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Argentina says COVID-19 vaccines must become "global public...
Buenos Aires (Argentina), April 18: Argentinean Foreign Minister Felipe Sola asked the United Nations (UN) that vaccines against COVID-19 be...

UNICEF launches radio campaign in NE Nigeria to...
Lagos (Nigeria), April 18: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has launched a school radio clubs program in Nigeria to...

New virus cases in 600s for 3rd day...
Seoul (South Korea), April 18: South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases stayed in the 600s for the third consecutive day...

Russia Could Leave PACE in Light of Recent...
Moscow (Russia), April 18: Russia could soon withdraw from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) amid the...

Brazil registers over 370,000 deaths from COVID-19
Rio De Janerio (Brazil), April 18: Brazil's COVID-19 death toll on Saturday reached 371,678 after registering another 2,929 fatalities, the...

Chile reports 7,696 new cases of COVID-19
Santiago (Chile), April 18: Chile's Ministry of Health reported on Saturday 7,696 new cases of COVID-19 and 132 more deaths...

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...

US Not Planning to Expand Training Programs in...
Washington (US), April 18: The United States European Command (USEUCOM) does not plan to provide any additional training to Ukraine's...

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,...

Brazil's COVID-19 death toll tops 360,000
Sao Paulo (Brazil), April 15: Brazil's COVID-19 death toll has risen to 361,884 after 3,459 new deaths were reported in...

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...