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Environmental damage caused by Russia’s invasion reached $57B --Minister
Date: 2023-09-17 18:07:31 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:58 - ID:10349518
KIEV, Sept 17 (MENA) - Damage to the environment caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has reached $57 billion. Ukrainian Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets stated this at a meeting of the ....
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Jordanian king asserts importance of developing ties with Kosovo
Date: 2023-09-17 17:38:41 GMT - Jordan - World - SN:55 - ID:10349486
AMMAN/NEW YORK, Sept 17 (MENA) - King Abdullah II of Jordan Sunday met with the President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani during the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The discussions centered on enhancing ....
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Canada approves $24 million in aid to Ukraine
Date: 2023-09-17 17:27:02 GMT - Canada - World - SN:54 - ID:10349430
OTTAWA, Sept 17 (MENA) - Canada is joining a three-month-old partnership with several key allies to send air defence missiles to Ukraine, local media reported. The country's Defence Minister Bill Blair announced Canada's $24 million contribution ....
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Belarusian president: There will be no war on the territory of Belarus
Date: 2023-09-17 17:15:29 GMT - Belarus - World - SN:52 - ID:10349466
MINSK, Sept 17 (MENA) - There will be no war on the territory of Belarus today. It is impossible, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the patriotic forum "We are Belarusians!" dedicated to the Day of People's Unity in Minsk on ....
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Guterres urges int'l community to move towards multipolar world
Date: 2023-09-17 13:59:25 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:39 - ID:10348836
NEW YORK, Sept 17 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres upheld the need for strong, effective multilateral institutions as the international community moves to “a multipolar world”, in his address to their summit in Havana, Cuba, according ....
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Ukraine: Grain storage damaged in Russia’s missile attack on Odesa region
Date: 2023-09-17 10:33:23 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:27 - ID:10348793
KIEV, Sept 17 (MENA) - Russian troops attacked the Odesa region with missiles and drones on Sunday, inflicting heavy damage on a grain storage facility and farmlands, Ukrinform news agency quoted a report by Odesa Regional Military Administration as ....
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Greek PM says his country experienced serious wildfires followed by extended floods
Date: 2023-09-17 10:16:15 GMT - Greece - World - SN:25 - ID:10348772
ATHENS, Sept 17 (MENA) - Greece was faced with an unprecedented situation. In a period of two weeks it experienced serious wildfires followed by extended floods, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the beginning of his speech at the 87th ....
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North Korea's Kim, Russian defense min. discuss military coop., int'l affairs
Date: 2023-09-17 10:03:19 GMT - Russia - World - SN:22 - ID:10348699
MOSCOW, Sept 17 (MENA) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in Vladivostok and discussed cooperation and exchanges between the armed forces of the two countries and international affairs, TASS news agency ....
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UN calls for doubling humanitarian assistance for 75% of Yemen's inhabitants
Date: 2023-09-17 09:58:12 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:20 - ID:10348677
NEW YORK, Sept 17 (MENA) - The United Nations (UN) and international non-governmental organizations called for doubling humanitarian aid to help more than 21.6 people, nearly 75% of Yemenis, according to a statement by the UN News on Yemen ....
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Ukraine: Kherson region comes under fire 77 times, civilian injured
Date: 2023-09-17 09:37:58 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:19 - ID:10348692
KIEV, Sept 17 (MENA) - Russian troops attacked the Kherson region 77 times and fired 334 projectiles, Kherson Regional Military Administration Head Oleksandr Prokudin was quoted by Ukrinform news agency as saying on Sunday. According to ....