India has reported its first monkeypox case as the World Health Organization (WHO) plans to convene an emergency meeting over the global outbreak next week. The patient is a 35-year-old man who had returned from the UAE to the southern Indian state of Kerala on July 12, Veena George, the …
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Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been rushed to the hospital after apparently being shot while giving an address, local media reports said, noting that bystanders heard two loud bangs before Abe collapsed. Abe fell to the ground during a speech in the city of Nara on Friday and was …
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The White House will announce on Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will drop its requirement that air passengers entering the US test negative for Covid-19, multiple American news outlets report. While the airline industry has lobbied aggressively for this move, the Biden administration says that …
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The US Navy’s Naval Air Facility El Centro has confirmed it is aware of reports that yet another US military aircraft has crashed on Thursday, about 35 miles north of Yuma, Arizona. The incident comes just one day after five Marines were killed in an MV-22 Osprey crash around the same area, in …
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Paris Saint Germain forward Kylian Mbappe’s transfer saga is finally over after the Frenchman made a final decision on his future according to reports. Mbappe was set to become a free agent on June 30 and has been heavily linked with a move to Real Madrid. Earlier this week, ESPN …
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An Israeli man in his 30s has been hospitalized in Tel Aviv with the country’s first suspected case of the monkeypox virus. He had visited Western Europe, where dozens of cases of the rare disease have recently been diagnosed. The Israeli Health Ministry confirmed on Thursday that it was taking …
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Germany plans to ditch Russian oil imports by the end of the year, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the issue. The measure will apparently be adopted whether or not the EU reaches a consensus on a Russian oil embargo. The German Chancellor’s Office is now …
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A sixth round of Ukraine-related anti-Russia sanctions is unlikely to include an oil embargo, several media outlets reported citing sources within the EU government. According to Bloomberg, EU countries are still striving to agree on the sanctions package in full, and some member states believe that the decision on Russian …
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The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria has reported new attacks from drones near its border with Ukraine following a string of mysterious incidents described by the self-proclaimed republic as acts of “terror.” According to the Transnistrian Interior Ministry, on Friday evening four explosions occurred in the vicinity of a former …
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Reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to formally declare war on Ukraine and launch a full mobilization of forces as early as Monday are not true, the speaker of Russia’s parliament has insisted. Earlier this week, unnamed US and Western officials told CNN that Putin was going to use “the symbolic …
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