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Blinken promises US embassy to stay in Jerusalem
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI/Sputnik): US Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken committed to keeping the American embassy in Jerusalem and continuing to view the disputed city as the capital of Israel.
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Will review US force presence in Mideast to address Russia, China challeng
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI/Sputnik): President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, said during his Senate confirmation hearing that he will review the US force presence in the Middle East to address challenges from Russia and China.
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Germany to extend COVID-related restrictions until Feb 14: Merkel
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], January 20 (ANI/Sputnik): Germany will extend and strengthen the coronavirus-related restrictive measures until February 14, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
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UK registers largest single-day rise in COVID-19 deaths to 1,610
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], January 20 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll rose by 1,610 on Tuesday, the largest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic, the UK Department for Health and Social Care said.
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Iraq approves Sinopharm, AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The Iraqi authorities have approved the coronavirus vaccines by UK-Swedish company AstraZeneca and China's Sinopharm for emergency use, the Iraqi Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.
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Russia registers 21,734 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 21,734 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, down from 22,857 the day before, taking the tally to 3,612,800, the coronavirus response center said on Tuesday.
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Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture to introduce alert mode over UK Covid variant
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The Shizuoka prefecture in Japan is to declare a high alert mode over the spread of the UK strain of the coronavirus, which was recently found in people with no record of traveling to the United Kingdom, the NHK public broadcaster reported on Tuesday
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6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Argentina's San Juan province
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
San Juan [Argentina], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred in Argentina, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports.
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Number of COVID-19 cases in US surpass 24 million
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Baltimore [US], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the United States has surpassed 24 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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Two UN peacekeepers killed in ambush in Central African Republic
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Two peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) were killed in an ambush in the southeast of the country, MINUSCA said.
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EU needs to speed up mass COVID vaccination process, says Vice President
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): The European Union needs to accelerate the process of mass vaccination against the novel coronavirus, as well as that of vaccine deliveries, Maros Sefcovic, the vice-president of the European Commission in charge of the Interinstitutional Relatio
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Over 4 mln Britons receive first dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], January 19 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 4 million people in the United Kingdom have received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, Public Health England said on Monday.
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