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Florida authorities propose relocating summer Olympics from Tokyo to US
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Florida [US], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): Florida chief financial officer Jimmy Patronis has sent a letter to International Olympic Committee (OIC) president Thomas Bach proposing to relocate the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games from Japan to the United States.
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Russian court arrests head of Navalny's HQ in Khabarovsk for disobeying po
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Khabarovsk [Russia], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): The coordinator of opposition figure Alexei Navalny's office in the Russian far-eastern city of Khabarovsk, Alexey Vorsin, has been placed under administrative arrest for 11 days for resisting police officers, the city's central district court t
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US extradites Colombian paramilitary member
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): Former Colombian paramilitary member Hernan Giraldo Serna was extradited from the United States after serving 12 years in jail for drug trafficking to face over 40 arrest warrants at home for terrorism, torture, the sexual abuse of minors, abducti
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Russia records less than 19,000 COVID-19 cases in 24 Hours for 1st time si
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia's single-day coronavirus cases increase fell below 19,000 for the first time since November 3 as 18,241 new cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, the response centre said on Tuesday.
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COVID-19 death toll in Mexico tops 150,000
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Mexico City [Mexico], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): The coronavirus death toll in Mexico has surpassed 150,000 people, a senior health official said.
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Mexican Foreign Secy gets negative COVID-19 test result after President te
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Mexico City [Mexico], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard says he tested negative for COVID-19 after it was revealed that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was infected with the coronavirus.
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Biden promises one million vaccinations daily in 3 weeks
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): US President Joe Biden told reporters that in three weeks the country will be able to perform one million vaccinations a day with a potential of reaching 1.5 million.
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WHO expert says no need to prioritise vaccination of Tokyo Olympics partic
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): The executive director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme, Mike Ryan, has said that there was no need to prioritize the vaccination of the athletes participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo planned for Ju
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Italian PM to announce his decision to resign today
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Genoa [Italy], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will announce his decision to resign today amid a political crisis in the country, the statement by the presidency of the council reads.
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Biden signs order to reverse Trump's transgender military ban
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US] January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): President Joe Biden signed an executive order that brought in a policy of including all qualified Americans to serve in the US military, effectively overturning a ban on transgender persons that was introduced by the former Trump administration, t
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Send all pre-paid doses of AstraZeneca despite plan to delay supply, says
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): The European Union has demanded UK pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca deliver all the pre-paid doses against the coronavirus and provide a report on the company's activities, following its recent decision to delay the supply of the vaccine to the
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Bulgaria to make all incoming travellers take COVID-19 tests
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Sofia [Bulgaria], January 25 (ANI/Sputnik): All passengers arriving in Bulgaria will now have to provide proof of the negative COVID-19 test, as the country tries to curb the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus, the country's Health Minister Kostadin Angelov said on Monday.
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