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Russia records 18,024 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], September 8 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia recorded 18,024 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, up from 17,425 cases the day before, bringing the cumulative total to 7,065,904, the federal response center said on Wednesday.
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US 'concerned' by affiliations, track records of some Taliban cabinet memb
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [United States], September 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The Biden administration is concerned about the affiliations and track records of several newly-announced Taliban (banned in Russia as a terrorist group) cabinet members, a State Department spokesperson said in a statement to Sputnik.
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8 injured in highrise gas explosion in Russia's Noginsk
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], September 8 (ANI/Sputnik): At least eight people were injured in a gas explosion in a nine-story residential building in the Russian city of Noginsk in the Moscow Region, the local health ministry told Sputnik on Wednesday.
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EU-US trade and technology council to be launched in September
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], September 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The EU-US Trade and Technology Council is to be launched later this month, Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission executive vice-president, said on Tuesday.
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UN in touch with Guinea, neighbors to ensure coordinated response to crisi
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Nations is in contact with national actors in Guinea, its neighbouring countries and the international community to ensure a coordinated response to the political crisis there following a military coup, UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said on
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Sharia law will be in force in Afghanistan, says Taliban supreme leader
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 7 (ANI): The Taliban's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said that Sharia law would be in force in Afghanistan as the outfit announced its caretaker government in Kabul on Tuesday, Sputnik reported.
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Trudeau says gravel throwing incident 'absolutely unacceptable,' slams 'an
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], September 7 (ANI/Sputnik): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday condemned protesters who hurled gravel at him during a campaign stop and tore into those rallying against public health measures.
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Biden authorises $47mln in assistance to Lebanese Armed Forces: White Hous
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 7 (ANI/Sputnik): US President Joe Biden authorised Secretary of State Antony Blinken to direct up to $47 million in assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces, Biden said in a memorandum to Blinken published by the White House on Tuesday.
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Afghanistan's crisis: Taliban prohibits media for circulating news of Resi
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 7 (ANI): The Taliban have prohibited Afghan news media from circulating the message of Ahmad Massoud, the leader of Panjshir National Resistance Front (NRF) who called for a "national uprising" against the Taliban, Sputnik reported on Monday.
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Technical issues still remain for formation of new Afghanistan govt: Talib
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 7 (ANI): Taliban spokesperson Ahmadullah Muttaki on Tuesday said that preparations for the announcement of the new Afghanistan government's formation have been completed, Sputnik reported.
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Death toll from Haiti earthquake rises to 2,248
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Port-au-Prince [Haiti], September 7 (ANI/Sputnik): The death toll from the Haiti earthquake has climbed to 2,248, with 329 people still unaccounted for, the Civil Protection Agency said on Monday, after completing rescue operations.
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Opposition alliance says military takeover of Guinea not a coup
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Conakry [Guinea], September 7 (ANI/Sputnik): The Coalition for the Restoration of Democracy (CORED), which unites 18 opposition parties in Guinea, said on Monday that the military takeover of the country is not a coup, as the ousted president had previously changed the basic law in an "uncon
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