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South Korea reports 25,125 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], May 20 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 25,125 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Thursday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 17,914,957, the health authorities said Friday.
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Wildfires near Ukraine's Chernobyl plant pose no radioactive threat: IAEA
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], May 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Wildfires near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant do not pose a radioactive threat, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Thursday.
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Israel doctors go on strike over violence in hospital
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], May 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Israel's hospital doctors launched a 24-hour warning strike on Thursday morning, said the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), which represents about 95 percent of the doctors in the country.
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7.3 magnitude quake hits Macquarie Island region
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Sydney [Australia], May 19 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 jolted the Macquarie Island region at 1013 GMT on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
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Rwanda boosts COVID-19 economic recovery fund with 250 mln USD
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kigali [Rwanda], May 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Rwanda has announced an additional 250 million US dollars for the Economic Recovery Fund as part of the country's efforts to support the recovery of businesses severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Azerbaijan, Lithuania sign pact to boost bilateral relations
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Baku [Azerbaijan], May 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Azerbaijan and Lithuania on Wednesday inked a pact aimed at enhancing bilateral relations in a number of areas.
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World Bank, UN grant 10 million USD to mitigate impacts of Beirut port bla
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], May 15 (ANI/Xinhua): A new 10 million U.S. dollars grant will help Lebanon mitigate the environmental and health impacts of the Beirut port explosions on the neighboring population and support Beirut's reconstruction, the United Nations said in a statement on Wednesday.
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19 plantation workers abducted in Cameroon
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Yaounde [Cameroon], May 18 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 19 plantation workers have been kidnapped in Cameroon's restive Anglophone region of Southwest, according to security and local sources.
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Ukrainian president proposes extending martial law, general mobilization
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine], May 18 (ANI/Xinhua): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed to the parliament to extend the current martial law and general mobilization in the country, the state-run Ukrinform news agency reported Wednesday.
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UK inflation rate hits 40-year high as energy bill soars
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 18 (ANI/Xinhua): Britain's Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 9.0 per cent in the 12 months to April 2022, the highest level since 1982, the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Wednesday.
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Bus falls into river ditch in China's Chongqing
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 18 (ANI): A bus fell into a river ditch China's Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday, Xinhua News Agency reported citing authorities.
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Death toll in Nigeria's gas explosion rises to nine: official
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Lagos [Nigeria], May 18 (ANI/Xinhua): A rescue official has confirmed that nine people died and 10 others were injured in a gas explosion that occurred in the early morning of Tuesday in Nigeria's northwest state of Kano.
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