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  • 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, ....

  • Bomb attack on police bus in southern Turkey injures 5: Turkish media

    Date: 2019-09-25 07:02:09 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:12 - ID:8117938

    ANKARA, Sept 25 (MENA) - A bomb attack hit a bus carrying police in the southern Turkish province of Adana on Wednesday morning and some people were wounded, security sources said. CNN Turk broadcast video of a badly damaged bus surrounded by ....

  • China launches new satellite for environment detection

    Date: 2019-09-25 06:14:11 GMT - China - World - SN:7 - ID:8117891

    BEIJING, Sept 25 (MENA) - China sent a new satellite into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported. The Yunhai-1 02 satellite, launched on a Long March-2D ....

  • House launches formal impeachment inquiry into Trump

    Date: 2019-09-25 05:38:37 GMT - USA - World - SN:5 - ID:8117858

    WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (MENA) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over reports that he pressured a foreign leader in an effort to target a political rival, according to CNN. "Today, ....

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