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China launches its first unmanned mission to Mars – Arab News
WENCHANG, China: China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday in its first independent mission to another planet, in a display of its technological prowess and ambition to join an elite club of space-faring nations. China’s largest carrie…
WASHINGTON: For the second day running, the US on Friday recorded more than 70,000 new coronavirus cases and more than 1,000 deaths in a 24-hour period, according to a tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University.
The worlds hardest-hit country registered 73,795 new cases of COVID-19 with 1,157 additional deaths, the Baltimore-based universitys real-time tracker indicated at 8:30 p.m. (0030 GMT Saturday).
That brings the country to a total of 4.1 million infections, which have resulted in 145,…
