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Singapore to resume tourism businesses in phased manner from July 1
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Singapore, June 28 (ANI): The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said on Sunday that tourism businesses in Singapore will be permitted to resume operations in a phased manner from July 1, beginning with 13 attractions, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Iceland president Gudni Johannesson reelected in landslide poll win
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Reykjavik [Iceland], June 28 (ANI): Iceland's President Gudni Johannesson secured a landslide victory with 91 per cent of the votes in presidential election on Sunday, seeing off a challenge from right-winger Gudmundur Franklin Jonsson, Xinhua reported citing local media sources.
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Brazil announces agreement with UK to produce COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Sao Paulo [Brazil], June 28 (Xinhua/ANI): The Brazilian Ministry of Health on Saturday announced an agreement with the United Kingdom to acquire technology to locally produce a vaccine against COVID-19, that is, currently being developed by the University of Oxford and British pharmaceutical
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Spain's top researchers discover coronavirus in waste water collected on M
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Barcelona [Spain], June 27 (Xinhua/ANI): Researchers at the University of Barcelona, one of Spain's most prestigious universities, had detected the presence of the novel coronavirus in waste water samples collected here on March 12, 2019, the university said in a statement on Friday.
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China's top lawmakers to meet again next week, may pass HK security law th
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 22 (ANI): In an urgent bid to pass national security legislation for Hong Kong even without a full draft being made public and fundamental aspects remaining unclear, China's top legislative body which held its bi-monthly meeting this past weekend, will regroup again nex
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IMF supports 70 nations with 25 billion dollars emergency financing amid C
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 20 (ANI): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) supported 70 countries with roughly about 25 billion dollars of emergency financing as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ripple across the globe, Xinhua news agency reported.
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7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand's coast
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand], June 19 (Xinhua/ANI): An earthquake measuring 7.4 magnitude on Richter scale struck the coast of Gisborne in the northeastern part of the country on Friday, according to New Zealand's geological hazard monitoring agency GeoNet.
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2 rockets hit Green Zone in Iraq's capital
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 11 (Xinhua/ANI): Two Katyusha rockets fired on Wednesday at the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad, said a source from the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
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China's inactivated COVID-19 vaccine shows potent protection against SARS-
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 9 (ANI): China's inactivated COVID-19 vaccine has shown protection against coronavirus infection in animal experiments, Xinhua reported citing a study published in the journal Cell.
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In a clean-chit to itself, China publishes white paper on COVID-19 fight
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 8 (ANI): China has issued a white paper on the country's battle against COVID-19, exonerating itself from the global allegations of delay in reporting the pandemic outbreak, Xinhua reported.
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Egypt's president offers initiative to end conflict in war-torn Libya as f
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], June 7 (Xinhua/ANI): Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Saturday that Libyan Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh and eastern-based military leader Khalifa Haftar have welcomed an initiative to end the military conflict in the neighboring war-torn Libya.
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Bolsonaro threatens to withdraw Brazil from WHO
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], June 6 (ANI): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday (local time) threatened to withdraw his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), Xinhua news agency reported.
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