Blinken stresses countering ‘ISIL and Daesh’ in Bangladesh

The U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken has remarked about Islamic terrorist groups like ISIL and Daesh can potentially take root in Bangladesh in a U.S. Congressional hearing on his recent rebalance visit to the sixth Asia Pacific region held on Friday as questioned by the House Small Business Committee Chair and State of Ohio’s first congressional district representative from the Republican Party, Steven Joseph Chabot. 

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Covid-19: another 56 dead in Ontario, but hospitalizations are still dropping

TORONTO – The total number of hospitalizations for Covid-19 in Ontario falls, but the number of victims remains high: today 56 were registered (a boy under the age of 19 also died during the weekend in Toronto), bringing the total deaths in Ontario, since the beginning of the pandemic, to 10,968. On the other hand, hospitalizations drop – we said – to 3,797, compared to 4,026 on Saturday, even if it should be remembered that not all hospitals provide the data on weekends. There was a slight increase in the number of beds occupied in intensive care, from 600 on Saturday to 604 today. 

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Addio al giornalista Walter Ciccione, emigrato in Argentina nel 1950

L’AQUILA – “Siamo spiacenti di comunicare la scomparsa di Walter nel pomeriggio di lunedì 17 gennaio a seguito del coronavirus. Siamo profondamente grati per tutti i messaggi e il sostegno ricevuto in questi giorni. In mezzo al dolore è gratificante sapere che tante persone lo volevano e quanto! Speciali saluti dal cuore alla amata comunità italiana dell’Argentina, che ha tanto amato. Familia Ciccione”. 

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কোভিড ফান্ড তসরুফ ‘অস্বীকার’ করেছেন অলিম্পিয়ান অ্যালিসন বেভার

গত মঙ্গলবার শর্ট ট্র্যাক স্পিড স্ক্যাট চ্যাম্পিয়নশীপে দুইবারের সাবেক টিম ইউএসএ উইন্টার অলিম্পিয়ান ও প্যানসেলভেনিয়া অঙ্গরাজ্যের বার্কস কাউন্টির অধিবাসী অ্যালিসন বেভার যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের সল্ট লেক সিটি কোর্টে তার বিরুদ্ধে আনীত ফেডারেল চার্জসমূহ অস্বীকার করেছেন। 

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Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of January 22, 2022, at 5:15 pm EST.

On Saturday, health officials in Russia logged 57,212 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 11.0 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 90.5% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 681 Covid-related deaths for a total of 325,433 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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