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Magnitude 6.6 Earthquake registered east of South Sandwich Islands
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
South Sandwich Islands [UK], April 3 (ANI/Sputnik): A 6.6 magnitude earthquake was registered on Saturday east of the South Sandwich Islands in the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean, the US Geological Survey said.
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US, Japan, South Korea vow to continue cooperation to Denuclearize North K
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 3 (ANI/Sputnik): The national security advisors from the United States, Japan and South Korea have agreed to continue trilateral cooperation to denuclearize North Korea, the three officials said in a joint statement provided by the White House.
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Terrorists carry out 30 attacks on Syria's Idlib De-escalation Zone
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Damascus [Syria], April 3 (ANI/Sputnik): The Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group shelled Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone 30 times over the past 24 hours, Rear-Admiral Alexander Karpov, deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria, said at a
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Fire in Berlin hospital leaves 1 person killed, 5 injured
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Berlin [Belgium], April 2 (ANI/Sputnik): One person died and five others were injured as fire broke out in a hospital in Berlin's southwestern Zehlendorf district, the German capital's fire department said on Friday.
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US hosts Japan, South Korea security advisers as it completes N Korea poli
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 2 (ANI/Sputnik): US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan hosts on Friday his counterparts from Japan Shigeru Kitamura and South Korea Suh Hoon as the Joe Biden administration nears the completion of its North Korea policy review.
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Canada's Ontario to go into 4-week COVID-19 lockdown
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], April 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The Canadian province of Ontario will go into a four-week lockdown effective Saturday amid a steady rise in variant cases of the coronavirus disease, Premier Doug Ford announced on Thursday.
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UK police officer convicted of involvement in Neo-Nazi terrorist organisat
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
London [UK], April 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Benjamin Hannam, a Metropolitan Police constable, has become the first law enforcement officer in the UK to be convicted of belonging to a far-right terrorist group, after a London court found him guilty of being a recruiter for a banned neo-Nazi organisat
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Expert Committte demands additional information from Sputnik V on EUA in I
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): Russia's COVID-19 Sputnik V vaccine was denied emergency use authorisation in India on Thursday by the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) constituted by the central government.
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3,869 die of COVID-19 in Brazil in past 24 hours
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Brasilia [Brazil], April 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of people who have died of the coronavirus in Brazil has increased by record 3,869 to 321,515 within the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said on late Wednesday.
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Archaeologists find oldest salt production site in UK, dating back 6,000 y
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
London [UK], March 31 (ANI/Sputnik): A new archaeological discovery in the UK's North Yorkshire proved that neolithic people had been manufacturing salt in the region around 6,000 years ago, before the building of Stonehenge and over two thousand years earlier than previously thought, making
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New York State legalizes recreational cannabis in bid to stop racial margi
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New York [US], March 31 (ANI/Sputnik): New York has become the 15th state in the United States to legalize adult-use of recreational marijuana after years of discourse that the ban discriminates against communities of colour, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
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COVID-19: India to decide emergency use authorisation of Sputnik V vaccine
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): Meeting of Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) will be held on Wednesday to deliberate on emergency use authorisation application of Russian vaccine Sputnik V.
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