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Biden pledges to strengthen alliance with South Korea, press towards North Korea's denuclearisation after election victory

Oct 30, 2020

Biden pledges to strengthen alliance with South Korea, promises 'principled diplomacy' with North Korea

Oct 30, 2020

Students, Jamaat-e-Islami members hold protest, ask Pakistan government to end ties with France

Oct 30, 2020

4 dead, 152 injured in Turkey following 6.6-magnitude earthquake

Oct 30, 2020

Pakistan records over 1,000 new COVID-19 cases in single day

Oct 30, 2020

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US registers highest daily spike with 90,000 new COVID-19 cases

Oct 30, 2020

Washington [US], October 30 (ANI): The United States set a new record for a single day spike of COVID-19, with almost 90,000 new cases registered...

Ukraine reports 8,312 new COVID-19 cases, total tops 378,000

Oct 30, 2020

Kiev [Ukraine], October 30 (ANI/Xinhua): A total of 378,729 COVID-19 cases, with 7,041 deaths, have been registered in Ukraine as of Friday, while 155,026 patients...

6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Aegean Sea

Oct 30, 2020

Ankara [Turkey], October 30 (ANI/Xinhua): A 6.6-magnitude earthquake occurred on Friday in the Aegean Sea off Turkey's western province of Izmir, the Disaster and Emergency...

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South Korea's Prime Minister urges for COVID-19 caution ahead of Halloween weekend

Oct 30, 2020

Seoul [South Korea], October 30 (ANI/Sputnik): South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-Kyun has asked the government on Friday to ramp up counter-coronavirus efforts so that...

Hard to find greater a 'hypocrite' than Imran Khan: Analysts on Pak PM's silence on Uighur issue

Oct 30, 2020

Washington [US], October 30 (ANI): As Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan raised the issue of Islamophobia and attacked French President Emmanuel Macron over his remarks...

Kremlin stresses peacekeepers can only enter Karabakh if Armenia, Azerbaijan give consent

Oct 30, 2020

Moscow [Russia], October 30 (ANI/Sputnik): Peacekeepers can only enter Karabakh if both Armenia and Azerbaijan give their consent, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday had a meeting with Alice Guitton, France's Director-General of International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS)

Harsh Vardhan Shringla, French diplomat Alice Guitton discuss India-Pacific, regional security cooperation

Oct 30, 2020

Paris [France], October 30 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday had a meeting with Alice Guitton, France's Director-General of International Relations and Strategy...

Malaysia reports 799 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths

Oct 30, 2020

Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], October 30 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 799 new COVID-19 infections, the Health Ministry said on Friday, bringing the national total to 30,889.

Azerbaijan says 9 schoolchildren died after escalation in Karabakh - Education Minister

Oct 30, 2020

Baku [Azerbaijan], October 30 (ANI/Sputnik): Nine Azerbaijani schoolchildren have died since the outbreak of hostilities between Yerevan and Baku in the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh,...

New Zealand votes to legalise euthanasia for terminally-ill people

Oct 30, 2020

Wellington [New Zealand], October 30 (ANI/Sputnik): About 65.2 percent of New Zealand's population voted on Friday in favor of the End of Life Choice Act becoming law during the voluntary euthanasia referendum, national media reported.