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Police in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province kill 25 terrorists in past
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Logar [Afghanistan], September 23 (ANI/Sputnik): Twenty-five terrorists were killed and 18 others injured in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province over the past 24 hours in clashes with the police, the provincial police chief's spokesperson told Sputnik on Wednesday.
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Facebook warns may leave Europe if Ireland enforces ban on data sharing wi
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
California [US], September 23 (ANI/Sputnik): Facebook may have to pull out of Europe if the Irish Data Protection Commission enforces a ban on sharing data with the US after the European Court of Justice found that the bloc's measures to protect its data from US intelligence agencies were in
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Trump says full Supreme Court needed ahead of US election amid mail-in bal
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI/Sputnik): US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the Supreme Court needs to be filled with nine justices ahead of the November 3 election in light of the possibility of unsolicited mail-in ballots.
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Security services find rockets, launchers of IS in western Iraq
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], September 23 (ANI/Sputnik): The Iraqi security services have discovered five rockets and three launchers belonging to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in a building near the western city of Rutba, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
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Moscow's COVID-19 death toll rises by 16 to 5,100
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Moscow [Russia], September 23 (ANI/Sputnik): Moscow's COVID-19 death toll has risen by 16 over the past day to 5,100, the Russian capital's coronavirus response centre said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Ready to offer 'Sputnik V' COVID-19 vaccine to UN staff, offices free of c
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], September 23 (ANI): Russia is ready to offer its 'Sputnik V' COVID-19 vaccine free of charge for voluntary vaccination of the staff of United Nations (UN) and its offices and the country will soon hold a virtual conference for those nations keen in cooperation in the developme
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Vietnam jails 20 on terrorism charges over police station blast
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hanoi [Vietnam], September 23 (ANI/Sputnik): A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday sentenced 20 people to various prison terms on terrorism-related charges for their involvement in a police station bombing in 2018, media reported.
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US COVID-19 death toll surpasses 200,000
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The COVID-19 death toll in the United States has surpassed 200,000, while the number of recorded infections is nearing 7 million, with the country accounting for more than one in every five coronavirus fatalities worldwide, the latest data from Jo
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Johnson announces new COVID-19 restrictions for England, refrains from tot
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London [UK], September 22 (ANI/Sputnik): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday announced a set of new restrictions for England, citing the spike in the coronavirus hospitalisations.
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WHO reports highest weekly increment of nearly 2 million in COVID-19 cases
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a record number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus registered across the world over the past week -- almost 2 million infections -- which marks the highest number in a single week so far.
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Japan's Defense Ministry to request record USD 51.7 bn budget for fiscal y
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Tokyo [Japan], September 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The Japanese Defense Ministry intends to request another record budget of 5.4 trillion yen ($51.7 billion) for the fiscal year 2021, which begins on April 1 next year, the Kyodo news agency reported, citing military sources.
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US sentences UK national to 5 years in prison for role in hacking group
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Washington [US], September 22 (ANI/Sputnik): A US federal judge has sentenced a British national for his role in a hacking group that stole personal identifying information from companies and extorted them for ransoms.
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