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  • EAEU, Belt & Road to create new geopolitical configuration: Lavrov

    Date: 2019-09-26 10:42:30 GMT - Russia - World - SN:23 - ID:8119676

    MOSCOW, Sept 26 (MENA) - The further strengthening of ties between the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will help form a new geopolitical architecture in Eurasia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei ....

  • Moscow is Yereva’s strategic partner: Armenian PM

    Date: 2019-09-26 10:28:16 GMT - Russia - World - SN:22 - ID:8119673

    MOSCOW, Sept 26 (MENA) - Yerevan seeks to maintain good relations with all of its partners, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, TASS news agency reported on Thursday. "Russia is our ....

  • Ex-French President Jacques Chirac dies, aged 86

    Date: 2019-09-26 10:25:53 GMT - France - World - SN:21 - ID:8119778

    PARIS, Sept 26 (MENA) - The former French president, Jacques Chirac, has died "peacefully" at the age of 86, DW quoted his family as saying. The conservative politician led France between 1995 and 2007, despite suffering a stroke while in ....

  • Pakistan earthquake death toll rises to 37, over 500 injured

    Date: 2019-09-26 09:28:35 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:20 - ID:8119628

    ISLAMABAD, Sept 26 (MENA) - The death toll from Tuesday’s earthquake in Azad Jammu and Kashmir rose to 37, with more than 500 injured, Geo news reported. The epicenter of the 5.8-magnitude quake was near the Kashmiri city of Mirpur, roughly 20 ....

  • Earthquake shakes eastern Indonesia, kills at least 3

    Date: 2019-09-26 08:45:04 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:16 - ID:8119553

    JAKARTA, Sept 26 (MENA) - A strong earthquake Thursday killed at least three people and damaged a bridge, hospital and other buildings on one of Indonesia’s less populated islands, ِABC news reported. Parts of a building at an Islamic university ....

  • Japan, Russia FMs agree to advance peace treaty talks

    Date: 2019-09-26 08:10:41 GMT - Japan - World - SN:13 - ID:8119517

    TOKYO, Sept 26 (MENA) - Japan's newly-appointed Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov agreed on Wednesday to develop bilateral ties by advancing negotiations on a peace treaty to formally end World War II ....

  • Police arrest 16 over involvement with Daesh terrorists

    Date: 2019-09-26 07:41:50 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:10 - ID:8119502

    KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 (MENA) - The police have arrested 16 people for suspected involvement with Daesh terrorists, the Malaysian news agency Bernama reported Thursday. The principal assistant director of the Counter Terrorism Division (E8) of ....

  • Taliban militants suffer heavy casualties in failed attack on security posts in Paktika

    Date: 2019-09-25 13:38:47 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:46 - ID:8118620

    KABUL, Sept 25 (MENA) - The Afghan forces repulsed a Taliban attack on security posts in South-eastern Paktika province inflicting heavy casualties on the group’s fighters, reported Khaama Press news agency on Wednesday. The 203rd Thunder Corps ....

  • 10 civilians killed, wounded in Kandahar explosion

    Date: 2019-09-25 09:06:26 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:23 - ID:8118095

    KABUL, Sept 25 (MENA) - An explosion in southern Kandahar province killed at least four civilians, including a journalist and a child, Khaama Press news agency reported Wednesday. Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Interior ....

  • Pakistan earthquake death toll rises to 30, over 450 injured

    Date: 2019-09-25 08:21:57 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:20 - ID:8117992

    ISLAMABAD, Sept 25 (MENA) - The death toll from Tuesday’s earthquake in Azad Jammu and Kashmir rose to 30 with more than 450 injured, Geo news channel reported. The epicenter of the 5.8-magnitude quake was near the Kashmir city of Mirpur, ....

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