnish regions with fast spread of the coronavirus will be required to observe new restrictions on liquor sale and opening hours beginning from July 24, the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health said on Thursday
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Belgium's Wallonia to Create Emergency Help Mechanism for Flood Victims
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium] July 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The authorities of the Wallonia-Brussels region in Belgium, which suffered the greatest damage from recent floods, have decided to create an emergency mechanism to assist the affected regions, Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported.
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Parts of K'taka to receive moderate rainfall till Thursday: KSNDMC
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 21 (ANI): Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) predicted widespread moderate rainfall at coastal, Malnad, south-interior and north-interior regions till Thursday.
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Seven new members appointed to CGF Anti-Doping and Medical Commission
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], July 21 (ANI): The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Executive Board has confirmed seven new members for its Anti-Doping and Medical Commission following an open recruitment process that saw successful candidates appointed from all six regions of the Commonwealth.
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Tigray conflict could trigger all-out war in Ethiopia
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia] July 21 (ANI): Special forces and militias from a number of Ethiopia's regions are mobilizing to back the federal government's military operations in Tigray, which could lead to the intensification of the conflict in the country.
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Redundant modular network supports proper brain communication: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 18 (ANI): At Baylor College of Medicine, Dr Nuo Li, assistant professor of neuroscience and a McNair Scholar, and his colleagues investigated the nature of the communication between brain regions involved in working memory and found evidence that a modular network organ
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Study links alcohol consumption to more than 740,000 new cancer cases in 2
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 17 (ANI): According to a study, four per cent of newly diagnosed cancer cases in 2020 may be associated with drinking alcohol. The authors called for greater public awareness of the link between alcohol and cancers and increased government interventions to reduce alcoho
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Death toll rises to 212 in South Africa's violent protest
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], July 17 (ANI/Xinhua)Two hundred and twelve people were killed in the past week's violent protest happening in the eastern regions of South Africa, said the country's Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni Friday when briefing the media.
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Rats prefer to help their own kind, humans may be similarly wired: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, pinpoints the brain regions that drive rats to prioritise their nearest
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Study finds redundant modular network supports proper brain communication
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 13 (ANI): Recall a phone number or directions just recited and your brain will be actively communicating across many regions. It is thought that working memory relies on interactions between these regions, but how these brain areas interact and properly represent memory
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Pakistan deputes investment counselors in China to lure investors
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] July 12 (ANI): Amid dwindling economy, Pakistan has deputed eight investment counselors in different regions of China for potential joint ventures and to promote foreign investment in industrialisation under the second phase of the latter-financed economic projects.
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Attempts being made to create wedge between Kashmir, Jammu: Mehbooba Mufti
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 9 (ANI): Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said that attempts are now being made to create a wedge between the regions of Kashmir and Jammu for vested interests.
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