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Russia registers new single-day record of 28,782 COVID-19 cases
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 5 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has registered a new single-day record of 28,782 COVID-19 cases, up from the 27,403 new positive tests recorded the day before, bringing the country's case total to 2,431,731, the federal response center said on Saturday.
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Ukrainian Forces shell Luhansk People's Republic three times over past 24
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kiev [Ukraine], December 5 (ANI/Sputnik): The Ukrainian armed forces have violated a ceasefire in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) three times over the past 24 hours, the LPR representative at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire told Sputnik on Saturday.
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Germany confirms over 23,300 new COVID-19 cases over past day
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], December 5 (ANI/Sputnik): Germany has registered 23,318 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, with total count reaching 1,153,556, the Robert Koch Institute said on Saturday.
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Mexico records 12,127 new COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mexico City [Mexico], December 5 (ANI/Sputnik): Mexico has registered 12,127 new COVID-19 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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Biden says planning scaled-down inauguration to prevent crowds amid pandem
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 5 (ANI/Sputnik): US President-Elect Joe Biden announced plans for a scaled-down ceremony for his January inauguration amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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COVID-19 cases in Brazil surpass 6.5 million-mark
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Brasilia [Brazil], December 5 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 46,884 to 6,533,968 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Friday.
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Pompeo warns 'unacceptably high level' of violence in Afghanistan threaten
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], December 5 (ANI/Sputnik): The negotiations process between the Afghan government and the Taliban will fail if the high level of violence continues, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday.
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WHO's Tedros says govt decisions made in coming days will determine course
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 5 (ANI/Sputnik): World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that decisions made by the governments and individuals in the coming days would be decisive.
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EU Commission chief congratulates Serbian PM on 2nd mandate
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen congratulated Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic on the start of her second term, during a teleconference on Friday.
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Austria begins mass testing for COVID-19 in Vienna
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): Mass testing of the population for coronavirus began in Vienna on Friday, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
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EU orders Italy to abolish corporate tax exemptions at ports to abide by s
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The European Commission has ordered Italy to remove the corporate tax exemptions currently in force at the country's ports in order to abide by the bloc's rules on state aid, according to a press release published on Friday.
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Baku to summon French ambassador over Karabakh resolution backed by French
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on Friday denounced the approval by the French lower house of the resolution on the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and said it would summon the French ambassador in Baku to express its stance on the matter to Paris
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