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Libya starts COVID-19 vaccination drive
Tripoli (Libya), April 18: The Director of the National Center for Disease Control of Libya, Dadr Addin Annajar, on Saturday...

Macron Says Anti-Russia Sanctions 'Not Sufficient,' Prefers Dialogue...
Moscow (Russia), April 18: French President Emmanuel Macron says relations with Russia need a two-pillar approach, with both dialogue and...

IAEA Confirms Iran Started Enriching Uranium Up to...
Vienna (Austria), April 18: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran started enriching uranium up to 60...

S. Korea to start vaccinations of care workers,...
Seoul (South Korea), April 18: South Korea will start giving AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers and airline crews...

N. Korea slams Japan despite Suga's willingness to...
Seoul (South Korea), April 18: North Korea's main newspaper on Sunday kept up criticism of Japan over its history of...

Israel reports 142 new COVID-19 cases, 836,882 in...
Jerusalem (Israel), April 18: Israel's Ministry of Health reported 142 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, raising the total number in...

Cuba registers highest number of daily COVID-19 deaths
Havana (Cuba), April 18: Cuba registered 1,026 cases and 12 deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily death toll since the...

Public confidence in vaccine rollout hurt by AstraZeneca...
Rome (Italy), April 18: The regional health commission in Italy's Lombardy said Saturday that public confidence in the country's use...

Chile reports first case of COVID-19 variant initially...
Santiago (Chile) Apr 16: Chile on Thursday reported its first case of COVID-19 variant that was first found in...

Africa's confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 4.38 mln: Africa...
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Apr 16: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,383,168 as of Thursday, the...

Iranian president says Iran "not looking for nuclear...
Tehran (Iran) Apr 16: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday dismissed concerns about Iran's plan to enrich uranium to 60-percent...

U.S. replaces Britain to be largest source of...
Dublin (Ireland) pr 16: The United States replaced Britain to be the largest source of Ireland's imported goods in the...

U.S. troop withdrawal to throw Afghanistan into chaos
Kabul (Afghanistan) Apr 16: U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan before...

UN rights experts express "deep regret" over Japan's...
Geneva (Switzerland) Apr 16: UN human rights experts on Thursday expressed their deep regret over Japan's decision to dump into...

Turkey says issues with Greece can be resolved...
Ankara (Turkey) Apr 16: Turkey believes that its issues with Greece can be resolved through constructive dialogue between the two...

China summons Japanese ambassador to lodge representations over...
Beijing (China) Apr 16: China's Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Jianghao Thursday summoned the Japanese ambassador to China Tarumi Hideo. Wu...

2nd LD-Writethru: China's surveyed urban unemployment rate drops...
Beijing (China) Apr 16: China's surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.3 percent in March, 0.6 percentage points lower than...

China's first mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to start Phase...
Beijing (China) Apr 16: China's first messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccine will start its Phase III clinical trial in May,...

Pakistani PM holds virtual summit with Uzbek president
Islamabad (Pakistan), April 15: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday exchanged views on bilateral, regional and international issues at...

South Sudan's army changes to delay graduation of...
Juba (South Sudan), April 15: The recent changes within the top leadership of the South Sudan army (SSPDF) by President...

Belgium to ease COVID-19 restrictions
Brussels (Belgium), April 15: Belgium will end on April 19 its ban on non-essential travel within the European Union (EU)....

US Committed to 'Assisting Ukraine With Its Self-Defense...
Washington (US), April 15: The United States is committed to assisting Ukraine with its defense needs, US Defense Secretary Lloyd...

New virus cases around 700 for 2nd day;...
Seoul (South Korea), April 15: South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases stayed around 700 on Thursday, as sporadic infections across...

S. Korea projected to win 9 gold medals,...
Seoul (South Korea), April 15: South Korea is projected to capture nine gold medals to finish 10th overall at the...

Egypt to use Cairo's int'l exhibition center for...
Cairo (Egypt), April 15: Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed said on Wednesday that the government is preparing the vast Cairo...

Iran's top leader insists U.S. lifts sanctions first...
Tehran (Iran), April 15: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday reiterated Tehran's position that U.S. sanctions must be...

NATO initiates full withdrawal from Afghanistan
Brussels (Belgium), April 15: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies on Wednesday agreed to pull out all of their armed...