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UK man pleads guilty to manslaughter of 39 migrants

AFAQ NEWS A British lorry driver pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people on Friday in the case surrounding the discovery of dead Vietnamese migrants in a lorry container last October. Ronan Hughes, 40, of Co Armagh in Northern Ireland, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court in London. He was previously charged with …

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US intercepts 3 groups of Russian planes off Alaska

AFAQ NEWS The US intercepted three groups of Russian aircraft off the Alaskan coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) announced Friday. The US F-22 stealth jet fighters supported by KC-135 air refuelers intercepted the groups of Tupolev Tu-142 prop planes, the joint US-Canadian command said in a statement. The Russian aircraft had “loitered” …

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Spain breaks pandemic record with over 9,700 new cases

AFAQ NEWS Spain has registered its highest single-day tally of coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic, with 9,779 more COVID-19 cases reported on Friday. The figure was slightly higher than Thursday’s record tally. Spain’s previous peak came in late March, though testing at that time was mainly limited to very sick patients. Over …

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17-year-old charged for shootings amid Kenosha protests

AFAQ NEWS US prosecutors charged 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse on Thursday in the fatal shooting of two protesters and the wounding of a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin during demonstrations over the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black father of five, by a white police officer. The lakeside city has been rocked by violent unrest over police …

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Trump formally accepts renomination, slams Biden

AFAQ NEWS US President Donald Trump formally accepted his party’s renomination for president Thursday evening, vowing that another four years with him in office would leave the US with a “bright future.” Addressing the Republican National Convention on its final night from the White House, and in so doing again breaking with a tradition of …

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University Hospital releases statement on two confirmed coronavirus cases

Afaq News The Jordan University Hospital stated that one of its employees, who tested positive for the COVID-19 earlier, had been on vacation but that after she came into work she displayed symptoms of the disease, prompting her to undergo a PCR test. In a statement on Thursday, the hospital administration said that the competent …

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Deir Alla: civil society institution closed following confirmed coronavirus case

Afaq News A civil society institution operating in the Deir Alla district was closed after an employee tested positive for the COVID-19 on Thursday. The Governor of Balqa Nayef Hajaya told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the woman was transferred to a quarantine facility in the Dead Sea area, noting that the investigation teams …

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Tourism minister briefs Venezuelan counterpart on anti-Covid-19 measures

Afaq News Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Majd Shweikeh, briefed Venezuelan Minister of Tourism and Foreign Trade Felix Plasencia, on Jordan’s experience in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic in the tourism sector. Held via teleconferencing, Shweikeh reviewed the government’s measures to support the tourism sector and protect rights of its workers and facilities, through banking …

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