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Spain rescues 58 migrants at sea near Canary Islands
Sep 02, 2020 11:10A Spanish coast guard boat brought 58 migrants to the port of Arguineguin in the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Wednesday, after rescuing them from three dinghies in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Denmark’s pharmaceutical giant opens insulin production line in Iran
Sep 02, 2020 01:08The world’s top maker of diabetes drugs Novo Nordisk of Denmark has opened a production line in Iran, with Health Minister Sa'eed Namaki saying he hoped it would soon become a drug distribution and production center in West Asia.
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Russia: US war games in Estonia ‘provocative, extremely dangerous’
Sep 01, 2020 12:29Russia says live-fire exercises by the United States in Estonia, near Russia’s western borders, are “provocative” and “extremely dangerous” as they would escalate tensions in Europe.
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Imam Hussein, martyred for justice
Aug 30, 2020 05:57Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shias' Imam, and his 72 companions were martyred in the Battle of Karbala in southern Iraq in 680 AD after fighting courageously for justice against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid I.
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Latin America passes 250K COVID-19 death toll amid warning of poverty surge
Aug 21, 2020 07:32The number of coronavirus fatalities across Latin America has surpassed the 250,000 mark as the pandemic continues to overwhelm the region that has become the world’s worst-hit so far.
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New Zealand’s prime minister postpones general elections
Aug 17, 2020 10:55New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has postponed the country’s general elections by a month under pressure from the opposition, which said the current coronavirus lockdown in the largest city of Auckland would work to their disadvantage.
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COVID-19 cases surpass 21 million; France, South Korea see resurgence
Aug 16, 2020 07:24The new coronavirus has so far infected 21,468,279 people and claimed the lives of at least 771,181 others across the world since it first emerged late last year, according to figures released by the Johns Hopkins University.
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US says won't lift tariffs on Airbus aircraft, European products
Aug 13, 2020 06:10The United States says it would not lift nor raise 15% tariffs on Airbus aircraft and 25% tariffs on other European goods in spite of moves by the European Union to settle a 16-year-old dispute over aircraft subsidies.
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Iran rejects ‘fabricated news’ on partial removal of the illegal sanctions
Aug 11, 2020 12:15Iran has dismissed as “news fabrication” recent media claims about a European initiative that calls for a temporary removal of the illegal US “non-targeted” sanctions on Tehran.
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Global COVID-19 cases top 18.3 million, over 694,000 dead
Aug 04, 2020 06:42More than 18.3 million people have so far tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, and over 694,000 others have lost their lives to the illness across the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data.