Xinhua world news summary at 1600 GMT, Nov. 27

MOSCOW– Russia has no plans to invade Ukraine as Washington fabricated, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Naryshkin said Saturday. The allegation was “malicious propaganda” by the U.S. Department of State, which is aimed at pushing Kiev to escalate the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Naryshkin told a Russian TV program. The exercise, which…

LONDON — Two cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in Britain, British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said Saturday.

Javid said the UK Health Security Agency had detected cases in Chelmsford and in Nottingham. (Britain-COVID-19-Variant)

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MOSCOW — Russia has no plans to invade Ukraine as Washington fabricated, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Naryshkin said Saturday.

The allegation was “malicious propaganda” by the U.S. Department of State, which is aimed at pushing Kiev to escalate the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Naryshkin told a Russian TV program. (Russia-Ukraine-Ties)

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KIEV — The Ukrainian forces have conducted staff exercise at the frontier with Belarus, as a part of the operation “Polissya” that is aimed at preventing a migrant crisis, the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) of Ukraine said on Saturday.

The exercise, which started on Nov. 23, was conducted by the SBGS together with the National Guard, the National Police, the Armed Forces and other law enforcement units of Ukraine. (Ukraine-Exercise)

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ISLAMABAD — Two soldiers were killed in a check post attack in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, an army statement said on Saturday.

The terrorists, whose identities were not revealed by the statement released by the military’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations, targeted the check post in North Waziristan district of the province, located along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. (Pakistan-Soldiers) Enditem