January 23, 2021 - 16:56 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - There is some evidence that a new coronavirus variant first identified in southeast England carries a higher risk of death .than the original strain, the British government’s chief scientific adviser said Friday -- though he stressed that the data is uncertain, The Associated Press ...
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January 23, 2021 - 16:27 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Hong Kong's government declared its first lockdown on Saturday, January 23, ordering thousands of people to stay in their homes as authorities tackled an ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus in one of the city's poorest and most densely populated districts, Deutsche Welle reports. T...
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January 23, 2021 - 16:02 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday, January 22 to block the accounts of any users in Italy whose age it could not verify following the death of a 10-year-old girl who had been using the Chinese-owned app, Reuters reports. Owned by China’s ByteDance...
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January 23, 2021 - 15:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Calvert Journal has published an article about how Azerbaijan's art scene appears to be concealing something darker – a deeply nepotistic environment which routinely suppresses dissident voices while crafting an international image of Azerbaijan as a free, art-loving nation. On...
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January 23, 2021 - 14:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A drone manufacturing plant started operations on Friday, January 22 in Turkey's capital Ankara, Anadolu Agency reports. Lapis Havacilik, a Turkish aviation company, develops unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones. It was established in 2015. The firm's 3,500-squa...
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January 23, 2021 - 14:08 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The SpaceX Transporter-1 mission set to launch on Saturday, January 23 will put 133 commercial and government spacecraft, as well as 10 more Starlink satellites, in orbit. SpaceX says that’s “the most spacecraft ever deployed on a single mission” — the previous record holder, an In...
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January 23, 2021 - 12:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has completed the investigation into the high-profile Georgia-Azerbaijan border case and now the process will continue in the court, Agenda.ge reports. Part of the famous complex of David Gareja is located on the Azerbaijan–Georgia border and has be...
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January 22, 2021 - 18:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has tested positive for Covid-19, the Spanish club announced Friday, January 22, AFP reports. The positive test comes a day before Madrid travel to Alaves in La Liga seeking to bounce back from an embarrassing midweek Copa del Rey exit. "Real Madr...
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January 22, 2021 - 14:33 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Scientists are increasingly concerned about a new variant of Covid-19 that has emerged in South Africa, Vox reports. There’s evidence from several small, and not-yet-peer-reviewed, studies that mutations in the South Africa variant — known as 501Y.V2 and already present in at least...
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January 22, 2021 - 10:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Bitcoin wavered on Friday, January 22 and was heading toward its sharpest weekly drop since September, as worries over regulation and its frothy rally drove a pullback from recent record highs, Reuters reports. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency fell more than 5% to an almost ...
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