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  • S. Korea announces conditional delay in terminating int'l pact with Japan

    Date: 2019-11-22 13:16:41 GMT - Japan - World - SN:25 - ID:8199205

    TOKYO, Nov 22 (MENA) - South Korea has decided conditionally delay its earlier plan to terminate a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan by midnight Friday, following 11th-hour negotiations with its neighbor, the presidential office ....

  • German amb.: Turkey should explain charges against arrested lawyer

    Date: 2019-11-22 13:10:30 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:24 - ID:8199199

    ANKARA, Nov 22 (MENA) - The arrest of a Turkish lawyer hired by the German embassy is "incomprehensible" and he is pressing Ankara to clarify the charges, Euronews quoted German ambassador to Turkey as saying. "This arrest is incomprehensible for ....

  • Russia’s FSB detains two ringleaders, seven members of Hizb ut-Tahrir

    Date: 2019-11-22 10:38:40 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:8198974

    MOSCOW, Nov 22 (MENA) - Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained two ringleaders and seven members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization outlawed in Russia, who were involved in creating clandestine networks, TASS news agency reported on ....

  • Two US airmen killed in “aircraft mishap” in Oklahoma state

    Date: 2019-11-21 19:07:30 GMT - USA - World - SN:73 - ID:8198594

    WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (MENA) - Two airmen were killed in an “aircraft mishap” on Thursday at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma, Fox News reported according to military officials. The Air Force said in a news release that the accident occurred around ....

  • US Speaker:Evidence against Trump is clear, he used office for personal gain

    Date: 2019-11-21 18:45:42 GMT - USA - World - SN:71 - ID:8198564

    WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (MENA) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said there was clear evidence that Donald Trump used his office for his own personal gain and undermined national security, as lawmakers continue their impeachment inquiry into ....

  • 1,106 children killed in Syria this year - UNICEF

    Date: 2019-11-21 18:05:53 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:67 - ID:8198422

    GENEVA, Nov 21 (MENA) - This year, 1,106 children were killed in Syria fighting – the highest number of children killed in a single year since the start of the war, Fran Equiza, UNICEF representative in Syria, warned. With more than 5 million ....

  • Moscow on Pompeo's remark: US doing everything possible for Iranian to suffer

    Date: 2019-11-21 18:05:32 GMT - Russia - World - SN:66 - ID:8198398

    MOSCOW, Nov 21 (MENA) – Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has slammed the recent comments by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the Iranian protests as "hypocritical", adding that Washington is one of the reasons that the ....

  • Japan urges Iran to abide by nuclear agreement

    Date: 2019-11-21 17:58:41 GMT - Japan - World - SN:64 - ID:8198392

    TOKYO, Nov 21 (MENA) - Japan's foreign minister has urged his Iranian counterpart to halt action that would undermine the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers, NHK reported on Thursday. Toshimitsu Motegi held a telephone ....

  • Pope Francis calls for protecting dignity, rights of migrants, refugees

    Date: 2019-11-21 13:51:46 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:45 - ID:8198002

    BANGKOK, Nov 21 (MENA) - Pope Francis called for migrants to be made welcome and women and children to be protected from exploitation, abuse and enslavement as he began a busy two days of activities in Thailand on Thursday, the Bangkok Post ....

  • US mulls withdrawing 4,000 soldiers from S.Korea

    Date: 2019-11-21 08:15:44 GMT - south korea - World - SN:17 - ID:8197355

    SEOUL, Nov 21 (MENA) - The United States is considering a significant cut in the number of troops in South Korea if Seoul does not contribute more to the cost of deployment, South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported Thursday. The United States ....

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