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  • 2 injured as Karachi-bound train derails near Toba Tek Singh

    Date: 2019-08-30 12:21:45 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:42 - ID:8083461

    ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (MENA) - At least 12 people were injured when three coaches of Karachi-bound Rehman Baba Express, along with their locomotive, derailed near Toba Tek Singh late Thursday night, Pakistan Today reported. According to details, the ....

  • Pakistani PM criticizes int'l community’s silence over Kashmir

    Date: 2019-08-30 11:01:59 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:40 - ID:8083255

    ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (MENA) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday addressed the 'Kashmir Hour' rally outside the PM Secretariat stressing that the international community remains silent when Muslims are being oppressed, Geo news ....

  • Special Forces kill, detain over 40 Taliban militants in Kabul, other provinces

    Date: 2019-08-30 09:45:07 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:24 - ID:8083224

    KABUL, Aug 30 (MENA)- The Afghan Special Forces killed or detained more than 40 Taliban militants during operations in Kabul and other provinces of Afghanistan, according to Khaama Press News Agency. Military sources said Friday that the Afghan ....

  • Russia, Belarus seek bolstering bilateral ties

    Date: 2019-08-30 09:28:47 GMT - Russia - World - SN:23 - ID:8083202

    MOSCOW, Aug 30 (MENA) - President Vladimir Putin and his Belarus counterpart Alexander Lukashenko mulled on Friday means to bolster bilateral relations and implement agreements between the two sides, according to a press release by the office of the ....

  • Iran oil tanker sought by US again says it will go to Turkey

    Date: 2019-08-30 09:05:46 GMT - Iran - World - SN:21 - ID:8083168

    TEHRAN, Aug 30 (MENA) - An Iranian oil tanker pursued by the US on Friday again listed its destination as Turkey, further obscuring where its 2.1 million barrels of oil will go, ABC News reported. The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as ....

  • Haiti's president says to serve out term despite rising violence

    Date: 2019-08-29 21:35:55 GMT - Haiti - World - SN:72 - ID:8082903

    PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haiti's president says he will serve out his term despite rising violence, poor economic performance and months of protests over unresolved allegations of corruption in his predecessor's administration. President Jovenel Moise ....

  • Trump: US will maintain presence in Afghanistan even if deal reached with Taliban

    Date: 2019-08-29 15:49:31 GMT - USA - World - SN:59 - ID:8082571

    WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States would maintain a force in the area of Afghanistan even if Washington reaches an agreement with the Taliban to end the 18-year war that began after the Sept. 11 ....

  • Toll rises to 28 in Mexico bar fire attack

    Date: 2019-08-29 08:39:22 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:18 - ID:8081614

    MEXICO CITY, Aug 29 (MENA) - Gunmen burst into a Mexican bar in a hail of bullets and killed at least 28 people as they trapped revelers inside and started a raging fire, according to officials. Many of the dead were dancers who worked there, ....

  • UK Boris Johnson set to suspend parliament

    Date: 2019-08-28 10:52:47 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:30 - ID:8080225

    LONDON, Aug 28 (MENA) - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has asked the Queen to suspend parliament from mid-September until just two weeks before the 31 October deadline for Britain to leave the European Union, The Independent reported ....

  • Britain alone will be to blame for no-deal Brexit: EU tells Johnson

    Date: 2019-08-27 21:47:04 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:78 - ID:8079781

    BRUSSELS, Aug 27 (MENA) - Britain will be solely to blame if it crashes out of the EU in a chaotic "no-deal" Brexit, the bloc told Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tuesday in the latest clash between Brussels and London, France 24 reported. With the ....

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