Germany hits million cases; Russia, India sign deal for vaccine

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ BERLIN: Germany, once a beacon of hope in Europe’s coronavirus nightmare, logged its one millionth case on Friday, while Russia signed up India to mass produce its controversial Sputnik vaccine. Although the virus spread is slowing thanks to weeks of tough restrictions, Europe remains at the heart of the pandemic, recording more cases than the United States in the past week. The pandemic is gaining strength fastest in Asia and Latin America, and is up by a worrying 113 percent over the week in Mexico. Germany had…

Armenia, Azerbaijan trade accusations of breaching Karabakh ceasefire

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations of new attacks on Saturday in breach of a ceasefire deal to end nearly two weeks of heavy fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The two sides agreed to implement the ceasefire from noon (0800 GMT) on Saturday, after 11 hours of talks in Moscow, but it took only minutes after the deadline for their forces to claim new attacks. An ethnic Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan, Karabakh broke from the country’s control in a war in the 1990s that killed some 30,000…

Iran fears regional war as fighting rages around Nagorno-Karabakh

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Iran’s president warned on Wednesday that fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces in the South Caucasus could trigger a regional war as the death toll rose on the 11th day of hostilities. More than 300 have now died in the renewed fighting in and around the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which under international law belongs to Azerbaijan but is populated and governed by ethnic Armenians. Azerbaijan says Azeri cities outside the conflict zone have also been attacked in the deadliest fighting in more than 25 years,…

Death toll rises to 39 as fighting between Armenia, Azerbaijan enters second day

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Armenian separatists in the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh said on Monday 15 more of its fighters have been killed in a flare-up of a territorial dispute, bringing the death toll to 39 as the fighting entered a second day. World leaders have urged a halt to the fighting between Azerbaijan and the Armenian rebels after clashes erupted on Sunday, raising the spectre of an all-out conflict that could draw in regional powers — Russia and Turkey. Ex-Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked since the early 1990s in a…

Mike Pompeo sets agenda for a new Cold War with China. Russia will be key

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ On the day his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was goading the world to rise up against the tyranny of Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump dialled his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the inclusion of Beijing in future talks on strategic arms control, oil security and Iran developments. According to diplomats based in Washington and Moscow, this was President Trump’s fifth call to President Putin in the past two months as Russian Federation is the key to holding a rampaging China accountable in…

First COVID-19 Vaccine Is Ready For Use, Claims Russia

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ On Tuesday, Russia claimed that the Covid-19 vaccine developed with the Russian Defense Ministry had been prepared for use and completed Phase 2 trials. The First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov said, “Russia’s first vaccine against the novel coronavirus infection, which was created by military specialists and scientists of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, is ready.” According to Russian News Agency TASS, the Defense Ministry announced on Monday that it had successfully completed clinical trials of the coronavirus vaccine on volunteers based on the…

Russian hackers targeting vaccine trials, say UK, US, Canada

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre on Thursday announced along with its counterparts in the United States and Canada that hackers based in Russia have been targetting research teams and organisations involved in developing a vaccine for coronavirus. The coordinated charge by the three countries identifies a group called APT29 (also known as ‘the Dukes’ or ‘Cozy Bear’) and concludes that the cyber group is “almost certainly part of the Russian intelligence services”. The UK centre released a report, revealing IP addresses and other details, adding that similar…

European Union reopens borders to 14 nations; US, Indian tourists among those barred

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The European Union announced Tuesday that it will reopen its borders to travelers from 14 countries, but most Americans have been refused entry for at least another two weeks due to soaring coronavirus infections in the U.S. Travelers from other big countries like Russia, Brazil and India will also miss out. As Europe’s economies reel from the impact of the coronavirus, southern EU countries like Greece, Italy and Spain are desperate to entice back sun-loving visitors and breathe life into their damaged tourism industries. More than 15…

‘Properly handle sensitive factors’: China tells India, Russia on bilateral ties

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Beijing on Tuesday said the tripartite grouping of Russia, India and China should maintain strategic autonomy, “properly handle” sensitive issues in bilateral ties and overall maintain a good relationship. Speaking at the Russia, India and China (RIC) virtual foreign ministers’ meeting on Tuesday, state councilor and minister, Wang Yi said the three countries “…should correctly treat and properly handle sensitive factors in bilateral relations and overall maintain a good relationship”. “Properly handle sensitive factors” in bilateral issues was the closest that Wang came in referring to the…