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US firm's rocket fails to reach orbit due to technical issues
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): A spacecraft launched by the US firm Astra has failed to reach orbit because of an upper stage failure, the spacenews.com website reported.
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Russia registers 26,509 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has registered 26,509 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, down from 26,689 the day before, bringing the total to 2,734,454, the federal response centre said on Wednesday.
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Panama govt approves Pfizer, BioNTech coronavirus vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Panama City [Panama] December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Panama's government has approved the emergency use of the vaccine produced by US company Pfizer and German company BioNTech, the delivery of the first batch is expected in the first quarter of 2021, the country's Health Ministry said.
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Over 100,000 people signed up for Covid vaccination in Saudi Arabia on Day
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Over 100,000 people in Saudi Arabia have signed up for the coronavirus vaccination on the opening day of vaccination registration, the Saudi Health Ministry said.
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US population projected to exceed 332 million by April 2021
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): The population of the United States is expected to reach 332.5 million by April next year, US Census Bureau said in a statement.
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Speaker of Czech Parliament's Lower House tests COVID positive
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Prague [Czech Republic], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): The president of the Czech parliament's lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, Radek Vondracek, said he had contracted COVID-19 on Tuesday and was undergoing home treatment.
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Moscow's COVID-19 death toll stands at 10,095
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Moscow has registered 73 deaths of patients infected with COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the Russian capital's death toll to 10,095, the city's coronavirus response centre said in a statement on Tuesday.
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UN Chief appalled by record number of jailed journalists in 2020
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was appalled by the findings of a new report by an international watchdog that the number of imprisoned journalists hit a new high this year, United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a press briefing
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250,000 Germans may lose jobs due to COVID restrictions, says Retail Feder
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Up to 250,000 people may lose their jobs, with roughly 50,000 enterprises facing bankruptcy, if the German government does not provide adequate financial support to cover the losses caused by new anti-coronavirus restrictions that will close non-e
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Bomb blast kills provincial council deputy chief in central Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 15 (ANI/Sputnik): A bomb went off in the capital of Afghanistan's central Ghor province on Tuesday, leaving a senior member of the provincial council dead and another one injured, governor spokesman Arif Aber said, hours after a similar attack killed the deputy
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South Korea's Moon congratulates Biden on winning US presidential election
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], December 15 (ANI/Sputnik) South Korean leader Moon Jae-in has sent a congratulatory letter to Joe Biden after the US Electoral College confirmed the latter's victory in the US presidential election, South Korean presidential spokesman Kang Min-Seok said on Tuesday.
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Morocco confirms decision to reopen Israeli liaison offices
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 15 (ANI/Sputnik): Morocco has confirmed its intention for the bilateral reopening of liaison offices with Israel under the US-brokered agreement to normalize the diplomatic ties between the two nations, Morocco's Ambassador to Russia Lotfi Bouchaara told Sputnik.
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