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WHO data showed the highest number of new daily COVID-19 cases ever recorded came on June 28, when over 189,500 new cases were registered worldwide
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17.08.2024
Over 160,000 coronavirus cases reported every day in past week, a record: WHO
Lazarus Chakwera, seen here campaigning in June 2019, was elected president of Malawi after a rare do-over election
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17.08.2024
US encouraged by Malawi election
Earlier this month, France denounced an 'extremely aggressive' intervention by Turkish ships against a French navy vessel participating in the NATO mission there, a claimed dismissed by Ankara
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17.08.2024
France pulls out of NATO Med operation over Turkey tensions
Remdesivir is an experimental medication produced by the US laboratory Gilead Sciences
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17.08.2024
British and German remdesivir stocks 'sufficient' as US buys up supply
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The UN Security Council, which after three months of difficult negotiations has approved a resolution call for a pause in conflicts to allow humanitarian action to stem the coronavirus pandemic
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UN adopts resolution calling for pandemic-related halt to conflicts
Pfizer, whose Manhattan headquarters is seen here, is among the companies in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine
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BioNTech, Pfizer report progress in coronavirus vaccine trial
Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, seen here at George Bush's funeral in 2018, said his country needed to revise its ties with China
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Ex-Canada PM Mulroney calls for revised relations with China
The United States has urged Turkey not to change the status of the Hagia Sophia, a church turned mosque turned museum
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Pompeo urges Turkey not to convert Hagia Sophia into mosque
A woman wearing a face mask and gloves against the spread of coronavirus goes to cast her ballot on constitutional reforms which could see President Putin stay in power until 2036
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Lured by prize draws, Russians cast votes on Putin reforms
Map of Ethiopia and its regions
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Ethiopian opposition politician held as protests continue
Britain announced plans to ease citizenship for Hong Kongers after China made its first arrests under a controversial new security law
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UK offers Hong Kongers citizenship in response to China
As the site reopens following Coronavirus lockdown, visitors to Auschwitz contemplate the entrance gate with its inscription "Work sets you free"
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Auschwitz museum reopens to visitors after lockdown
A Long March rocket lifts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang in China's southwestern Sichuan province in June 2020
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China eyes July 20-25 launch for Mars rover
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