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COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Papua New Guinea
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Port Moresby [Papua New Guinea], March 15 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of COVID-19 cases in Papua New Guinea (PNG) stood at well over 2,000 on Monday as officials sought a solution to the recent steep rise.
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France records 26,343 coronavirus infections in past 24 hours
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Paris [France], March 15 (ANI/Xinhua): France registered 26,343 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours while coronavirus-linked hospitalizations went up again, according to data released by the health authorities on Sunday.
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Indonesia reports 4,714 new COVID-19 cases, 97 new deaths
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], March 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Indonesia's Health Ministry on Sunday reported 4,714 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the country's total tally to 1,419,455.
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Oman reports 1,610 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Muscat [Oman], March 14 (ANI/Xinhua): The Omani health ministry on Sunday announced 1,610 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the sultanate to 146,867, the official Oman News Agency reported.
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5-magnitude earthquake hits Faryab in Iran
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Mar 14 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake of magnitude five on the richter scale hit Faryab in Iran's southern Kerman Province at 16:24 local time (1254 GMT) on Sunday, according to Iran's Seismological Center.
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Brazil reports fresh 76,178 cases of COVID-19, 1,997 deaths
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Sao Paulo [Brazil], March 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil reported 76,178 new COVID-19 cases with 1,997 deaths over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Sunday.
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Malaysia reports 1,354 new COVID-19 cases, four more deaths
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Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], March 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 1,354 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the national total to 323,763, the country's health ministry informed on Sunday.
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Philippines logs 4,899 new COVID-19 cases, total tops 621,000
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Manila [Phlippines], March 14 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 4,899 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 621,498.
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Xi's dream project 'Belt Road Initiative' in trouble amid China's shrinkin
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 14 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping's dream of setting a new world order has come crashing down after the Covid-19 slowed down the Belt Road Initiative (BRI), pushing it towards becoming financial inviable, reported the Kabul Times.
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Uzbekistan to end mandatory COVID-19 testing at border checkpoints
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Tashkent [Uzbekistan], March 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Starting from Monday, Uzbekistan will no longer mandatorily test travellers for COVID-19 at airports, train stations and other border checkpoints, local authorities said Sunday.
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Once oppressed, Xinjiang's Uyghur women take on Chinese government
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 14 (ANI): Uyghur women have found themselves the targets of some of Beijing's cruellest tactics - featuring forced sterilisations and intrauterine devices (IUD) implantations--meant to slash birth rates, which dropped 24 per cent in 2019 in Xinjiang compared with 4.2 p
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Ethiopia rejects US allegations of ethnic cleansing in Tigray
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], March 14 (ANI/Xinhua): The Ethiopian government on Saturday rejected US allegations of ethnic cleansing in the northern Tigray regional state as "completely unfounded."
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