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- Tajikistan (42)
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- Vietnam (614)
Kremlin brands Ukraine unfriendly state, ‘a project of Western countries’
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World’s Covid cases fall to slowest pace since October
Medical workers transfer a coronavirus patient from an ambulance to a hospital in Lviv, Ukraine last month. (AP pic)NEW YORK: Almost a year after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic, there are some encouraging signs as new global infections fall sharply. Fresh Covid-19 cases for the week ended Feb 14 were the lowest...
Azerbaijani Migration Service talks documents required for visiting some countries
The list of documents that will be required from citizens flying from Azerbaijan to Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Georgia has been determined, Head of the Azerbaijani State Migration Service Vusal Huseynov said, Trend reports on Feb. 17 referring to the State Migration Service. …read more Source::...
Kyrgyzstan: Following protests, authorities mull reopening Matraimov probe
BISHKEK (TCA) — One day after hundreds protested in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security said a probe into former deputy chief of the Customs Service Raimbek Matraimov could be reopened, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported. In its February 15 statement, the State Committee said the criminal case against Matraimov,...
Biden now has the space to pressure Putin
Eli Lake President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party spent the last four years warning that former president Donald Trump was compromised by Russia. Now the Biden administration has cut a deal with Moscow more favorable to Russia than the one the outgoing Trump team was trying to negotiate: Last month it extended for five years a major arms...
557 air passengers arrive in Kazakhstan without COVID-19 tests
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM – 17 international flights from Great Britain, Germany, Maldives, Sri Lanka, the UAE, Egypt, Turkey, Russia, and Ukraine landed in Kazakhstan on February 14, 2021, Kazinform cites the Telegram channel of the Interdepartmental Commission on preventing the spread of COVID-19. …read more Source::...
Kyrgyz athlete wins silver at Ukraine Open Championship
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Jessica Pegula makes her way into 1st Slam quarterfinal
Monitoring Desk MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jessica Pegula’s first victory over a Top 10 opponent earned the 25-year-old American her first trip to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament. The 61st-ranked Pegula, whose parents own Buffalo’s NFL and NHL franchises, held on to beat No. 5 seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6-4, 3-6,...
US Senate acquits Trump as Republicans save him in impeachment again
WASHINGTON: The US Senate acquitted Donald Trump on Saturday in his second impeachment trial in a year, with fellow Republicans blocking conviction over the former president’s role in the deadly assault by his supporters on the US Capitol. The Senate vote of 57-43 fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict Trump on a charge of...
Trump acquitted, denounced in historic impeachment trial
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday of inciting the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that spared him the first-ever conviction of a current or former U.S. president but exposed the fragility of America’s democratic traditions and left a divided nation to come to...
