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Philippines to relax ban on foreign travellers from Feb 1
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], January 29 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines will relax its ban on travellers, starting next month, from over 30 countries and regions that have confirmed cases of more transmissible COVID-19 variants, presidential spokesman Harry Roque said on Friday.
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Central African Republic declares emergency for 15 days amid post-election
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bangui [CAR], January 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The Central African Republic (CAR) has declared a state of emergency after rebel forces that refused to recognise the December presidential election results, attacked the country's capital of Bangui, presidential spokesman Albert Yaloke Mokpeme said.
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UN chief condemns suicide bombings in Iraq
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], January 22 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned Thursday's deadly twin suicide bombings targeting civilians at a market in Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, said his spokesman.
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Death toll from twin terrorist attack in Baghdad rose to 28
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], January 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The death toll in a double suicide attack in central Baghdad on Thursday rose to 28, while the number of those injured increased to 73, Tahsin Al-Khafaji, a spokesman for the country's Joint Operations Command, said.
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Taliban welcome US troop withdrawal in Afghanistan, reaffirm commitment to
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 16 (ANI/Sputnik): The Taliban see the US troop drawdown in Afghanistan as a "good advancement" in implementing the February deal, the spokesman for the movement's political office in Doha said on Saturday.
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UN peacekeeper killed in targeted attack in Central African Republic
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], January 16 (ANI): A United Nations peacekeeper was killed and another suffered injuries in an attack in the Central Africa Republic (CAR), said United Nations secretary-general's spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
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Taliban attack on Afghanistan's Darqad district repulsed, 9 killed
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Taluqan [Afghanistan], January 16 (ANI/Xinhua): A Taliban terrorist attack on Darqad district of the northern Takhar province has been repulsed and the armed group after suffering casualties has fled away, provincial government spokesman Abdul Khalil Asir said Saturday.
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1 killed, 7 injured in car explosion in Afghanistan's Ghazni
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Ghazni [Afghanistan], January 15 (ANI): One person was killed and seven others suffered injuries in car bomb explosion in Ghazni province early on Friday morning, Tolo News reported citing Ghazni governor's spokesman.
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Pope Francis, predecessor Benedict XVI vaccinated against Covid-19
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], January 14 (ANI/Sputnik): Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI have received their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines under the immunization campaign in the Vatican, Holy See spokesman Matteo Bruni told reporters on Thursday.
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Afghanistan: 3 killed in Kabul blast
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Three people have been confirmed dead and another injured as a blast struck a vehicle in Kabul on Sunday, Interior Ministry spokesman Tareq Arian said.
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Taliban says to uphold potential Non-Aggression Pact with Kabul as it does
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The Taliban is ready to uphold a non-aggression pact with the Afghani government as it has refrained from attacking US forces in the country in line with the peace agreement, a spokesman for the group, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Sunday.
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Afghanistan: 5 killed in car explosion in Kapisa
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Kapisa [Afghanistan], January 3 (ANI): At least five people were killed in a car explosion targeting the head of Islamic religious scholars council in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Kapisa, Sputnik reported citing police spokesman Shaiq Shorash said Sunday.
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