Search For "sputnik"
Germany's Greens pick Annalena Baerbock as candidate for Chancellor
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], April 19 (ANI/Sputnik): German green political party Alliance-90/The Greens has chosen its co-leader Annalena Baerbock as its candidate for German chancellor in the upcoming elections, Robert Habeck, the party's second co-leader, said on Monday.
Read More
Study of combined use of AstraZeneca, Pfizer vaccines to launch in Spain
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Madrid, April 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Clinical trials on the combined use of two vaccines, AstraZeneca and Pfizer, are set to begin in Spain, Raquel Yotti Alvarez, director of the Carlos III Health Institute, announced on Monday.
Read More
Russia registers 8,589 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 8,589 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, down from 8,632 the day before, taking the overall tally to 4,710,690, the coronavirus response center said on Monday.
Read More
Bitcoin crashes nearly 12 per cent after days of booming prices
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Bitcoin nosedived by almost 12 per cent in the past 24 hours to trade at around USD 54,916 early on Sunday, the lowest intraday level in months.
Read More
UK demands private medical care for jailed Russian activist Navalny
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The UK Foreign Office has demanded that Axey Navlealny, a jailed Russian opposition activist, be granted access to private medical care amid reports that his health has deteriorated.
Read More
Russia sees US trace in expulsion of diplomats from Czech Republic, says F
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The expulsion of Russian diplomats from the Czech Republic is the continuation of a series of anti-Russian actions and one cannot but see a US trace in this, the Russia Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
Read More
Russia registers 8,632 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 8,632 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, down from 9,321 the day before, taking the tally to 4,702,101, the coronavirus response centre said on Sunday.
Read More
Guillermo Lasso wins Ecuador's Presidential election with 52 pc votes
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Quito [Ecuador], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Guillermo Lasso from the CREO right-wing movement won Ecuador's presidential election with over 52 per cent of the votes, the National Electoral Council said, releasing final voting results.
Read More
Japan to have enough vaccines to inoculate all people over 16 by late Sept
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Japan will have enough coronavirus vaccines to provide them to everyone older than 16 by the end of September, Administrative Affairs Minister Taro Kono said on Sunday, in the wake of successful talks between Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Pfizer CEO
Read More
Biden says situation with Alexey Navalny 'totally unfair'
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): US President Joe Biden on Saturday said the situation with Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, who is currently serving a two-and-a-half prison term, is "totally unfair."
Read More
IAEA confirms Iran started enriching Uranium up to 60 pc
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran started enriching uranium up to 60 per cent, reaching its highest-ever level of enrichment, a spokesperson for the IAEA told Sputnik.
Read More
Czech Interior Minister says 18 Russian diplomats to be expelled from coun
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Czech [Prague], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Czech Interior Minister Jan Hamacek said on Saturday that 18 Russian diplomats would be expelled from the country on suspicion of being officers of Russia's special services, media reported.
Read More