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Goa schools to reopen for offline classes from Monday
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], February 17 (ANI): Goa government on Thursday announced the reopening of physical classes for students of classes I to XII from Monday as the COVID-19 cases have come down.
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Putin, Japanese PM discuss security talks, Ukraine over phone
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], February 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held a phone conversation on Thursday to discuss the security talks between Russia and the West as well as the Ukrainian crisis.
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Iran's nuclear negotiator says deal 'closer than ever'
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], February 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani said Wednesday that Iran and relevant countries are "closer than ever" to reaching an agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal at the ongoing Vienna talks.
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World Bank 'funding campaign of repression' in Xinjiang, says report
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 17 (ANI): A new report by a Washington based think tank has accused the World Bank of "funding a campaign of repression" of Uygurs and other Muslim minorities in China's Xinjiang province.
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9 killed in building collapse in Tehran
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], February 17 (ANI/Xinhua): At least nine people were killed in a building collapse in the southwestern district of Iran's capital Tehran, according to local media.
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Israeli PM backs lifting COVID-19 restrictions
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], February 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday backed lifting COVID-19 restrictions due to the recent decline in daily COVID-19 cases in the country.
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Taiwan reports 68 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], February 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Taiwan reported 68 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, 14 of which were locally-transmitted confirmed cases, while the other 54 were imported, the island's disease-monitoring agency said.
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Very hard on Shreyas Iyer on not making it to playing XI, says Rohit Sharm
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 17 (ANI): India white-ball skipper Rohit Sharma has admitted that it was very hard on Shreyas Iyer on not making it to India's playing XI in the first T20I against West Indies.
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Zero-Covid strategy fails in Hong Kong amid Omicron wave
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Hong Kong, February 17 (ANI): In the face of the latest Omicron wave, the zero-Covid strategy of Hong Kong has failed as daily infections top 4,000, the previous fail-safe systems have begun to buckle under the strain of their own uncompromising rules.
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Chile declares state of emergency in north due to migratory crisis
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Santiago [Chile], February 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Wednesday declared a constitutional state of emergency in four northern provinces, granting special powers to the Armed Forces to control irregular migration along the border.
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Gunmen attack kills 5 soldiers in Yemeni oil field
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Aden [Yemen], February 17 (ANI/Xinhua): At least five Yemeni government soldiers were killed Wednesday in an attack launched by unknown gunmen against an oil field in the country's oil-rich province of Marib, a security official told Xinhua.
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Webinar on 'Tibet Was Never a Part of China' urges global communities to s
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): An international webinar "Tibet Was Never a Part of China", organized on February 14 to mark the 109th anniversary of 'Proclamation of Independence of Tibet' on 13th February 1913, urged the global community to support Tibet's independence from China'
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