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In a rare outing since Covid, Russian President Vladmir Putin to visit India on 6 Dec

₹5,000 crore with Russia for the manufacture of 7.5 lakh AK 203 assault rifles.

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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on new Covid variant: Will protect you and your family

COVID-19 variant of serious public health implications has been reported.

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More than 50 miners, rescuers dead after Siberian coal mine blast

MOSCOW - A devastating explosion in a Siberian coal mine Thursday left 52 miners and rescuers dead about 250 meters (820 feet) underground, Russian officials said.Hours after a methane gas explosion and fire filled the mine with toxic fumes, rescuers found 14 bodies but then were forced to halt the search for 38 others because of a buildup of methane and carbon monoxide gas from the fire.

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Even if you are fully vaccinated, continue wearing masks, says WHO amid new covid strain scare

#COVID19 pandemic. Vaccines save lives, but they do not fully prevent transmission. So please be careful and:Wear a mask. Keep distance. Avoid crowds. Open windows. Clean hands. pic.twitter.com/p2crxQvGuu

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Alec Baldwin accused of playing 'Russian roulette' on 'Rust' set by Gloria Allred as she announces new lawsuit

Attorney Gloria Allred reads names from a lawsuit filed today on the behalf of Mamie Mitchell, script supervisor on the film, "Rust" against actor/producer Alec Baldwin and other producers on the New Mexico set, in Los Angeles, California on November Baldwin was handed a Colt revolver by assistant director Dave Halls while rehearsing a scene for the indie-western.

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Global COVID-19 cases continue to climb

For the fourth week in a row, the rate of new global COVID-19 cases rose, mainly led by surges in Europe but also influenced by spikes in the Americas and Western Pacific countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly pandemic update.

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Russia rejects blame for space debris endangering 7 astronauts aboard ISS

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian officials on Tuesday rejected accusations that they endangered astronauts aboard the International Space Station by conducting a weapons test that created more than 1,500 pieces of space junk.U.S. officials on Monday accused Russia of destroying an old satellite with a missile in what they called a reckless and irresponsible strike.

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Russia has nearly 100K troops near border, Ukraine president says

Russian soldiers near Ukraine’s border and that Western countries had shared information about active Russian troop movements with Kyiv.“I hope the whole world can now clearly see who really wants peace and who is concentrating nearly 100,000 soldiers at our border,” he said in a video of a speech on Wednesday carried on his website.The Russian troop movements near the Ukrainian border have spurred fears of a possible attack. Moscow has dismissed such suggestions as inflammatory and complained about increasing activity in the region by the NATO transatlantic alliance.On Nov.

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Fifth COVID-19 surge tests European countries

As more European countries battle new COVID-19 surges, health officials are debating whether to reimpose strong restrictions, including the Netherlands, where advisors have recommended a new 2-week lockdown.

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Covid-19 vaccine: Hong Kong latest to approve Covaxin for emergency use

Covaxin. The health minister said the 96 countries include--Canada, the United States of America, Australia, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, and Switzerland.

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COVID-19 surges expand in Europe

Although some parts of Europe, especially eastern nations, have been in the grips of new spikes in COVID-19 activity over the past several weeks, nations like Denmark and France are now seeing impacts and taking steps to curb the spread.

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Wanted: A truly generous health cheque for underserved Indians

₹2,000 per capita, India’s public health expenditure remains one of the lowest among major economies in the world. Even a pandemic of the scale of covid has not moved the needle much.

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Biden takes aim at Putin following REvil ransomware charges, sanctions

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Monday took aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin following U.S. action targeting two suspected criminal hackers involved in a wave of ransomware attacks, including one that led to the temporary shutdown of the world’s largest meat processor and another that snarled businesses around the globe on Fourth of July weekend.Biden said the U.S.

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REvil ransomware attacks: US charges Ukrainian, Russian hackers, seizes $6.1M

WASHINGTON - Two suspected criminal hackers have been charged in the United States in connection with a wave of ransomware attacks, including one that led to the temporary shutdown of the world’s largest meat processor and another that snarled businesses around the globe on the Fourth of July weekend, U.S. officials said Monday.Attorney General Merrick Garland and other top officials announced charges against Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinskyi and Russian Yevgeniy Polyanin, alleging them to be part of the REvil ransomware gang.

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COP26: Obama criticizes Russia, China for 'lack of urgency' on climate

GLASGOW, Scotland - Barack Obama expressed confidence at U.N. climate talks Monday that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress, and faulted U.S.

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Pa. state employees who get vaccinated to get 5 paid days off

MOSCOW, RUSSIA NOVEMBER 1, 2021: A medical worker draws a dose into a syringe at a COVID-19 vaccination site opened in the left wing of the main entrance to the VDNKh Exhibition Centre. It receives citizens daily from 9am to 9pm, rapid testing availa HARRISBURG, Pa. - Gov.

