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Turkey registers 15 cases of new strain of Coronavirus
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], January 2 (ANI/Sputnik): Turkey has recorded 15 cases of the new strain of the coronavirus, which was firstly detected in the United Kingdom, national Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca said.
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US sanctions Cuban Bank for ties with military
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States has added Cuban Banco Financiero International to its list of sanctioned entities, saying it is controlled by the country's military, State Secretary Mike Pompeo said Friday.
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18 Taliban terrorists killed in eastern Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Eighteen Taliban terrorists were killed in an airstrike after the Afghan security forces foiled an attack on security checkpoints in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, Governor Ziaulhaq Amarkhil said on Friday.
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France grants Legion of Honor orders to COVID-19 responders
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Hundreds of people who were at the frontlines of the COVID-19 response in France last year were awarded the Legion of Honor orders of merit, the French government's official gazette, Journal Officiel, reported on Friday.
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Russia records 27,039 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has registered 27,039 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, down from 27,747 the day before, bringing the total to 3,186,336, the federal response center said on Friday.
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New Zealand's Gisborne airport resume activities after evacuation
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The airport of New Zealand's northeastern city of Gisborne said on Friday that it had been allowed to resume activities following the mass evacuation over the bomb threat.
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Aden airport attack resulted from Yemen's foreign occupation, says Iranian
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The deadly terrorist attack on the airport of the southern Yemeni city of Aden is a result of the foreign occupation of the country, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said.
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New Zealand's Gisborne airport evacuated following bomb threat
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The airport of New Zealand's northeastern city of Gisborne said that there was mass evacuation in it on Friday over a bomb threat.
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Slovakia registers record 6,315 COVID-19 cases over past 24 hours
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Bratislava [Slovakia], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Slovakia has registered 6,315 new coronavirus cases within the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak, the national Ministry of Health said.
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Scottish First Minister Sturgeon vows to return Scotland to EU
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Glasgow [UK], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon promised on Friday to return Scotland to the European Union soon.
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Tiny antibody from COVID-19 immunised llama shows promise treating human
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): US military scientists identified a miniature antibody - a nanobody - produced by a llama that appears to work well in liquid or aerosol form, suggesting it could help protect a person from the novel coronavirus, the Defense Department said in a pres
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WHO issues Emergency Use Validation for Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization said on Thursday it had issued an emergency use validation for the vaccine against the coronavirus developed by the Pfizer and BioNTech companies, the first one since the start of the pandemic.
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