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World News in Brief: March 6

 
World News in Brief: March 6

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is at least 40 percent more lethal than seasonal flu, US news outlet Pharmaceutical Technology has reported.   

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday to discuss the Ukraine crisis, his spokesperson said.


* The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted a "reconnaissance satellite" development test on Saturday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Sunday.

* US President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday, the White House said. The call lasted for about 30 minutes, the White House added.

* France announced on Saturday a relatively minor cabinet reshuffle, with Jacqueline Gourault stepping down and being replaced in her role as Minister for 'Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Government' by Joel Giraud.

* Russian state gas company Gazprom GAZP.MM was shipping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine in the same volume of 109.5 million cubic metres per day as on Saturday, the Interfax news agency cited Gazprom as saying on Sunday.

* Turkey and Israel will discuss steps to improve cooperation during talks between the two countries' presidents next week in Ankara, the Turkish presidency said on Saturday, as the regional rivals work to repair long-strained ties.

* Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog aim to resolve a standoff over the origin of uranium particles found at old but undeclared sites by early June, they said in a joint statement, aiming to remove an obstacle to reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

* Burkina Faso's interim president Paul-Henri Damiba has approved a new government that includes the same defence minister as served under former president Roch Kabore before his ouster in a military coup, an official decree showed on Saturday.

* Sydney, Australia's most populous city that has been drenched in rain for days, braced for more heavy downpours on Sunday as the death toll from flooding across the country's east rose to 17.

* China reported 329 new confirmed coronavirus cases on the mainland on March 5, the national health authority said on Sunday, compared with 281 cases a day earlier. There were no new deaths, leaving the death toll unchanged at 4,636. As of March 5, mainland China had confirmed 110,868 cases.

* The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 870 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,667,542. The DOH said 144 more people died from COVID-19 complications, taking the death toll to 57,023.

* Italy reported 39,963 COVID-19 related cases on Saturday, against 38,095 the day before, the health ministry said, while the number of deaths fell to 173 from 210.

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