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  • Russia’s military death toll in Ukraine up to 368,460

    Date: 2024-01-12 08:21:46 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:12 - ID:10530123

    KIEV, Jan 12 (MENA) – The Ukrainian Defense Forces have killed 840 Russian forces over the past 24 hours, Ukrinform quoted the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces as saying. In total, Russian losses amounted to 368,460 since February 24, ....

  • Zelensky, Latvia’s PM Silina discuss continued aid to Ukraine

    Date: 2024-01-12 08:14:39 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:10 - ID:10530141

    KIEV, Jan 12 (MENA) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met during his official visit to Latvia with the country’s Prime Minister, Evika Silina. That’s according to the President’s Office, Ukrinform reported. The Head of State ....

  • US to send general, top State Department officials to Ecuador

    Date: 2024-01-12 08:11:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:9 - ID:10530034

    WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (MENA) – Senior US officials will visit Ecuador in the coming weeks to explore with Ecuadorian counterparts ways to work together more effectively to confront the threat posed by transnational criminal organizations, the US ....

  • Australia supports US and UK airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen

    Date: 2024-01-12 07:10:46 GMT - Australia - World - SN:5 - ID:10530032

    CANBERRA, Jan 12 (MENA) - Australia has supported the US and UK militaries as they launched more than a dozen airstrikes against sites used by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, The Guardian reported. The US president, Joe Biden, confirmed the ....

  • Biden: Strikes on Houthi sites 'direct response' to rebels' Red Sea attacks

    Date: 2024-01-12 06:53:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:4 - ID:10530027

    WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden said strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen a direct response to rebels' Red Sea attacks. "Today, at my direction, US military forces — together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, ....

  • Afghanistan hit by three earthquakes in less than 24 hrs

    Date: 2024-01-12 06:40:16 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:2 - ID:10530018

    KABUL, Jan 12 (MENA) - A new earthquake hit Afghanistan, hours after an earthquake of magnitude 4.4 on the Richter Scale hit the Hindukush region of Afghanistan in the early hours of Friday. According to the National Center for Seismology, the ....

  • Moscow to see Ecuador's transfer of Russian weapons to US as unfriendly move – amb.

    Date: 2024-01-11 22:47:00 GMT - Russia - World - SN:86 - ID:10529892

    MOSCOW, Jan 11 (MENA) – Moscow is probing into reports that Ecuador is going to transfer Russian military equipment to the United States, Russia’s ambassador to Ecuador Vladimir Sprinchan has said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel. "We are making ....

  • Russia: Agreement with Ukraine on international road transport finalized

    Date: 2024-01-11 22:46:37 GMT - Russia - World - SN:85 - ID:10529891

    MOSCOW, Jan 11 (MENA) – The agreement between Russia and Ukraine on international road transport, signed in Kiev on March 21, 1995, was terminated on December 17, 2023, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. Earlier, the Ukrainian ....

  • China launches commercial Gravity-1 rocket from sea

    Date: 2024-01-11 08:27:19 GMT - China - World - SN:13 - ID:10528658

    BEINJING, Jan 11 (MENA) - China on Thursday sent a sea-launched Gravity-1 (YL-1) carrier rocket into space, sending three satellites into the planned orbit, according to Xinhua. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center launched the commercial rocket ....

  • 213 dead, 52 missing in Japan's quake-hit Ishikawa prefecture

    Date: 2024-01-11 08:22:48 GMT - Japan - World - SN:12 - ID:10528655

    TOKYO, Jan 11 (MENA) - The death toll rose to 213 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa on Thursday, after a series of strong quakes of up to 7.6 magnitude jolted the prefecture and its vicinity, local media reported. A total of 52 ....

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