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COVID-19 global death toll surpasses 5 million in under 2 years

FILE - Mourners embrace after planting a tree with the ashes of a victim lost to COVID-19 at the Paramo de Guerrero nature preserve near Cogua, Colombia, on June 27, 2021. Photographer: Nathalia Angarita/Bloomberg via Getty Images The staggering figure is almost certainly an undercount because of limited testing and people dying at home without medical attention, especially in poor parts of the world, such as India.Hot spots have shifted over the 22 months since the outbreak began, turning different places on the world map red.

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Russia considers using ‘Sputnik Light’ as booster against COVID-19

Russia will recommend using the domestically-made Sputnik Light vaccine against COVID-19 only as a booster for people who have already been vaccinated, Russian news agencies cited the health minister as saying on Saturday.Russia had previously promoted Sputnik Light, which comprises the first shot of its flagship two-shot Sputnik V, as an effective standalone vaccine as well as a booster that can be combined with non-Russian vaccines.“As the Delta variant is advancing, there will definitely be changes made today to the methodological recommendations on vaccinations where it will (say): only use ‘Sputnik Light’ for re-vaccination,” Health Minister Mikhail Murashko was quoted as saying by TASS.

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Russia to recommend using Sputnik Light only as booster shot against Covid-19

Sputnik Light vaccine against Covid-19 only as a booster for people who have already been vaccinated, Russian news agencies cited the health minister as saying on Saturday.

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Russia imposes nationwide paid holiday to curb Covid surge

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Russia imposes nationwide paid holiday to curb Covid cases

New coronavirus restrictions have come into effect across Russia as authorities seek to stem soaring infections and deaths in Europe's worst hit country by fatalities.

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Covid-19: Moscow shuts down as Russia sees record virus cases, deaths

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Ransomware group claims it hacked NRA amid spike in cyberattacks

RICHMOND, Va. - A ransomware gang believed to operate out of Russia says it hacked the National Rifle Association, the most powerful gun-rights group in the United States.The gang, which calls itself Grief, published a handful of what appear to be the NRA files on a dark web site. The files, reviewed by The Associated Press, relate to grants the NRA has awarded.

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Covid-19 cases and deaths on the rise again in Europe

Covid-19 infections and deaths are on the rise again in Europe, with Russia, Ukraine and Romania registering the highest fatalities on the continent, an AFP tally shows.

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System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian “happy” he was vaccinated after contracting COVID

System Of A Down‘s Serj Tankian has said that he’s “happy” he was vaccinated after testing positive for COVID-19 last week.The frontman’s diagnosis forced the band to postpone a pair of shows in Los Angeles at the weekend, both of which were alongside Korn, Helmet and Russian Circles. The gigs have been rescheduled to February 2022.Taking to social media today (October 25) to thank fans for their outpouring of well wishes, Tankian wrote: “I am overwhelmed and extremely grateful for the outpouring of love and concern from friends and strangers alike.

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What is a prop gun? On-set deaths involving them have happened before

Leonie Ashfield from Christie's auctioneers poses with a prop Walther PPK handgun from 'From Russia With Love' during promotion of a sale of weapons from James Bond films on Nov. 2, 2006 in London.

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COVID-19: 11 cases in Middlesex London, 13 cases in Lambton

The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) reported 11 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, though the tally increased by 12 to 14,382.Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 14,382 cases, of which 119 are active (an increase of four), 14,002 are recovered (an increase of four) and 245 people have died. Russia marks record number of COVID-19 deaths for 5th straight day The most recent death was reported Oct.

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Serj Tankian tests positive for COVID-19 forcing System Of A Down to postpone LA shows

System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the band to postpone this weekend’s shows in Los Angeles.The band were set to play at LA’s Banc Of California tonight and tomorrow (October 22 – 23) with Korn, Helmet and Russian Circles, but now the shows have been postponed to February next year.“It is with great regret that we must reschedule our Los Angeles performances to February 4th and 5th, 2022,” a statement posted to the band’s social media reads.“Despite multiple precautionary measures, Serj has unfortunately tested positive for [COVID-19]. We’re sorry to disappoint our amazing fans with this last minute news, as we could not wait to finally play for you.

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India’s 1 billion covid-19 vaccine doses: some inequities addressed, some remain

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Russia reports cases of more contagious Covid-19 variant

Russia has reported some Covid-19 infections with a new coronavirus variant believed to be even more contagious than the Delta one, the RIA news agency has reported.

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WHO says it continues to assess Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine

RDIF), which promotes Sputnik V abroad, said a group of WHO inspectors is due to visit Russia shortly "to round up all necessary inspections and paperwork on Sputnik V."

