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Over 40 people injured in Peru earthquake
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Lima [Peru], July 31 (ANI/Sputnik): At least 41 people were injured after a strong earthquake hit northwestern Peru, the Piura region's health department said.
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US charges Canadian national in plot to export lab equipment to Iran
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 31 (ANI/Sputnik): A federal grand jury has indicted a Canadian citizen on charges of illegally exporting laboratory equipment to Iran, the US Justice Department said.
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Recent COVID outbreak in China's Jiangsu province likely originated on fli
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow, [Russia], July 30 (ANI/Sputnik): As per Chinese public health officials, the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province is likely to have originated on a flight from Moscow in early July.
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Russia records 23,564 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 30 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 23,564 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, up from 23,270 the day before, taking the overall tally to 6,242,066, the federal response center said on Friday.
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Initial results of AstraZeneca, Sputnik V 'mix & match' vaccine joint
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 30 (ANI): Announcing the initial safety results of the world's first study of a combination of the AstraZeneca and Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), on Friday said that interim analysis of the data demonstrates a high safety prof
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Guatemala hit with massive anti-government protests amid corruption scanda
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mexico City [Mexico], July 30 (ANI/Sputnik): Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Guatemala to demand the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei and Attorney General Maria Porras over the firing of a well-known anti-corruption prosecutor, Juan Francisco Sandoval.
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Construction of camp for Afghan refugees begins in southern Tajikistan
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Dushanbe [Tajikistan] July 30 (ANI): Tajikistan has begun the construction of a camp for refugees from Afghanistan in the border region of Khatlon in the country's south, reported Sputnik quoting local authorities.
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India received help from 52 countries during second wave of COVID-19, says
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): International community came forward with offers of solidarity and assistance for specific medicines and equipment that were not immediately available in the country during the second wave of COVID-19 and material from 52 countries have been received till
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Zelensky-Biden Talks to Be 'Heated' Due to Nord Stream Deal - Ukrainian Ru
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine] July 29 (ANI/Sputnik): Ukrainian ruling party leader Davyd Arakhamia said that he expects the closed-door part of the upcoming meeting of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Joe Biden to be "heated" due to the Nord Stream 2 deal recently reached by the United States
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Efficacy of Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine drops to 84pc after 6 mont
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 29 (ANI/Sputnik): The efficacy of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine fell from 96% to 84% after six months, a new preprint report by medRxiv showed on Wednesday.
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Trump blasts Senate Republicans for 'terrible' infrastructure deal
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 29 (ANI/Sputnik): Former US President Donald Trump has blasted Senate Republicans for striking a deal with Democratic counterparts on a near 1 trillion dollars infrastructure package.
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Not the right time to raise interest rates, says US Fed
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 29 (ANI/Sputnik): The time is not right yet to raise US interest rates as the Federal Reserve is still focused on buying bonds to support an economy recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, Chairman Jerome Powell said.
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