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  • Japan's Kono, Pompeo discuss N.Korea's projectiles

    Date: 2019-07-26 08:19:09 GMT - Japan - World - SN:12 - ID:8039717

    TOKYO, July 26 (MENA) - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have reaffirmed the close cooperation between their countries following North Korea's firing of projectiles, Japan's NHK reported. Kono and Pompeo ....

  • Pompeo says he would go to Tehran to take message to Iranians

    Date: 2019-07-25 22:12:10 GMT - USA - World - SN:86 - ID:8039565

    WASHINGTON, July 25 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said he would be willing to travel to Tehran to address the Iranian people about U.S. foreign policy as the Trump administration applies maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic to ....

  • UNGA chief mourns death of Tunisian president Essebsi

    Date: 2019-07-25 21:02:56 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:83 - ID:8039538

    NEW YORK, July 25 (MENA) - UN General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa on Thursday mourned the death of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi at the age of 92, ABC News reported. In her statement released on Thursday, Espinosa conveyed ....

  • Canadian PM mourns death of Tunisia's Essebsi

    Date: 2019-07-25 20:48:09 GMT - Canada - World - SN:81 - ID:8039534

    OTTAWA, July 25 (MENA) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday mourned the death of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi who breathed his last earlier in the day at the age of 92. In a statement, the Canadian premier said "Canada ....

  • 56 killed, wounded in back to back explosions in Afghanistan's Kabul

    Date: 2019-07-25 12:47:49 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:40 - ID:8038799

    KABUL, July 25 (MENA) - Three consecutive blasts in Kabul city left 11 people dead and 45 others wounded, Khaama Press Agency reported on Thursday, citing the Afghan Ministry of Public Health as saying. Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the Ministry ....

  • Taiwan: US Navy is free to sail through its strait

    Date: 2019-07-25 10:03:51 GMT - USA - World - SN:26 - ID:8038468

    WASHINGTON, July 25 (MENA) - Taiwan said Thursday the US Navy is free to sail through its strait after an American warship did so soon after Beijing warned against foreign interference in its relationship with the island, The Washington Post ....

  • Azerbaijani Air Force aircraft crashes into the sea

    Date: 2019-07-25 09:59:43 GMT - Azerbaijan - World - SN:25 - ID:8038410

    BAKU, July 25 (MENA) - A MiG-29 plane of the Azerbaijani Air Force has crashed during a training flight, a search operation to rescue the pilot is underway, the Russian news agency Tass reported on Thursday, quoting Azerbaijan’s Defense ....

  • Death toll from Kabul blasts rises to 10

    Date: 2019-07-25 09:59:30 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:24 - ID:8038380

    KABUL, July 25 (MENA) - At least 10 people, including five women and one child, were killed in three bombings that struck the Afghan capital earlier Thursday. Another 41 people were wounded in the attacks in Kabul, said Wahidullah Mayar, a ....

  • Puerto Rico governor expected to resign on August 2

    Date: 2019-07-25 07:49:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:18 - ID:8038251

    WASHINGTON, July 25 (MENA) - Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is expected to resign on August 2 in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced online chat that showed the governor and close advisers insulting women and mocking constituents ....

  • 7 killed in roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province

    Date: 2019-07-25 07:41:53 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:17 - ID:8038241

    KABUL, July 25 (MENA) - Seven civilians were killed as a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in Khogiani district of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday. Khaama Press quoted provincial official Attaullah Khogiani as saying that a ....

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