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Cuba to host Colombia peace talks with ELN rebels

Date: 2018-05-05 20:45:24 GMT - Colombia - World - SN:67 - ID:7385218

BOGOTA, May 5 (MENA) – Colombia's government and its last major rebel movement have agreed to continue peace talks in Cuba after Ecuador last month withdrew as host for the negotiations, Fox News reported on Saturday. Peace talks with the ....

Cairo airport takes intensive preparations for Umrah season

Date: 2018-05-05 20:08:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:66 - ID:7385156

CAIRO, May 5 (MENA) - Authorities of the Cairo International Airport are taking intensive measures in preparation for the next Umrah season of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. The procedures come under directives to the airport's top officials ....

Turki Al al-Sheikh declines Zamalek's honorary presidency

Date: 2018-05-05 19:46:50 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:65 - ID:7385100

CAIRO, May 5 (MENA) - Head of the Saudi General Sports Authority Turki Al al-Sheikh on Saturday apologized not to accept Zamalek's honorary presidency. In a statement, Al-Sheikh's office said the Saudi official is a fan of Al Ahly and its ....

Gas explosion kills 6 miners in southwest Pakistan

Date: 2018-05-05 19:44:21 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:64 - ID:7385155

ISLAMABAD, May 5 (MENA) - A government official has said that a methane gas explosion in a coal mine killed at least six miners in southwest Pakistan on Saturday, Fox News reported. Senior government official Javed Anwar said eleven coal miners ....

ICRC condemns shooting of paramedic by Israeli troops

Date: 2018-05-05 19:43:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:63 - ID:7385148

GAZA CITY, May 5 (MENA) - The International Committee Of The Red Cross (ICRC) expressed its deep sorrow over Saturday's incident in which a Palestinian Red Crescent Society paramedic was shot and injured by Israeli troops while providing emergency ....

28,024 social housing units are currently set up in Obour -- minister

Date: 2018-05-05 19:37:04 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:62 - ID:7385146

CAIRO, May 5 (MENA) - Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly visited Saturday Obour to inspect a housing project in the city. Madbouly said that the social housing project in the city includes 28,024 units; 2104 units have been finished, while 25,920 ....

S. Korea urges int'l support for inter-Korean efforts to denuke

Date: 2018-05-05 19:33:31 GMT - south korea - World - SN:61 - ID:7385149

MANILA, May 5 (MENA) - South Korea's Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon asked Asian and Pacific leaders on Saturday to lend support for the implementation of last week's inter-Korean peace agreement, Yonhap News Agency quoted his office as saying. He ....

NASA's Insight spacecraft starts 6-month journey to Mars

Date: 2018-05-05 19:01:08 GMT - USA - World - SN:60 - ID:7385103

NEW YORK, May 5 (MENA) - NASA has launched a spacecraft to land on Mars and explore the mysterious insides of the red planet as it will take more than six months for the spacecraft to reach Mars and start its unprecedented geologic ....

6 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces in Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-05-05 19:00:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:7385106

GAZA CITY, May 5 (MENA) - Six Palestinians were injured including a medic when Israeli forces opened fire at a number of Palestinian youths in eastern Maghazi camp in central Gaza Strip. In statements on Saturday, medical sources said one of the ....

Russian army fosters 10 jets by Kinzhal air-launched missiles

Date: 2018-05-05 18:58:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:58 - ID:7385102

MOSCOW, May 5 (MENA) - Ten MiG-31 fighter jets fitted with the air-launched Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missile are on test combat duty, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov was quoted by TASS news agency on Saturday. "It is a ....