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S. Korea's new COVID-19 cases fall below 130,000;...
Seoul (South Korea), August 20: South Korea's new COVID-19 cases fell below 130,000 Saturday, but the daily number of deaths...
S. Korean lawmakers leave for U.S. visit
Seoul (South Korea), August 20: A group of lawmakers from South Korea's rival parties departed for Washington, D.C., Saturday for...
Aid workers face increasingly dangerous situation: UN
Geneva (Switzerland), August 20: Aid workers around the world are working in increasingly dangerous and unstable situations and are being...
IAEA says consulting on sending mission to Zaporizhzhia...
Vienna (Austria), August 20: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday that it is actively consulting with all...
UN chief urges more in-depth examination of causes...
United Nations, August 20: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called on the international community to do more to examine...
NASA unveils landing sites for manned Moon mission
Los Angeles (US), August 20: NASA announced Friday that it has selected 13 possible regions at the South Pole of...
Philippine president to visit Indonesia, Singapore in first...
Manila (Philippine), August 20: Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos is scheduled to visit Indonesia and Singapore next month in his...
Monkeypox test kit unveiled in India
New Delhi [India], August 20: India's first indigenously developed RT-PCR kit for testing Monkeypox was launched in the southern state...
Canada approves 1st COVID-19 booster for kids 5-11
Ottawa (Canada), August 20: Canada's drug regulator announced Friday it has authorized Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine for use as a...
COVID-19 infection risk in Germany remains high despite...
Berlin (Germany), August 20: The number of daily COVID-19 infections in Germany continues to fall, but the infection risk remains...
U.S. admits COVID-19 response mistakes, but repeats them...
New York (US), August 20: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky has conceded that...
Denmark opens Rwanda office as part of new...
Copenhagen (Denmark), August 19: The Danish government announced on Thursday the opening of a project office in Rwanda's capital Kigali,...
Ukrainian, Turkish presidents meet on cooperation, grain exports
Kiev [Ukraine], August 19: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday met with visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss...
Top German court upholds mandatory measles vaccination for...
Berlin [Germany], August 19: Germany's compulsory measles vaccination for children in day-care centers and schools will remain in force, the...
Drought threatens Romania's agricultural production
Bucharest [Romania], August 19: Persisting drought threatens to reduce agricultural production in most of Romania's counties this year as...
Italy's COVID-19 infections rise again
Rome [Italy], August 19: Italy's coronavirus infection rate is on the rise again, reversing a month of declines to climb...
U.S. CDC acknowledges falling short in response to...
Los Angeles [US], August 19: The chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday acknowledged...
Oil prices rally for second day
New York [US], August 19: Oil prices rose on Thursday, extending the gains they had scored in the prior session.
U.S. San Francisco faces surging hate crimes against...
San Francisco [US], August 19: Officials and Asian communities in San Francisco, in the western U.S. state of California, addressed...
Canada's wheat price falls 20 pct in July
Ottawa [Canada], August 19: The price of wheat in Canada fell 20.4 percent in July, Statistics Canada said Thursday.
2 planes collide in U.S. airport, multiple fatalities...
San Francisco [US], August 19: Multiple people have been reportedly killed after two planes collided while attempting to land in...
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran agree to simplify international freight...
Tashkent [Uzbekistan], August 19: Uzbekistan has agreed with Iran and Turkmenistan to simplify the regime of international freight traffic to...
Japan logs record high 255,534 daily COVID-19 cases
Tokyo [Japan], August 19: Japan logged a record daily high of 255,534 new COVID-19 cases Thursday as the country feared...
Cambodia to host 54th ASEAN economic ministers' meeting,...
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], August 19: Cambodia will host the 54th ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Economic Ministers'...
Philippines logs 3,758 new COVID-19 cases, 48 deaths
Manila [Philippines], August 19: The Philippines reported 3,758 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in...
Myanmar reports 31 new COVID-19 cases
Yangon [Myanmar], August 19: Myanmar confirmed 31 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to...
CPEC brings era of green development to Pakistan...
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 19: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has brought an era of green development through green projects for...