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Iran reports lowest unemployment rate in 25 years at 8.9%
Jan 06, 2022 02:56Iran’s unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest point in the past 25 years mainly because the country’s economically active population has shrunk because of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the Iranian government's statistics agency.
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Charity warns 6m UK homes may be unable to pay energy bills after price hike
Jan 05, 2022 12:29Around 4 million homes in the UK were already classed as fuel poor before a surge in global energy market prices triggered one of the steepest ever energy bill hikes in October, but campaigners are braced for a record increase in the numbers unable to pay their energy bills following another hike this spring.
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Japan’s Okinawa considers COVID emergency amid virus spread from US base
Jan 05, 2022 10:16Japan is considering declaring a state of emergency in the southern island of Okinawa, after the region emerged as the epicenter of a new coronavirus surge, with officials saying the virus keeps spreading from US bases.
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US snowstorm strands drivers for 24 hours or more
Jan 05, 2022 08:51The snow storm is over but the travel misery lingered: drivers on a major highway outside Washington reported Tuesday they were stuck in their cars in freezing weather for 24 hours or more.
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Backlash after Macron says his COVID strategy aims to ‘annoy’ the unvaccinated
Jan 05, 2022 04:44French President Emmanuel Macron has generated major furor after insisting his government’s COVID vaccination strategy was aimed at “annoying” the unvaccinated and ardently making life harder for them.
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US sets grim COVID record with 1 million daily cases
Jan 05, 2022 04:26The United States has set a grim coronavirus record, with more than 1 million cases diagnosed in a day as the highly transmissible Omicron variant is wreaking havoc across the country.
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Iranian university develops test kit for COVID-19 Omicron variant
Jan 05, 2022 02:57Researchers in an Iranian medical school have developed a first home-grown test kit for detecting the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
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Japan irked at US military's failure to contain spread of Omicron variant
Jan 04, 2022 13:06The top government officials in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture have blasted the US military for failing to contain the COVID-19 outbreak at its bases in the country and allowing the Omicron variant to spill over to the local population.
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Violence flares at pandemic protests in Germany
Jan 04, 2022 11:09Police in Germany have reported sporadic violence at demonstrations against the country’s pandemic restrictions, with one protester in the eastern town of Lichtenstein biting an officer and another attempting to steal a service weapon.
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Iran COVID updates: Coronavirus cases exceed 6.2 million
Jan 04, 2022 11:00The total number of people infected with the coronavirus in Iran surpassed 6,200,000 on Tuesday, while more than 6.04 million patients have recovered across the country.