India and the United States (US) are working on a plan to create a travel corridor which will significantly ease travel restrictions between the two countries. This will be the first green corridor India will establish with any country. Besides the US, similar initiatives are being tried with select European countries as well. Senior officials from New Delhi and Washington…
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Asserting that China and India are ‘important neighbors to each other’, Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said maintaining peace and tranquility along the Sino-India border is in the common interests of both the parties and requires joint efforts. In separate statements, the Chinese foreign and the defence ministries, however, repeated Beijing’s stand that India was responsible for the June 15…
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said that he was proud that a contingent of the Indian Armed Forces was participating in the 75th Anniversary of Victory Day Parade in Moscow. Singh arrived here on a three-day visit on Tuesday at the invitation of the Russian Ministry of Defence to attend the 75th Anniversary of Victory Day Parade. “Attending the…
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The total US coronavirus cases surpassed 2 million on Wednesday.The Johns Hopkins virus dashboard counted more than 27,000 new cases Wednesday, a day that saw almost 1,000 U.S. deaths. More than 113,000 Americans have died since the virus emerged here a few months ago.As of Thursday, the United States had least 2,001,609 cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, with…
View More AMERICA SURPASSES 2 MILLION CORONAVIRUS CASES: DEATHS AT 113,000
US troop pullout makes Europe rethink about American dependence The Trump administration is withdrawing troops from Germany while proactively establishing defense systems in Eastern Europe. This has created more divisions in Europe. A senior US official said on Friday that US President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to remove 9,500 soldiers from Germany. As close partners in the…
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe could face a surge of COVID-19 infections in the coming weeks caused by mass protests in the continent over the last days, politicians, European Union officials and experts said on Thursday. Tens of thousands of protesters have crowded together in Europe’s big cities in recent days to demonstrate against racism after the killing in the United…
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Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 8,987 in the past day, reaching 511,423, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Friday. According to the crisis center, the daily growth was 1.8% like a day earlier. New 1,714 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Moscow, 730 in the Moscow Region, 320 in the Sverdlovsk Region, 274 in St. Petersburg and 227 in the Voronezh…
View More Russia’s coronavirus cases exceed 511,000: But it’s easing lockdown fast
Five days ago, Russia suffered its worst oil spill in modern history after a fuel storage tank owned by Russian nickel and palladium mining company, Nornickel, collapsed and spilled 21,000 tonnes (about 158,000 barrels) of diesel into the nearby Ambarnaya river outside the Siberian city of Norilsk. The accident–which has drawn comparisons to the Exxon Valdez accident off Alaska in 1989– is being…
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BRUSSELS — For decades, even when the 2008 financial crisis threatened to blow the bloc apart, the European Union’s wealthier nations resisted the notion of collective debt. But the coronavirus has so fundamentally damaged the bloc’s economy that it is now forcing European leaders to consider the sort of unified and sweeping response once thought unworkable. The European Commission, the…
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PARIS As parks and public spaces opened across France on Saturday, different figures related to the novel coronavirus rose and fell. The latest statistics were reported by France’s Ministry of Health. A total of 57 fatalities were registered in hospitals on Saturday, a drop by six cases compared to Friday’s figures. The total number of fatalities in hospitals overall has…
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