0204 GMT January 17, 2021
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By Dedo Baranshamaje & Katie Bunten-Wamaru*
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Fighting is still going on in several parts of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and almost 2.3 million people, or nearly half of the population, need aid, a UN report said.
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US President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law a $2.3-trillion pandemic aid and spending package, restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a federal government shutdown in a crisis of his own making.
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US President-elect Joe Biden is pushing Congress to approve billions of dollars in emergency COVID-19 assistance before he takes office, saying in a meeting on Friday with the top Democrats in the House and Senate that such a package should be approved during the lame-duck session.
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President Hassan Rouhani expressed Iran’s readiness to send relief and medical aid to Turkey after a strong earthquake hit the country’s western city of Izmir on Friday afternoon.
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The International Monetary Fund approved new emergency aid for 28 of the world's poorest countries to help them alleviate their debt and better cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Iran shipped a second consignment of humanitarian supplies to Kyrgyzstan to help the Central Asian country deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
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Lebanese capital reeling from ‘apocalyptic’ blast as deaths top 100
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European leaders on Tuesday agreed a massive aid package for their pandemic-ravaged economies.
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Head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society Karim Hemmati said that international aid given to the organization has been exempted from US sanctions.
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South Korea's Finance Ministry said Friday it has approved $75.5 million in health care aid for 13 nations to better combat the coronavirus pandemic.
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Venezuela said on Monday that a flight carrying humanitarian aid for the coronavirus pandemic had arrived from Iran, in another sign that ties between the Islamic Republic and the South American country – both targets of US sanctions – are strengthening.
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has sent its fifth and largest shipment of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) items to Iran to help the country in its fight against the novel coronavirus, the organization said in a statement.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said on Monday the United States’ officials are offering medical aid to Iran while their country’s health sector is in dire need of medical equipment amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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