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Putin orders Russians stay off work for a week amid rising COVID-19 infections, deaths

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered most Russians to stay off work for a week starting later this month amid rising COVID-19 infections and deaths, and he strongly urged reluctant citizens to get vaccinated.The government coronavirus task force reported 1,028 deaths in the past 24 hours, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. That brought Russia's death toll to 226,353, by far the highest in Europe.Putin said he supports the Cabinet’s proposal to introduce a nonworking period starting Oct.

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Europe the lone region with rise in weekly COVID-19 cases, WHO says

LONDON (AP) - The World Health Organization said there was a 7% rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week, the only region in the world where cases increased.In its weekly assessment of the pandemic released late Tuesday, the U.N. health agency said there were about 2.7 million new COVID-19 cases and more than 46,000 deaths last week worldwide, similar to the numbers reported the previous week.WHO said the two regions with the highest rates of COVID-19 incidence were Europe and the Americas.

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Putin approves week-long Russian workplace shutdown as COVID-19 surges

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Putin expected to order Covid restrictions as cases surge

Russia has reported a record 1,028 Covid deaths in a single day, with President Vladimir Putin expected to introduce new nationwide restrictions in Europe's worst affected country.

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Russia plans new stay-at-home measures as Covid cases surge

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UK, Eastern Europe battle rising COVID

The United Kingdom's COVID-19 cases, which have been slowly rising, reached a 3-month high today, with countries in Eastern Europe, especially Russia, battling surges.

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Russian film crew lands after shoot onboard space station

MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 17, 2021: Soyuz MS-19 Mission crew members Oleg Novitsky (L back), Klim Shipenko (C facing the camera) and Yulia Peresild (top R) are pictured at the Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Moscow Region, during a cere MOSCOW - A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station.The capsule, descending under a red-and-white striped parachute after entering Earth’s atmosphere, landed upright in the steppes of Kazakhstan on schedule at 0435 GMT Sunday with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko aboard.Actress Peresild and film director Shipenko rocketed to the space station on Oct.

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Russia's daily COVID-19 death toll hovers near all-time high

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Russia hits record number of COVID-19 deaths amid surge in new cases

Russia on Thursday recorded the highest daily numbers of coronavirus infections and deaths since the start of the pandemic, a rapidly surging toll that has severely strained the nation’s health care system.The government’s coronavirus task force reported 31,299 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 986 deaths in the last 24 hours.

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Global COVID decline continues, except in Europe

COVID-19 cases continue to fall in most world regions, continuing a pattern that started in August, but Europe reported a modest increase, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its weekly pandemic update.

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White House to host global anti-ransomware meeting without Russia

WASHINGTON - Amid an epidemic of ransomware attacks, the U.S. is sitting down to talk cybersecurity strategy this week with 30 countries while leaving out one key player: Russia.The country that, unwittingly or not, hosts many of the criminal syndicates behind ransomware attacks was not invited to a two-day meeting starting Wednesday to develop new strategies to counter the threat.The virtual discussions will focus in part on efforts to disrupt and prosecute ransomware networks like the one that attacked a major U.S.

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Russian spies 'stole Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine data to make Putin's Sputnik jab'

Russia stole the formula for the AstraZeneca/Oxford jab and used it to make its own brand of vaccine, ministers have been told.Security services claim that they have proof one of Vladimir Putin's spies swiped the highly secretive data. They say they have proof that important information was snatched from the drugs firm, including the blueprint for the Covid jab.A similar technology is used in Russia's Sputnik jab and security teams are now certain that it was copied.President Vladimir Putin was accused of hacking the UK, US and Canadian bodies developing a Covid vaccine last year.

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Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over forecasted winds in Texas

Star Trek" actor William Shatner will be on board.RELATED: William Shatner says he's 'terrified' of upcoming Blue Origin space trip"Yes, it’s true; I’m going to be a ‘rocket man!’" the 90-year-old tweeted earlier this month. He added: "It’s never too late to experience new things."Shatner will become the oldest person to go to space.

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Govt allows export of Russia's Sputnik Light Covid-19 vaccine made in India

New Delhi: The government has permitted the export of Russia's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik Light domestically produced here as the jab has not yet been approved for emergency use in India, sources said on Sunday.

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Russia shatters COVID-19 death record as surge persists, killing 968 in a single day

Russia has recorded a new record-high daily death toll from COVID-19, continuing a persistent rise that has brought new records almost daily in October.The national coronavirus task force reported Saturday that 968 people in Russia died of COVID-19 over the past day — about 100 more daily deaths than were recorded in late September. The task force said more than 29,000 new infections also were confirmed in the past day.Authorities blame the steep rise on the country’s low vaccination rate.

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Covid-19 curve plateauing, yet next 3 months crucial

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0