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Venezuela surpasses 1 mln barrels of crude produced...
Caracas (Venezuela), December 26: State-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) exceeded one million barrels of crude produced per day...

Israel reports 591 new Omicron cases, 1,118 in...
Jerusalem (Israel), December 26: Israel on Saturday reported 591 new cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, according to the country's...

Egyptian, Russian leaders agree to intensify efforts to...
Cairo (Egypt), December 26: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed Saturday the importance of intensifying joint...

Omicron's spread deepens U.S. travel woes: media
New York (US), December 26: Airlines continued to scrub flights on Friday as COVID-19 infections hit pilots and flight attendants,...

Putin assures Vucic of sufficient gas supplies to...
Moscow (Russia), December 26: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic discussed the deliveries of Russian natural gas...

Iraq calls for public adherence to health precautions...
Baghdad (Iraq), December 25: The Iraqi Ministry of Health on Friday urged citizens to adhere to the health precautionary...

Death toll from Malaysia's floods rises to 41
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), December 25: The number of people who died in the massive floods in Malaysia has risen...

U.S. to lift travel bans on 8 southern...
Washington (US), December 25: The United States will lift COVID-related travel restrictions on eight southern African countries on Dec....

British writer says U.S. cannot outcompete with China
Moscow (Russia), December 25: U.S. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin's opposition to President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act exposed "deep...

Germany's health system struggling to trace COVID-19 infection...
Berlin (Germany), December 25: A large proportion of public health departments in Germany already stopped contact tracing for people infected...

Pentagon's Pacific Deterrence Initiative doomed to fail: former...
Moscow (Russia), December 25: The Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI), the Pentagon's program to counter China, is doomed to fail before...

Singapore reports 265 new COVID-19 cases
Singapore (Singapore), December 25: Singapore reported 265 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total tally in the country...

Thailand records 1st cluster of Omicron variant of...
Bangkok (Thailand), December 25: Thailand reported its first cluster of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the northeastern Kalasin province,...

Indonesia reports 204 new COVID-19 cases, 5 more...
Jakarta (Indonesia), December 25: Indonesia confirmed 204 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total...

Myanmar reports 213 new COVID-19 cases
Yangon (Myanmar), December 25: The number of COVID-19 infections has risen to 529,327 in Myanmar after 213 new cases...

Singapore's manufacturing output grows 14.6 pct on year...
Singapore (Singapore), December 25: The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) said Friday that the country's manufacturing output increased by 14.6...

Samsung stays put as omicron scares away big-name...
Seoul (South Korea), December 24: Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday that it still plans to participate in the Consumer Electronics...

Putin opposes NATO's eastwards expansion
Moscow (Russia), December 24: Eastwards expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is unacceptable, and there should be security...

New COVID-19 cases fall below 7,000 for 2nd...
Seoul (South Korea), December 24: South Korea's new coronavirus cases fell below 7,000 on Friday for the second day in...

Peru warns of fast increase in Omicron cases
Lima (Peru), December 24: Peru has warned of a fast increase in COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant after...

UN official voices grave concern over alleged sexual...
United Nations, December 24: A UN official on Thursday voiced grave concern over alleged acts of sexual violence by the...

Elections must take place in Libya in appropriate...
United nations, December 24: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday took note of the delay in elections in Libya and...

Canada's Quebec reports record 9,397 new COVID-19 cases
Ottawa (Canada), December 24: Canada's Quebec province once again recorded the highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases with 9,397 new...

U.S. Fed's inflation measure hits 39-year high in...
Washington (US), December 24: A key inflation measure closely watched by the U.S. Federal Reserve rose at the fastest pace...

Trump appeals to Supreme Court seeking to keep...
Washington (US), December 24: Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday appealed to the Supreme Court, asking it to stop...

S.Korean president pardons ex-president Park Geun-hye
Seoul (South Korea), December 24: South Korean President Moon Jae-in has decided to pardon former President Park Geun-hye, who has...

4 injured at ExxonMobil plant fire in U.S....
Houston (US), December 24: Four people were injured on Thursday morning at ExxonMobil Baytown Olefins Plant in south central U.S....