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French Prime Minister pays tribute to slain teacher Samuel Paty
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Paris [France], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): French Prime Minister Jean Castex paid tribute on Saturday to history teacher Samuel Paty on the first anniversary of his killing by an Islamist, saying the 47-year-old defended France's core values.
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UK political leaders pay tribute to lawmaker stabbed to death in terrorist
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour party leader, Keir Starmer, paid tribute on Saturday to Conservative lawmaker David Amess, who was stabbed to death in an attack that is being treated as a terrorist incident by police.
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Four people injured in shooting outside US stadium
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Alabama [US], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Four people, including two minors, were injured during a shooting near a stadium where a high school football game was taking place in the city of Mobile in Alabama in the United States, CNN reported citing police officials.
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Russia sees record number of daily COVID-19 cases, deaths: Response Centre
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia}, October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has registered a record number of daily COVID-19 cases in the past day, with a further 33,208 people falling ill since Friday, the coronavirus response centre said on Saturday.
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Austrians invited to Presidential Palace for COVID-19 shots
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen invited citizens on Saturday to come by on October 26 and get their COVID-19 vaccine shots in the splendid marble hall of the imperial Hofburg Palace.
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Arctic Council received no proposals on banning Hydrocarbon development: M
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): The Arctic Council has not received any proposals to impose legally binding obligations on member states that would ban or limit hydrocarbon exploration, the Russian chairman of the council's senior Arctic officials committee told Sputnik.
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Japan PM wants to include possible attack on enemy bases in security strat
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper that the national security strategy should include the possibility to enemy bases for self-defence purposes.
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Over 40 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers in West Bank
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Gaza [Palestine], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 40 Palestinians were injured on Friday in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
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Two Turkish soldiers killed, five injured as blast hits vehicles in Syria'
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Damascus [Syria], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and five more injured as a convoy of military vehicles was hit by an explosion in the Syrian province of Idlib, a source from the site told Sputnik on Saturday.
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Brazil records 15,239 more COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Brasilia [Brazil], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 15,239 to 21,627,476 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Friday.
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Wall Street scores biggest week since June on strong US retail sales
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Wall Street scored its biggest week since June as strong retail sales boosted the risk appetite of equity market investors, despite surging inflationary pressures on the US economy.
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British media angered by Netflix's low corporation tax payments
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Netflix's corporation tax payments in the United Kingdom amounted to just 4 million pounds ($5.5 million) in 2020, despite the fact that the company earned about 1.15 billion pounds from its British subscribers during the first year of the COVID-19 pand
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