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Ecuador registers 2,550 COVID-19 cases in one day
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Quito [Ecuador], April 23 (ANI/Xinhua): Ecuador's ministry of health reported on Thursday 2,550 new COVID-19 cases and 120 more deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the tally to 365,393 cases and 12,915 deaths.
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US needs Japan to counter China's ascension: Report
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 23 (ANI): US needs its allies, and most importantly Japan, to counter China's ascension, according to an article published in Nikkei Asia.
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China was trying to 'neutralise human rights criticisms, not carbon' durin
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 22 (ANI): As leaders from around the world -- from US President Joe Biden to French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- called for global cooperation to tackle the climate crisis, China used the Leaders Summit on Climate to neutralise the wide
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UK declares China's crackdown on Uyghurs as 'genocide'
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 22 (ANI): Lawmakers in the United Kingdom have unanimously declared China's ongoing crackdown in Xinjiang a "genocide", joining the United States, Canada and the Netherlands in condemning Beijing's actions against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far-west region.
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Car explosion kills one, injures another in Uzbekistan
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tashkent [Uzbekistan], April 22 (ANI/Xinhua): A compressed methane gas tank installed in a car has exploded, killing a man and injuring another at a gas station in southern Uzbekistan's Qashqadaryo Region, the Uzbek Emergency Ministry said on Thursday.
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Ethiopia records 1,329 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], April 22 (ANI/Xinhua): Ethiopia registered 1,329 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 246,484 as of Wednesday evening, the country's Ministry of Health said.
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At least 4 soldiers killed in Burkina Faso ambush
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Ouagadougou [Burkina Faso], April 22 (ANI/Xinhua): At least four soldiers lost their lives and two others were injured in an attack by gunmen on Wednesday in north-central Burkina Faso, security sources told Xinhua.
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Yemen's Houthis claim fresh drone attack at Saudi airbase
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Sana'a [Yemen], April 22 (ANI/Xinhua): Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed they hit a military target in the King Khalid Airbase in Saudi Arabia's southwestern city of Khamis Mushait with a bomb-laden drone before dawn on Thursday.
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Fearing 'extremist' tag, Xinjiang's Uyghurs not fasting in Ramzan
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 22 (ANI): After three years of ban on fasting during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Uyghur Muslims from Xinjiang refrain fasting during Ramadan despite easing of restrictions this year, due to lingering fear of
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Argentina's COVID-19 death toll tops 60,000
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], April 22 (ANI/Xinhua): Argentina's pandemic death toll surpassed 60,000 on Wednesday after 291 more people died of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the last 24 hours, as health authorities warned the country is facing "the worst moment of the pandemic."
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South Korea reports 735 more COVID-19 cases, 116,661 in total
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], April 22 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 735 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 116,661.
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5.5-magnitude quake hits 80 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Santiago [Chile], April 22 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake of magnitude of 5.5 jolted 80 km west-southwest of San Antonio, Chile at 0017 GMT on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
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