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EU launches legal proceedings against UK over Irish border

The EU launched two legal proceedings against Britain on Monday, alleging that London had broken a protocol of its Brexit divorce agreement covering Ireland."The EU and the UK agreed the protocol tog

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Nearly 65 million people vaccinated in China: NHC

Almost 65 million people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of March 14, said Li Bin, deputy director of the National Health Commission (NHC), at a press conference on Monday.

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Armenia to hold military drills March 16-20

Armenia's defense ministry on Friday said military exercises involving 7,500 troops would be held in the country March 16-20, the RIA news agency reported.The ministry said the exercise aims to test

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Ghana targets 5 pct GDP growth in 2021: budget statement

A street in Accra, Ghana's capital city. /VCG Ghana targets to grow its economy at five percent by the end of 2021, said Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the acting finance minister here on Friday.Pres

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Assembly speaker okays 'impeachment' probe into Cuomo allegations

New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said on Thursday that he has authorized the Assembly Judiciary Committee to start an "impeachment investigation" into sexual misconduct allegations agains

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Armenian PM says army chief of staff considered dismissed

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday that Chief of General Staff Onik Gasparyan is considered dismissed, according to the Ministry of Defense of Armenia.It came as Armenian Presi

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S. Korea agrees to 13.9% increase in its share of cost for U.S. troops

South Korea has agreed to a 13.9 percent increase in its contribution to the cost of hosting some 28,500 U.S. troops for 2021, the biggest annual rise in nearly two decades, its foreign ministry said

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Mexico to buy 22 million doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

Mexico will buy 22 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China's Sinovac and Sinopharm, its Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday.Ebrard said the country will buy 10 million more doses of

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Ukraine approves China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine: ministry

Ukraine has approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac, Ukraine's health ministry said on Tuesday.Ukrainian pharmaceutical company Lekhim sought approval for the Sinovac's vaccine las

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IAEA says Iran enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges

TheInternational Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) said that Iran has begun enriching uranium with a third cascade of advanced IR-2M centrifuge machines at Natanz nuclear site, local media reported on Tuesd

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High-rise building catches fire in north China

A fire broke out in a 26-floor building at 11.00 a.m. Tuesday in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province.The fire started from the first floor and nearby

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Exclusive interview: IPC president optimistic on the games next year

02:47 March 4 marks the one-year countdown to the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. Andrew Parsons, president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) received an exclusive

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Biden accepts Tanden's request to withdraw her nomination

U.S. President Joe Biden accepted Neera Tanden's request to withdraw her nomination to head the Office of Management and Budget, the White House said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Sierra Leonean president receives China-donated COVID-19 vaccines

Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio on Monday received a batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China on Thursday.Expressing appreciation to the Chinese government, Bio said China is the first c

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Morocco suspends contact, cooperation with German embassy

Morocco has told government departments to cease cooperation and contacts with Germany's embassy in the North African kingdom, a senior Moroccan diplomat said on Monday.A foreign ministry document, s

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Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou appears in court in Canada

00:39 Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou appears in court in Canada. Her lawyer said the Canada's arrest of Meng is an abuse of process, arguing that it is a politically motivated decision, an

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China-donated COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Iraq

A total of 50,000 doses of Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government arrived in Iraq on Tuesday.The Iraqi health ministry said the vaccines will be given to people in all provin